Although, hosting a website costs a lot of money, but in this article, I’ll discuss some recommended free web hosting platforms for you as a new blogger. However, not all these are completely free in terms of hosting services, but they are “almost-free”.
Without further rambling, let’s get to the list of the best free web hosting for you as new blogger.
a). Hostinger:
This top-notch hosting company was launched in 2004 and as a large hosting company with branches across the globe. Its hosting services feature VPS hosting, shared hosting, and a website builder.
Features include:
- Easy website builder
- WordPress auto installer
- Email account hosting
- Excellent customer service/247
- Disk space: 10gb
- Bandwidth: 100gb
- Database: proprietary
- Cpanel: proprietary
- Full features hosting at almost free cost ($0.99/mo)
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b). Wix:
Wix is perfect for you as a new blogger because of its outstanding features. Although it is a free web hosting platform, however, it takes control of your website and displays the ads you don’t want to see.
Features include:
- Free website builder
- Free template
- Online store
- Disk Space: 500mb
- Bandwidth: 500mb
- Database: proprietary
- Cpanel: proprietary.
c). WordPress.com
This is a free hosting platform that hosts your blog on WordPress, in a WordPress manner. Though, different from the self-hosted and more professional counterpart, WordPress.org; WordPress.com offers free web hosting that gives you these:
Features
- WordPress Subdomain, (yourwebsite.wordpress.com)
- Grants you access to free templates,
- 3gb worth of storage.
d). Weebly
Weebly is another top-notch free web hosting platform that comes with an intuitive drag and drop builder; and free templates. Relatively suitable for a new and low-budget web owner.
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Features:
- Free website builder
- Free SSL security
- Ads free hosting
- Mobile app builder
- Disk space: 500mb
- Bandwidth: unknown
- Database: proprietary
- Cpanel: proprietary
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e) 000Webhost
This free web hosting platform is known for its efficiency in providing top notch hosting service suitable for your small website. It is free, displays no ads, and helps you save money to do other stuff to your website.
Features include
- Domain hosting: Yes
- Email accounts: up to 5
- Website: 1
- MySQL Database
- Bandwidth: 100gb
- Disk space: 1.5gb
- Cpanel: Yes
- FTP: Yes
f). InfinityFree
Although, this is a new hosting company which boasts of 300,000 users. It offers it customers with unlimited features. However, as unlimited as it might be, you’ll surely experience some obscure problems with the service.
Features Includes:
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- Free SSL certificate
- No Front end ads
- Free cloudfare CDN
- 1 FTP account
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Unlimited Disk space
- 400 MySQL Databases
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g). Free Hosting EU
This free web hosting platform has one outstanding feature that most free hosting platforms do not provide. It is the easy to understand control panel. You get to manage your website and manipulate things for free.
Features include
- Bandwidth: 4gb per month
- Disk space: 200mb
- No forced ads
- 1 MySQL Database
- 1 Website hosting
- Cpanel
- Email account hosting
- FTP
- Php Installer: No
- NET Support: No
- SSL support: No
h). UHostFull
This is an easy to operate platform that allows you to create a website with its builder in less than 10 minutes. It is known as that free web hosting platform that gurantees up to 99% uptime with unlimited server space, and an unlimited bandwidth.
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Features
- Bandwidth: 1000gb
- Disk Space: 1000gb
- MySQL Database: 2
- Email accounts: 2
- Website: 1
- Cpanel available (WordPress auto-installer)
- FTP: Yes
- Hosting: Yes
- Free Backup support.
Almost-free (Cheapest) and Reliable Hosting Providers
Having talked about the free web hosting platforms you can host your website or blog, let’s talk about the cheapest ones you can afford instead of free. These are highly recommended if you’re really serious about your website because, as you know, there is no such thing as “free”; you’ll surely experience some limitations or obscure problems. But with any of these, you get the best for your website.
i) BlueHost:
This is arguably the largest hosting platform in the world. It is officially recommended by WordPress. It is known to provide one of the best hosting services and tech services a website should get. BlueHost is regarded as the number 1 web hosting for blogs and small businesses websites.
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Features include
- 1 website
- 50gb SSD Storage
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Standard Performance
- 1 included domains
- 5 parked domains
- 25 subdomins
- All these for just $2.75/month.
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j.) SiteGround
This hosting platform is also recommended by WordPress. It is known for very good support, backups, and excellent site performance suitable for SEO friendliness. It can be regarded as the BlueHost alternative.
Furthermore it has a plan for students called the student web hosting which costs 1:99$.
Features include
- 1 Website hosting
- 10gb web space
- 10,000 visits monthly
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Free WP installation
- Free WP migrator
- WordPress Auto-update
- Free SSL certificate
- Daily Backup
- Free CDN
- Free Email
- Unlimited databases
- 30-day money-back guarantee.
k). HostGator
HostGator has been providing professional hosting service for over 18 years and it became one of the biggest hosting companies in the world due to its professionalism and affordable services. It is largely used by many professional websites.
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Features include
- Free domain registration
- 1 click WordPress installation
- Free SSL certificate
- 200$ marketing offer
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Free business Email account
- 24/7 365 days excellent customer service.
l.) DreamHost
DreamHost is the favorite of over 1.5 million webmasters and it is one of the oldest hosting companies with over 22 years of professional host providing service.
Features
- Free domain
- Free SSL certificate
- Free domain privacy
- Unlimited Email accounts
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Excellent customer services.
- Basic plan for just $2.64
Bottom Line
Having mentioned these free and “almost-free” web hosting platforms, you should know what is suitable for your website and for your budget as well.