A free plan, not a trial period

Free Web Hosting for Your Website

Shared hosting for a small site — a landing page, portfolio, blog or company website.

Technical support is paid on the free plan — we say it up front, not in the small print.

PHP 8.1 – 8.4
MySQL
Let's Encrypt SSL
Automatic backups
ISPmanager panel
No ad banners
€0 per month
What's included

To get free hosting you go through an identity check (KYC). Why we ask for this

Site online · HTTPS
Server in the Netherlands
Free plan

5 GB NVMe · 512 MB RAM · 3 databases

The plan

What the free plan includes

One plan, no upgrades hidden inside it. Every quota is published here — before you sign up, not after a suspension.
Free plan
€0per month
Websites
3
Disk space
5 GB NVMe
Memory
512 MB
Databases
3 MySQL databases
PHP
versions 8.1 – 8.4
Traffic
Not metered
Data centre
Netherlands
ISPmanager control panel
Free subdomain to start with
Connect your own domain — no upsell
Let's Encrypt SSL, issued and renewed automatically
FTP access
MySQL database and phpMyAdmin
Automatic backups (free plan)
Several PHP versions to choose from
We publish quotas as numbers instead of writing «unlimited»: behind unlimited traffic on free hosting there is usually a request limit that runs out after the first thousand page views.
Getting started

How to get your hosting

Four steps. The check happens once, after that hosting is issued automatically.
Step 1
Sign up

Email and password. A credit card is not required at any step.

A couple of minutesNo card
Step 2
Phone

Enter your number and the code from the SMS. After that the phone isn't needed.

SMS codeOnce
Step 3
Identity check

You upload a photo of your ID. We won't ask for it again — here or on any other service.

Right in the browserOnce
Step 4
Hosting is ready

Your ISPmanager account is created right away, with a starter address until you connect your own domain. Upload the files via the panel or FTP.

No waitingSSL in a couple of clicks

We don't ask for a card — the identity check replaces it. Large clouds require a card for free access; here no charge is possible at all.

Honest about limits

What to know before signing up

The free plan is a real one, but it isn't unlimited. We name the boundaries ourselves instead of leaving them for later.

Technical support is paid

Fact

Tickets to the technical team are charged separately.

Why

Support is real specialist time, and the only way to hand it out for free is to fund it with ads on your sites.

What you get

The plan stays free and ad-free, while questions about moving to a VPS and migrating data are always free.

Site email goes through an external service

Fact

There is no mail service on the free plan: no mailboxes on your domain and no sending through our servers.

Why

The plan is free, and sending mail through us would be a ready-made spam channel that ruins the reputation of the whole platform.

What you get

Contact forms, order emails and password resets all work — just point your CMS at any external SMTP, Gmail included. And the platform stays out of spam lists.

Resources are capped by quotas

Fact

512 MB of memory and 5 GB of disk per account.

Why

Hard quotas are exactly what stops one neighbour from eating the whole server.

What you get

Predictable performance instead of an «unlimited» plan. Enough for a landing page, a portfolio or a small CMS site.

No SLA, no compensation

Fact

We make no uptime commitments on the free plan.

Why

Commitments cost money, and on a free plan they would be a promise with nothing behind it.

What you get

We don't sell you a guarantee we don't intend to honour. The infrastructure is the same as our paid VPS — and the guarantees live there.

Why this is free

The first question about free hosting is «where's the catch». We answer with a mechanism, not with promises.

We don't make money on the free plan — it pays for itself differently: some projects outgrow shared resources and move to our VPS, for money and voluntarily.

Most sites will never move, and that's fine: it's how the model works.

01

No advertising

No banners, no injections into your HTML, no ads in the panel. Easy to verify: open your page source.

02

No data selling

We don't attach analytics or advertising scripts to your site and don't pass data to third parties.

03

No time limit

This isn't a trial: there's no countdown, and the plan won't quietly turn into a paid one.

Verification

Verified once

Verification at signup cuts off mass registration of throwaway accounts — and with it most of the spam and phishing.

We're not vetting you — we're verifying that the account details are real.

Neighbours pass the same check
On shared hosting it's the neighbour who ruins the reputation. Here there are no unverified neighbours.
Less risk of blocks
Free hosting is a magnet for phishing, and search engines treat its addresses with suspicion. We cut that off at the entrance.
Resources go to real projects
Mass-registering throwaway accounts makes no economic sense here — so the capacity goes to actual sites.

The check is performed by a dedicated verification provider.

Comparison

Free hosting or a VPS

Where the free plan ends and a managed VPS begins — no dashes, nothing left unsaid.
Free hosting
Managed VPS
Price€0 per monthfrom €3.20 per month
Resources512 MB, shared server, hard quotasDedicated vCPU and RAM, KVM
Technical supportPaid, per ticketIncluded, 24/7
Site emailVia an external SMTP serviceYour own mail
Your own softwareWhatever the panel offersAnything, full root
Uptime and SLANo commitments99.9% with compensation
Server managementWe handle itWe handle that too — the VPS is managed
Best forLanding pages, portfolios, study projectsShops, services, high-traffic sites

When it's time for a VPS

Tick what sounds familiar. Two or more — time to move.

  • The site started returning 500 and 503 errors
  • You're getting notices about memory or CPU quotas
  • Consistently more than a thousand visitors a day
  • You need to send email from your own domain
  • You need your own stack: Node.js, Python, Redis, Docker, background workers
  • Long cron jobs don't fit the time limit
  • You need technical support without paying per ticket

Two or more ticked — open a free ticket with our sales team. The migration to a VPS is done by our engineers: it's free and doesn't count as a technical support request. Moving up takes nothing away — your account, domains and sites stay yours.

See VPS plans
Control panel

Everything is managed in ISPmanager

An industry-standard panel rather than a stripped-down dashboard: files, databases, domains and certificates where you'd expect them, with no command line.

File manager with drag-and-drop and a code editor
Create a site: PHP version, aliases, redirects
Let's Encrypt SSL in a couple of clicks, auto-renewed
MySQL databases and phpMyAdmin
access.log and error.log per site
Visit statistics
Task scheduler (cron)
Backups
FTP accounts

What runs on it

WordPressJoomlaDrupalMODXOpenCartLaravel

One-click installation of WordPress and other CMSs will come later — for now you upload your site via the file manager or FTP. All the PHP versions and MySQL are there, so any CMS installs manually in about ten minutes.

Backups

Backups run automatically

On the free plan too, with nothing to configure — most free hosts don't back up your site at all.
Automatic
Copies are created on a schedule, without your involvement and without support tickets.
Restore from the panel
Roll the site back to a working version in ISPmanager — no need to wait for an engineer.
Stored separately
Copies don't live next to the project, so a failure on the site doesn't touch them.
Use cases

What you can host here

Two limits only — the resources allocated to you and the legality of the project. Everything else is fine.
Landing page or business card site
A one-pager, a service page or an event site — with your own domain and HTTPS.
Portfolio
Work by a designer, photographer or developer that needs a proper link to share.
Study project
A PHP coursework, a database assignment, a first website — anywhere a real server beats a local one.
Staging ground
A draft and a sanity check before the project moves to production on a VPS.
Small company site
An informational site with contacts and a catalogue while traffic is still low.
Client demo
For agencies: show work in progress to a client without spending paid hosting on it.

Commercial sites are allowed: unlike the free plans of some platforms, we don't forbid making money from your project.

If you need PHP, a database and a panel — come to us. If you need a purely static site with no backend, we'll say it honestly: dedicated static hosts will serve you better.

Email

Email: what works and what doesn't

Port 25 is closed — and we say straight away what still works and what doesn't.

Works

  • Contact forms
  • Order and signup emails
  • Password resets
  • CMS notifications

Doesn't work

  • Your own mail server
  • Direct delivery over port 25
  • Bulk mailings
  • Mailboxes on your own domain

Email from your site goes out through an external SMTP service — the industry standard and, incidentally, better deliverability. The free tiers of such services are generous enough for a small site, and setup takes about ten minutes.

Rules

What isn't hosted here

Our rules exist to protect our users, and the Internet as a whole, from irresponsible activity.
Crypto mining
Warez and piracy
Phishing and fake pages
Bulk spam
Torrent trackers and mirrors
Proxies, anonymisers, URL shorteners
Malware
Botnet command servers

We check at sign-up and on every report. The full rules are in the service agreement.

Support

How help works here

So you never learn about paid support from an invoice — here's the full matrix.
RequestPrice (support matrix)
Knowledge base and documentationFree
Sales ticket: moving to a VPS and data migrationFree
Technical ticket about the free hosting{{SUPPORT_PRICE}}
Support on a managed VPSIncluded in the plan

The price of a ticket is visible before you send it. There's no subscription — you pay only when you actually need an engineer.

We removed free technical support in order to keep the free plan itself, rather than turn it into a seven-day trial.

Frequently asked questions about free hosting

The things people ask before signing up: the catch, verification, email, support and moving to a VPS.

  • Yes. The plan costs €0 and doesn't turn into a paid one. No credit card is needed at sign-up or later, and you'll never be billed. The only paid things are technical support tickets and services you order separately.

  • No. The plan has no expiration date and no countdown. It's a separate service, not a VPS trial period. Use it for as long as your project needs it.

  • From paid services: managed VPS, dedicated servers and SSL. Some projects eventually outgrow shared resources and move to a VPS — that's what funds the free plan. Most sites never move to paid, and that's built into the model.

  • No. We don't place banners, don't inject scripts into your HTML and don't show ads in the control panel. Easy to check: open your page source.

  • To keep the platform clean. Free hosting is a magnet for phishing and spam farms, and a check at the door makes it worthless to them. In return you get a server where your neighbours passed the same check.

  • No. The identity check replaces the card rather than adding to it. Large clouds usually require a card for free access — here no charge is possible in the first place.

Put your site online for free

No ads and no credit card. The identity check happens once, after that hosting is issued automatically.

Compare with VPS

Free web hosting is a way to put a project online without paying for a server: you get disk space, PHP, a MySQL database and a control panel, and you either connect your own domain or use a free subdomain. This kind of shared hosting suits landing pages, portfolios, coursework and small company sites — anywhere traffic is still low and a VPS would be premature.

Our free plan differs from most free hosting in three ways. First, no advertising: we don't inject banners into your HTML and don't show them in the panel. Second, automatic backups, which free plans normally don't have at all. Third, a check at sign-up: email, phone and identity. It's slower than «email and go», but phishing and bulk mail don't live on these servers — and those are exactly what ruins the reputation of free platforms.

In return we're upfront about the boundaries. Technical support is paid on the free plan: the knowledge base and questions about moving to a VPS are free. Port 25 is closed, so email from your site goes through an external SMTP service. We make no uptime commitments on the free plan — those live on our managed VPS from €3.20 a month, and we'll migrate your project there for free once it outgrows shared resources.