Free Web Hosting: 8 Great Options to Host Your Blog in 2024
Founder and Editor-in-chief
The Starting Idea
You need to have your own site to project your brand in a formidable form. But hosting a website can be an expensive affair for a lot of budding solopreneurs and startup founders experimenting with new ideas.
That’s why we found 8 free web hosting services that can help you get your site live and kicking.
Free Web Hosting
1. GitHub Pages
Host your site for free using this tool. Aimed mainly towards developers.
2. FreeHosting
Get free hosting for one domain with up to 10 GB of disk space.
3. Wix
A simple drag and drop website builder which also lets you host your website for free with a storage space of up to 500MB. The free website will hosted with a Wix subdomain.
4. Weebly
Another alternative to Wix, with a storage space of 500MB. Again, the free website is available only with a Weebly subdomain.
This free hosting service is for more tech savvy users who want to use modern versions of PHP and Apache.
6. Bravenet
Free hosting with 500MB Storage with the free site hosted on Bravenet subdomain.
7. Freehostia
Get lightning fast cloud hosting for free with this option.
8. x10hosting
Get a high performing web presence with x10hosting’s free plan. The storage space allowed with this site is up to 1GB with an ability to have 2 add-on domains, 1 parked domain, and 2 subdomains.
Abhik Shome
Abhik Shome is the Founder of The Starting Idea, a solopreneur-focused business growth magazine. With The Starting Idea, he aims to share clever (and unconventional) content marketing strategies and untapped tools for solopreneur startups to seize profitable blue ocean opportunities rapidly before the competition. He has previously contributed to major publications like Inc Magazine, Business Insider, Thrive Global, Influencive, and YourStory. Connect with him on LinkedIn.