How to host your website for free

Hosting a website used to be complicated, and at times expensive. Luckily, we have some solutions that are both easy to use and free now!

Both GitHub pages and Netlify give us free hosting solutions for static websites. By static, I mean using HTML, CSS, and JS, but no databases and all that fun stuff, so if you're looking to host a WordPress site, this won't work.

But just because it doesn't work for WordPress doesn't mean we're super limited either! Both work with static site generators like Jekyll, Hugo and others, and Netlify even has a CMS that you can set up with your static site generator. I host my site with Netlify, and using Jekyll I have a blog (my articles) and it works great :).

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[deliriumcode]

Man this was so easy to understand, you are a great presenter / teacher!
Thanks a bunch!

[TheAniMob]

Wow! Thanks so much, I'm watching this 2 yrs from when this vid was published, and the method works great! I really appreciate it! keep up the good work

[ari_archer]

i've been using netlify for testing things and i love it even after 1 year of using it

[westganton]

Very cool alternative to AWS S3 static website hosting. The 125k free Netlify function invocations per month open up a lot of options for dynamic actions for a static site, like a contact form.

The same thing can be accomplished in AWS with API Gateway and Lambda but each of those services has a cost, albeit not much if you don't get much traffic. Thanks a lot. I'm sold

[BneiAnusim]

I have mine in Heroku for about two years and is totally free! You can have even teams (up to 5 members) and continuously deliver apps from dev to staging and production. Also, you can use custom domains and git.

[crowebro]

This is exactly what I needed to know this week. I know you posted this well over a year ago but it showed up in my feed when I needed it. 😆

[theegreatestever]

I cannot believe how easy it was to set up the netlify thingy...I have been scratching my head for over a week now and working on getting money but lol this will save me cause I can now have people review my site before I actually deploy it like we do in the responsive portfolio course you have (*card got declined cause I have insufficient funds)

[Randshowz]

Thank God i found you, i have always been looking for a channel to learn coding all my life but believe me no one does it better than you.

[erykkryszewski]

Keep doing this man! This channel is really amazing. Waiting for something more with html/css/javascript :)

[Adanmacreates]

You are a LIFE SAVER. I'm broke in college but want to build my own site anyway, and don't need a bunch of bloat like wordpress or squarespace

[akj]

Very good video mate. Exactly what I was looking for. Nothing too in-depth and concise.

[mahit-m]

Its so fast and great, Thanks a lot. Your videos are always the best!!!

[salonichandan]

You saved my time, great work kevin!!

[allex]

I've been looking for a free web hosting service for quite a while just so I can show my projects to other people faster. Thank you a lot, keep up the good work.

[wbholding]

thank you so much . god bless you . after a day of error in github i finally made it through, thank you one more time

[successandyou]

i struggled 5hours i swear to god i was so angry cause i watched all the videos and nothing seemed to work
thank you so much for this video
im not that type of person that writes a comment and english is not my language
but i wanted to thank you for this video cause it is so helpful

[rifasalipbi]

I still didn't know why this video have Dislikes ! So cool video <3

[alezanders]

Is there a way to set up a custom email and email forwarding with Netlify? It would be really great to switch over but that might be a dealbreaker if it’s not an option.

[mises]

There is a firebase too. And it might be not only for static pages. You can use Firebase functions to auto generate pages like regular server. Functions are for free. Each month you got 1-2 milions free function calls (above it cost about 0.4 USD per milion. Really cheap). It works like it's turning on in one second mini server and generate what ever you want and turn's off.

[phiz]

Thank you so much for this video! I struggled to find a free place to host my portfolio this video helped me a lot!!