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Web Hosting - Free and Paid (and Tools)

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Free and paid hosting that is not part of the impersonal giant corporates - and tools to help you maintain and improve your web pages.
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Free Web Hosting

Free hosting that is easy to set up and use.

 
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Another one I have used for years. Reliable and no fuss.
infinityfree.com - Free Web Hosting with PHP and MySQL
 
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[ edit Apr 2024 ] This one has changed and now only gives you 12 months of free hosting after which you have to upgrade to a paid plan - so I will leave this here for a while and then delete.

A long-standing free website provider. Has paid plans if you want to upgrade but free is adequate for most small sites.

Most free hosts will not let you use your own domain without paying for a hosting plan but 000webhost does. They provide good instructions on how to do it as well.

Their documentation is good and they don't deluge you with spam, just necessary update messages from time to time.
000webhost.com - Host a Website for Free with Cpanel, PHP
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Good free hosting, long time working
x10hosting - Free Web hosting Web Hosting For The Masses
 
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This is another that has been reliable for a long time.
Googiehost.com - Free Web Hosting - easy and quick.
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23 years and my site is still there! This one also gives you
- up to 3 email addresses 
- free subdomain or use your own domain
- use their site templates or FTP whatever you like.
Free Web Hosting Services -- 50megs.com
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Paid Web Hosting

Web Hosts that are not part of the Big Tech conglomerates - personal service and easy to find out what it really costs.

 
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I am biased… This is our own hosting venture to support our charity projects
Satoshi Host - Bitcoin and Lightning Hosting
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Very good prices reliable good support
CrownCloud - VPSes, Dedicated Servers and Colocation services!
 
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This one we use because they have some good VPS deals.
Lightning-Fast SSD Web Hosting | SSD Virtual Private Servers | Ethernet Servers Ltd
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I used to use these and they had a really good service but when cPanel increased the licence fee it made it too expensive for us. Still very good if cPanel is what you need.
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Online Website Tools

Sites you can use to write code, check for errors, maintain your site(s) in good condition and any other things to improve your site.

 
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Not strictly hosting - you can find or write code here and edit is with live preview and then either copy-paste or embed or download it to use in your site.
Useful HTML/CSS/Javascripts and previews editor
 
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Easily build interactive tutorials for your site users. If there's anything that needs more than a couple of sentences to guide how to use it then this might be a better way.
Personal account is free.
Go to “More” in the top menu then select “Resources” then follow the youtube link - that's the best way to see how it works.
iorad - the tutorial builder