Free Hosting

A domain name is separate. Domains are never free to register, so you either connect one you already own or register one here. Without one your site lives at a name of your choosing under hosted.hostna.com, with its own certificate.

The full list, with what each number means in practice, is on the limits page.

1. 1

   Create the account

   Email address, telephone number and postal address. Confirm the email from the message we send.

2. 2

   Order the free plan

   Pick the name for your hosted.hostna.com address, or connect a domain you already own. There is no payment step.

3. 3

   A person switches it on

   We check the account details, then activate the plan and send you the panel login. This is done by hand, in the order requests arrive.

4. 4

   Publish

   Upload files by FTP or the file manager, or install WordPress from the panel. The limits stay visible in the client area as you go.

To order it you need an account with a confirmed email address, a telephone number and a full postal address. One free plan per person and per household; a second one under another email is closed when found (Terms, § 12).

The free plan is not offered in every country. If yours is not covered, the order flow says so before you finish — the paid plans may still be available.

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No. Storage, bandwidth and CPU cost money every month, so a plan that costs nothing has to be limited somewhere. The only question is whether the provider tells you where. When a free plan advertises unlimited resources, the limit has usually moved somewhere less visible:

• A fair-use clause that defines "unlimited" narrowly enough to suspend an account the moment it becomes popular.
• Advertising injected into your pages, which means your visitors are the product.
• A daily hit or CPU-seconds counter that takes the site offline for the rest of the day.
• A trial that quietly renews into a paid plan on a card you entered at sign-up.

Hostna takes the opposite approach: the free plan is small and says so. 500 MB of NVMe storage and 10 GB of monthly traffic is enough for a portfolio, a landing page, a documentation site or a first WordPress install — and not enough for a busy shop, which is exactly why the paid plans exist.

• Learning how hosting worksDNS, SSL, file permissions and databases behave the same on a free plan as on a paid one. This is a real server, not a sandbox.
• A first website or portfolioA personal site, a CV, a portfolio or a single landing page fits inside the limits with room to spare.
• Testing before you commitTry the control panel and the workflow before deciding whether to move a real project here.
• Not: a growing business siteIf the website brings in customers, the storage and traffic ceiling arrives sooner than you expect. Start on a paid plan instead.
• Not: an online shopProduct images, orders and a checkout under load need reserved resources, not a plan sized for a first project.
• Not: a server you controlRoot access, custom services and background workers belong on a VPS. The free plan is web hosting, not a virtual machine.

• No cron jobs, no shell, no root. Scheduled tasks and background processes are VPS work.
• No automatic backups. You can make your own from the panel at any time, and you should — the free plan carries no restore promise.
• No webmail. The mailbox works with any mail app over IMAP and SMTP.
• No response-time promise on support. Tickets are answered after paying customers.
• No availability target. The Terms say so plainly in § 12; paid plans carry the service levels.
• No second site, no second database, no second mailbox. Those are the first things the €2.80 plan adds.

Free sites whose owner has not signed in for six months get an email; if there is still no sign-in 30 days later, the site is removed — the space goes back to people who use it. Everything else about the plan is in the Terms of Service, section 12, and the Acceptable Use Policy.

Prices are final — Hostna is a small business under § 19 (1) UStG, so no VAT is added. Paid plans renew at the same price. The welcome code WELCOME20 is not used up by ordering the free plan first.

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Set the account up properly

Small one-time steps that also make the account harder to abuse — which is why they are worth something.

Tell people where your site runs

Public and checkable. A link we can open is the whole requirement.

Refer someone who actually stays

The largest and the only uncapped route. Credit lands once the referred account is real — not at signup.

Publish something other people can use

Worth more because it lasts. A tutorial keeps helping people long after a post scrolls away.

Contribute something we would have paid for

These are worth the most per hour of your time, because they are the things we cannot buy easily.

An account can hold up to 12 unused months at a time. Each month is one month of Pro Hosting, taken off your invoice when you move to a paid plan — the free plan itself has no expiry date and needs no extending.

The badge

Optional. Paste this anywhere on your public front page — the footer is the usual place. It links here with rel="nofollow", because it is a badge and not a link exchange; what it earns you is a month of credit, what it earns us is a name on a real site.

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