Which is the Best Free WordPress Website Hosting ?

Choosing hosting for your wordpress blog is always a hard decision to begin with. Most beginners prefer to start with free hosting to try things out, and they move to premium one later on. Even I started with free hosting until I came to know that I can earn from blogging too.

There’s no doubt that wordpress can do anything, and so it will be the best CMS for your blogging. And to run wordpress self-hosted blog, you need to choose a hosting which can not just fill the requirements of running wordpress, but can also provide you with the important features like backups and restore, FTP accounts, Fantastico for easy installation, Security and more.

There are thousands of hosting sites, which are doing the same thing at different or no costs. We are going to have a look at most decent free hosting sites for installing wordpress.

But before that, you should be knowing that there is quality difference between premium hosting and free hosting. Not only in the terms of customer support, but taking everything into consideration, free hosting lacks features as well as quality. But for beginning, I think sites we have researched so far are pretty good.

But if you are going to run a business or converting a huge idea into live, you should be buying a hosting package from any of the reputed hosting sites.

Why use Free Hosting ?

I believe for a starter, free hosting is perfect for those who aren’t familiar with the hosting and wordpress environment. So, it helps to get familiar with the workarounds and the setup process.

But not only for beginners, I have seen people, who don’t want to buy separate hosting, for creating Demo pages of their wordpress themes use free hosting. It’s again a nice idea, you just have a separate account for controlling all your WordPress Theme Demos and Plugin Demos at once place.

1. 000Webhost

I used 000Webhost for a long time, and its reliable until you get huge traffic. Yup, it blocks your account once your blog starts getting traffic and crosses the bandwidth limit. So, you should keep this in mind. Apart from this, they have pretty good features for basic users who want to host their wordpress websites for free.

1. Disk Space : 1500 MB
2. Bandwidth : 100 GB / month
3. Add-on Domains : 5
4. Sub Domains : 5

000Webhost is a good hosting, easy to set up and comes packed with features that other free hosting sites don’t provide. Performance of this hosting is good, but you will notice some downtime. This hosting runs a script at the bottom of each of your blog, don’t know what for, but its annoying.

2. Byethost

Byethost is another good, and reliable hosting. Unlike standard hosting sites and 000webhost, Byethost uses Vista panel, which is more simpler to use. Here’s what you get with free hosting package.

1. Disk Space : 1000 MB
2. Bandwidth : 50 GB / month
3. Add-on Domains : 5
4. Sub Domains : 5

Everything is quite same as 000webhost. Byethost has very helpful community forums where you can get your stuff resolved in short time.

3. Zymic

If you are going to run a photography or downloads blog on wordpress, you would definitely need a larger storage hosting. If so, Zymic is your solution because it provides with the larger disk space.

1. Disk Space : 6000 MB
2. Bandwidth : 50 GB / month
3. Add-on Domains : 1
4. Sub Domains : 1

The specs of the hosting are amazing. It has also got active forum where you can ask your questions, problems and get them resolved.

All the above hosting site are good, and these are perfect sites a beginner can begin with. You can automatically using Fantastico, or manually install WordPress through FTP. These sites support latest version of PHP and MySQL.

When to switch to Premium Hosting ?

Well, I already mentioned that if you are going to run a giant blog, then you should start from premium hosting only. Free Hosting sites are not that much reliable, and you can have your account disabled or suspended anytime without any notification.

Moreover, free hosting limits everything, you can’t host all of your websites at once place, you can’t just cross the bandwidth limits which means you can get limited traffic to your blogs.

If you started with free hosting, and you think you will be blogging more often, then you should go professional and buy a premium hosting for your blog. There are no limitations with premium hosting, and you can then focus on your blog and writing without considering anything else.

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