Free website hosting pioneer.
Free hosting with PHP & MySQL, no ads, and free subdomain
AwardSpace.com is a pioneer in the free web hosting industry, offering reliable free hosting services since 2003.
Web hosting services
A crafted experience for everyone’s needs
Web hosting services
A crafted experience for everyone’s needs
Free hosting
Truly Free Web Hosting with PHP & MySQL. Create your first website for free, and tell your story to the world.
The Free Web Hosting Service is suitable for small blog websites, news media, and idea launching.
Approximate monthly visits:
~5000/month.
Shared web hosting
Our Shared hosting services are for those of you who want to start big, and grow bigger.
The Shared Hosting plans are appropriate for bigger blog websites, eCommerce shops, news media, and working businesses.
Approximate monthly visits:
~15 000 to ~150 000/month.
WordPress hosting
The WordPress Web Hosting Service is the perfect solution for anyone that wants to create a WordPress website.
WordPress is arguably the best Content Management System with which you can create nearly any website.
Approximate monthly visits:
~15 000 to ~150 000/month.
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Web Hosting Plans
Features
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Need a custom plan?
We host agencies and enterprise clients of all sizes. If you need a custom hosting solution, don’t hesitate to talk with our sales team.
30 Day money-back guarantee
24/7 real-time support
Cheap web hosting
Secure environment
Instant activation
Create your website with ease
Start with the domain name
All the years of experience in the hosting industry proved time and again that one should first consider the name of their website before doing anything else. There are multiple reasons for that.
For starters, the domain name that one might have had in their mind might be already registered. If so, there are a few approaches to overcome this unpleasant situation. You can try buying the domain, which is rarely worth it, exceptions do exist, of course. On the other hand, you could figure out another name for your future website.
Another reason for the importance of the name is that it sometimes limits or broadens the intended applications of your website and/or brand. A name, too neutral might leave your website users expecting more, but on the other hand, a too specific name of your website and brand might restrict the expected services that you provide.
Of course, nothing could stop you from offering whatever services you choose, but it is hard to imagine that one could find a website-building service on a domain called “dog-hotel.com”.
Choose your website name today.
One-Click CMS Installation
In order for you to start building your website as soon as possible, not only your AwardSpace hosting account will be activated immediately, but you’ll be able to use our proprietary one-click CMS Zacky Installer.
Naturally, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, OpenCart, and PrestaShop are available.
Yet, so are other content management systems like Moodle, MediaWiki, osCommerce, phpBB, Grav, Concrete5
And still other great software like SuiteCRM, VTiger, SimpleMachines, etc.
Choose a Web Hosting Plan
We understand that you are just looking for a solution that will just work. And while it may be easier to just push for the sale, we figured that it would be far better, and fair to help you choose a hosting plan that will work best for your needs.
Thus, we’ve created a use cases section on our website to help you find which solution will work best for your project.
We’ve listed the most common website types and connected them to the web hosting plans that provide the resources needed for each of these website types.
Build your website
Once you find a name for your website, choose the web hosting plan that you feel fits your idea best, and install your preferred CMS, you can indulge in the pleasant play of building your website.
If you’ve chosen WordPress hosting as a hosting solution and WordPress as a CMS if needed you can check out our WordPress tutorials section to get some initial and more advanced advice regarding the building and maintaining of a WordPress website.
We are here for you
To create your WordPress website, the first step is obviously to sigWe at AwardSpace understand that hosting is a vast industry with a lot of technical terms, a lot of actions that one might not be familiar with.
Therefore, we’ve set up a hosting knowledge base, which will help you understand your account. You can check out the hosting encyclopedia, where the main hosting terms are explained, or dive directly to the getting started guides, to learn more about the first steps you need to make to set up your hosting environment correctly or what options you have at your disposal.
You can use the rating system in our web hosting knowledge base to let us know whether the information you found is what you were looking for or you need something else.
Hosting knowledge base
WordPress is probably the most versatile content management system in existence. Naturally, it is the most used and famous CMS. It makes the process of website building accessible to everyone. The development of the CMS through the years made it actually possible and more often than not recommendable for one to create their own website, instead of paying someone to do it for them.
Still, sometimes even WordPress might get more or less complicated. Therefore, we are constantly updating our WordPress Tutorials section.
When you go to the tutorials page you’ll be able to give us feedback on whether the tutorial is what you expected, or you need more information.
WordPress Tutorials
If for any reason you stumble upon a technical issue that you can’t find the answer to in our resources library, or just don’t have the time to do so, you can simply contact our technical support team. AwardSpace offers 24/7 real-time technical support and we would love to help you.
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Web hosting use cases
Personal website
AwardSpace hosts tens of thousands of personal websites. We would love you to join our community!
Web agency
We do understand that web-based businesses need a reliable web hosting partner. Not only we will host your website, but we have an affiliate program and a hosting reseller one as well.
E-commerce shop
By clicking here, you’ll find our recommendations for a hosting solution for small to medium e-commerce shops.
Enterprise clients
AwardSpace offers custom hosting solutions for enterprise clients of all sizes.
Free hosting features
AwardSpace’s free hosting is easily the most feature-rich free hosting on the market.
5GB Bandwidth
1000MB Disk Space
100% ad-free
Instant account activation, no fees
CMS auto installer
Free website builder
99.9% Uptime and 24/7 support
Full PHP & MySQL database support
Need something else?
Free hosting
Truly Free Web Hosting with PHP & MySQL. Create your first website for free, and tell your story to the world.
The Free Web Hosting Service is suitable for small blog websites, news media, and idea launching.
Approximate monthly visits:
~5000/month.
Shared web hosting
Our Shared hosting services are for those of you who want to start big, and grow bigger.
The Shared Hosting plans are appropriate for bigger blog websites, eCommerce shops, news media, and working businesses.
Approximate monthly visits:
~15 000 to ~150 000/month.
WordPress hosting
The WordPress Web Hosting Service is the perfect solution for anyone that wants to create a WordPress website.
WordPress is arguably the best Content Management System with which you can create nearly any website.
Approximate monthly visits:
~15 000 to ~150 000/month.
Free domain name
Your website’s name, also known as a domain name is arguably the single most important element of your online presence.
Get up to two free domains. Including, but not limited to a free .com domain .net, .org, .us.
Free domains are available with:
Shared and Semi-Dedicated Hosting.
Semi-dedicated hosting
The Semi-Dedicated Hosting Service is designed to support big websites. This is the home of the biggest eCommerce shops.
Semi-Dedicated Plans are ideal for websites with a large number of pages, and traffic. Get a fast and smooth load of your content.
Approximate monthly visits:
Unlimited.
VPS Cloud hosting
The VPS Cloud Hosting is crafted for those who appreciate their freedom. It is, of course, for advanced hosting users.
Get root server access, and install any software, configure your OS, make updates, maintain your own server.
Approximate monthly traffic:
2TB – 8TB.
Additional services
Everything you need to create a fully functional website.
Domain names
Get the domain name you want for your website or transfer it from another host. We offer all major domain name extensions – .com, .net, .org, .co.uk.
~ SSL Certificates
Easily secure your website and online payment pages with one of our GeoTrust SSL certificates. We offer various SSLs with different levels of protection to fit all possible types of websites and budgets.
Online business opportunity
Start making money online today.
Reseller hosting
Beginning an online business is easier than ever. Start reselling our hosting plans for free and earn a payment. Set your own retail prices and receive a commission with zero investment.
Recommended for passionate web entrepreneurs.
Hosting affiliate program
Become an affiliate and enjoy some of the highest payouts in the industry, as well as a personal affiliate manager that can help you get the maximum earnings from your website traffic.
Recommended for influencers and bloggers.
24/7 real-time support
AwardSpace is among the highest-rated technical support in web hosting.
We're here 24 hours a day, every day of the week, including holidays.
Help from experts
We do understand how important it is for you to receive help from experts. Thus AwardSpace's technical support department is made up of people who really do understand hosting. They'll help you regardless of your technical background.
Consistently high ratings
We are constantly striving towards the highest rating. Thus, our support team is consistently receiving high evaluations. We love helping our customers succeed.
Here for you
We do understand that a question or an issue might occur at any time, thus our technical support is here for you 24 hours, seven days a week. Including holidays.
What others say about us
#1 for Free Hosting
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Customer-Oriented Services and Fairly Priced
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HostingAdvice.com
Awardspace is well-known for their fantastic free web hosting. For more than a decade, they’ve provided a great hosting service.
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one of the most feature-rich and easy-to-use platforms in the market.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why AwardSpace?
AwardSpace is a free hosting pioneer with more than 16 years of expertise in the industry. For all these years we never stopped listening to your feedback with the single goal to become better.
Our hosting services have evolved many many times through this time, we added many new features to make the creation and management of a website easier for you.
We’ve implemented a lot more than the free shared hosting. Today we offer services like Semi-dedicated hosting service, VPS cloud hosting, and WordPress hosting. We’ve created and continue to maintain a web hosting knowledge base, WordPress tutorials section, and many more.
In a word, AwardSpace is not frozen in time. We are constantly striving to give more, to be better.
Millions of satisfied customers all over the world speak louder than we ever could.
How long does it take to create a website?
Honestly, it depends. There are millions of websites in the world, and each of them is, in one way or another, unique.
There are unifying factors like whether you are using CMS, like WordPress for example, or you are creating everything from scratch.
If you are using a CMS, it might take you from a few hours to a few days to create the website.
Check out our full guide on how to create a website with WordPress and build your first website for a few hours.
What is the fastest and easiest way to create a website?
That’s an easy question. WordPress. WordPress is by far the fastest and easiest way to build your first website.
Check out our WordPress tutorials to see how easy it is to create and maintain a website with WordPress
What is web hosting and why I need it?
Web hosting is an online service that can power your website. When you get a web hosting plan, you will essentially rent a small portion of a professional web server. You can then upload your website onto the server to make it accessible worldwide.
What does "free hosting" mean?
Unlike many other service providers that are using the term “free hosting” as a hook, where they mean “3 months” free if you commit for a year usage, AwardSpace’s free hosting service is actually free.
When we use the term “free hosting” we mean exactly that.
Free of charge. No ads and no credit card needed. We are not asking you for commitment to buy anything nor to upgrade your plan down the road.
You can use our free hosting forever.
It is truly free hosting.
What is a domain name?
The domain name acts as an easy-to-remember address for your site. When you wish to visit a specific website, you would type its domain name in your browser’s address bar. As an example, AwardSpace uses the “awardspace.com” domain name.
What is the difference between a domain and hosting?
Hosting refers to the Internet service that allows you to put a site online while the domain provides a memorable address so others can easily visit your website. You can think of the domain as a street address, hosting as the land lot that corresponds to the address, and the website as the building that you have constructed on that lot.
Looking for a risk-free start?
Look no further. As a free web hosting pioneer, AwardSpace provides a completely risk-free environment for you to create your first website.
No credit card is needed. You just register and enjoy our entirely free web hosting with no ads, and 99.9% uptime guarantee.
What are you waiting for? Let's get you started!