Every free shared web hosting tier that clears our bar in 2026: 4 offers meet the criteria and 1 offer is demoted with a named reason. Our membership test: a directory on a managed server, reached by FTP or SSH, with a bundled MySQL or Postgres. We could not confirm today's terms for 1 of them, and on all 1 the page we cite did not answer. Each row says why.

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Every free shared web hosting tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-11-14. Our membership test: a directory on a managed server, reached by FTP or SSH, with a bundled MySQL or Postgres.

4 offers meet our criteria on this page. Of those, 3 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, and 1 a recorded narrowing. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. They are listed in an order that rotates daily. Here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 513 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 64 cloud hosting offers →
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domcloud.co stable
Free

Linux hosting service that provides CI/CD with GitHub, SSH, and MariaDB/Postgres database. The free version has 1.5 GB storage and 2 GB network/month limit, supports up to 3 websites with custom domains. The page we cite for domcloud.co states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.

Listed in Cloud Hosting, and on this page because we labelled it shared_web_hosting. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://domcloud.co/, where it says: “DOM Cloud is a free, modern hosting service for your web applications.”. How we use this

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PythonAnywhere stable
Free

Python web hosting — Beginner plan free forever: 1 web app (yourusername.pythonanywhere.com), 512 MB disk, 100 CPU-seconds/day, 2 consoles. Outbound internet access available to whitelisted sites via HTTP(S)

  • An unused free web app expires after 1 month, down from 3 months before January 2026. (From blog.pythonanywhere.com/221, read 2026-10-05.)
  • Free accounts created on or after 2026-01-15 (2026-01-08 on the EU system) have no MySQL database and no scheduled tasks, which are in the $10-a-month Developer plan. Older free accounts keep them. (From help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/FreeAccountsFeatures, read 2026-10-05.)
  • PythonAnywhere's terms let it irretrievably delete an account's content after six months of inactivity, so keep a backup. (From pythonanywhere.com/terms, read 2026-10-05.)
  • PythonAnywhere's free Beginner account sign-up asks only for a username, an email address and a password, with no credit card. (From pythonanywhere.com/registration/register/beginner, read 2026-10-22.)

Listed in Cloud Hosting, and on this page because we labelled it shared_web_hosting. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.pythonanywhere.com/, where it says: “Host, run, and code Python in the cloud”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-01-15 — pricing restructured: PythonAnywhere dropped its $5-a-month Hacker plan, so the base paid plan is $10 a month. New free accounts lost MySQL and scheduled tasks; unused free web apps now expire after 1 month instead of 3. Source ↗
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Serv00.com stable
Free

3 GB of free web hosting with daily backups (7 days). Support: Crontab jobs, SSH access, repositories (GIT, SVN, and Mercurial), support: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, Perl, TCL/TK, Lua, Erlang, Rust, Pascal, C, C++, D, R, and many more.

Listed in Cloud Hosting, and on this page because we labelled it shared_web_hosting. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://serv00.com/, where it says: “Revolutionary hosting for FREE! 3 GB for free, no adverts, no hooks”. How we use this

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Awardspace.com stable
Free

AwardSpace's free hosting includes 5GB Bandwidth, 1000MB Disk Space, is 100% ad-free, offers instant account activation, a CMS auto installer, a free website builder, 99.9% Uptime, 24/7 support, and full PHP & MySQL database support. It's suitable for small blog websites, news media, and idea launching with approximate monthly visits of ~5000.

Listed in Cloud Hosting, and on this page because we labelled it shared_web_hosting. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.awardspace.com/, where it says: “AwardSpace.com is a pioneer in web hosting, offering Free Hosting with PHP/MySQL and no ads, alongside premium plans like Shared, WordPress, Semi-Dedicated, and VPS Cloud Hosting.”. How we use this

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Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

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Alwaysdata
Free

1 GB free web hosting with support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, .NET, Deno, Elixir, Go, Java, Lua, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust. Custom web servers, access via FTP, WebDAV and SSH. Mailbox, mailing list and app installer included. 256 MB RAM and a quarter of a CPU. Sites get an alwaysdata.net address; email can use your own domain. No credit card is required and the plan has no time limit. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-12, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Listed in Cloud Hosting, and on this page because we labelled it shared_web_hosting. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/, where it says: “Fully managed and all-inclusive hosting, without unexpected expenses. Unlimited databases, mailboxes and websites.”. How we use this

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-10-12 — the page names Alwaysdata but states no amount, tier or rate we can read, and its markup carries no structured data), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
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Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-11-14
query_key
best-of:shared_web_hosting
seed
d84b647ecb3b5ef07f11349839015511200cc2a848154b3ac82f1787a6e9dc9f
tie_count
4

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
domcloud.co Free Linux hosting service that provides CI/CD with GitHub, SSH, and MariaDB/Postgres database. The free version has 1.5 GB s... not confirmed · page states a free price · 2026-10-31 stable 2026-10-31
PythonAnywhere Free Python web hosting — Beginner plan free forever: 1 web app (yourusername.pythonanywhere.com), 512 MB disk, 100 CPU-secon... watch
effective 2026-01-15		 2026-11-02
Serv00.com Free 3 GB of free web hosting with daily backups (7 days). Support: Crontab jobs, SSH access, repositories (GIT, SVN, and Mer... stable 2026-11-12
Awardspace.com Free AwardSpace's free hosting includes 5GB Bandwidth, 1000MB Disk Space, is 100% ad-free, offers instant account activation,... stable 2026-11-12

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free shared web hosting tool in 2026?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 4 free shared web hosting offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free shared web hosting tiers have held their terms?

4 offers meet our criteria on this page. Of those, 3 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, and 1 a recorded narrowing. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

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