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Guide · WebJi® India
Free Web Hosting in India: What Is Actually Free in 2026
Quick answer
Free web hosting still exists in 2026: InfinityFree, GoogieHost, AwardSpace, ByetHost and WordPress.com Free run real free tiers, each with forum-only support, no backups and no domain email. WebJi® does not offer free hosting; its risk-free test is the money-back guarantee on paid plans from ₹299 a month before 18% GST.
For students, hobbyists and small businesses deciding whether a free host is good enough, or whether a refundable paid month is the safer test.
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Jaipur · IN
Jaipur · IN
- In business
- 21+ yrs
- Reply time
- <60 min
- Clients
- 12K+
- Billing
- INR + GST
Last editorial update: 14 November 2026. Prices follow the dated sources on this page; checkout confirms current charges.
Who still offers free web hosting in India in 2026?
Five providers on the Indian search radar run real, active free tiers: InfinityFree, GoogieHost, AwardSpace, ByetHost and WordPress.com Free. None asks for a card, and all of them run on oversold shared servers with hard limits. The specs below were verified on the providers’ own pages in November 2026; free tiers change without notice, so re-check before you commit.
| Provider | Free disk / bandwidth | Custom domain | Ads on your site | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InfinityFree | 5 GB / unlimited (practically ~50,000 hits a day) | Yes | None | Knowledge base + community forum only | Zero-visitor sites suspended after roughly 20–60 days; no backups; no domain email |
| GoogieHost | 1 GB NVMe / unmetered | Yes | None | Tickets advertised, even on free | One website; no automatic backups; India-founded (2012) but free servers are not in an India datacenter |
| AwardSpace | 1 GB / 5 GB (≈5,000 visits a month) | Yes — 1 hosted domain | None | 24/7 support advertised | Terms carry an inactivity-deactivation clause; quotas run out fast |
| ByetHost | 5 GB NVMe / unlimited | Yes | None | Community forum + support portal | 10 MB upload cap; subdomain-first signup |
| WordPress.com Free | 1 GB (hosted platform) | No — upgrade required | Yes — platform ads | Community forums only | No plugins or custom themes; yoursite.wordpress.com URL |
Narrower options are also live: FreeHostia’s “Chocolate” plan (250 MB disk, a 10 MB MySQL database, Chicago servers), Wix free (500 MB storage, forced Wix ads, no custom domain) and Google Sites, which is a static page builder with no PHP, databases or email. One name to cross off: 000webhost, the best-known free host for 17 years, closed permanently on 14 October 2024.
What does free hosting really cost you?
Free hosting costs nothing in rupees but takes away support, backups, domain email and any uptime remedy. The same six walls appear on essentially every free tier, and each one lands at the moment the site matters most.
- Forum-only support: InfinityFree promises a knowledge base and community forum; WordPress.com words it as “user forum support on the Free plan”. Nobody is paid to answer at 2 a.m.
- Quiet sites are removed: InfinityFree deactivates accounts with no visitors for roughly 20–60 days and deletes accounts left suspended too long; AwardSpace’s terms carry the same clause.
- Subdomains work against you: Google’s John Mueller has said hosting on free subdomains “makes SEO harder”, because the subdomain’s reputation belongs to the free host.
- No domain email: InfinityFree offers no POP3/IMAP/SMTP and disables PHP
mail(); WordPress.com and Google Sites offer none either. - No backups: “InfinityFree does not create or store any backups of free hosting accounts. It’s your responsibility” — their forum, verbatim. GoogieHost’s free tier is the same.
- No SLA: none of the surveyed free providers publishes an uptime guarantee with compensation.
The deepest cost is that free hosts close. 000webhost stopped new signups in July 2024 and gave existing users a migration deadline before the October shutdown.
When is free hosting the right call?
Free hosting is reasonable for a hobby page nobody depends on, a throwaway test install or a student exercise where downtime is a lesson rather than a loss. For a static portfolio, Google Sites is the safest free option because the pages sit on Google’s infrastructure and do not count against your account’s storage quota.
Anything that carries your name — a business site, a shop, a portfolio that wins clients — belongs on infrastructure with support, backups and a guarantee. Students who want real skills can look at the student hosting discount, which prices a full production stack below most paid upgrades.
Does WebJi® offer free hosting?
No. WebJi® has no free-forever plan; the risk-free way to test it is the money-back guarantee on paid hosting from ₹299 a month before 18% GST. Most hosting plans carry that guarantee: submit the request through billing inside the window shown at checkout and the first-term hosting fee returns to your payment method.
A free tier tests a throttled, unsupported copy of a product. A month on the real account tests the thing you would actually buy: the same NVMe servers paying clients use, email support 24/7 in Hindi and English with an average first reply under 60 minutes, and every limit printed on the price list. Domains, issued SSL certificates and delivered work sit outside the window, as the refund policy sets out; the exact window for your plan also shows at checkout.
Webji Turbo
Business sites that need headroom
₹399/mo
₹399 billed monthly, cancel anytime
- Unlimited NVMe storage
- 1 website · unlimited emails
- Global CDN
- ControlPanel.Systems + free SSL
- Optimised PHP + Load balancing
- Priority resource pool
Webji Scale
Agencies & multi-site builders
₹699/mo
₹699 billed monthly, cancel anytime
- Unlimited NVMe storage
- Unlimited domains & emails
- Global CDN
- ControlPanel.Systems + free SSL
- Optimised PHP + Load balancing
- Most CPU & concurrent processes
18% GST added at checkout · every order button opens billing.webji.in · prices checked 14 November 2026.
Prices sit before 18% GST and renew at the same row. A busy store or a portal with many concurrent logins is the wrong shape for shared hosting; look at VPS or cloud rows instead.
How to test WebJi® hosting inside the 30-day window
Treat the first 30 days as a structured test: build or copy the site, check mail and SSL, measure speed, and decide before the window closes. Put day 30 in the calendar on the day the account opens.
- Order Webji Launch at ₹299 a month (or a larger row) and note the activation date.
- Point your domain, then install WordPress or upload the site.
- Create a mailbox on your domain and send a test invoice to Gmail and Outlook.
- Raise one support ticket with a real question and time the reply.
- Before day 30, keep the plan or request the refund through billing.
The window suits a first WordPress site, a staged rebuild while the old host keeps serving visitors, or a migration rehearsal before nameservers move. It does not suit a live store that needs guaranteed resources from day one.
Moving from a free host to paid hosting
Export everything the free panel allows — files, the database and any mailbox data — before you cancel, because free tiers keep no backups to recover later. WebJi® then moves the site under its website migration service, free subject to terms and approval, and domains registered elsewhere can transfer in at the same time.
If the old site ran on WordPress.com Free, export the content as an XML file from the WordPress.com dashboard; plugins and themes do not travel because the free plan never allowed them. The WordPress hosting page covers the paid setup that replaces it.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What happened to 000webhost?
It closed permanently on 14 October 2024 after 17 years. New signups stopped in July 2024 and existing users were given a migration deadline. Older “best free hosting” lists that still recommend it are out of date.
Is there free PHP hosting at WebJi®?
No. There is no WebJi® PHP account that stays free. You can test PHP, MySQL and WordPress on a paid plan from ₹299 a month before 18% GST and use the money-back guarantee if the account does not suit you.
Can I use my own domain name on free hosting?
On InfinityFree, GoogieHost, AwardSpace and ByetHost, yes: you register the domain separately and point it over. On Wix free and WordPress.com Free, no, because a custom domain requires a paid plan.
Do free hosts put advertisements on my site?
The specialist free hosts in the table do not. Platform builders do: Wix free shows Wix ads you cannot remove, and WordPress.com displays ads on free sites that you cannot control or earn from.
Why does WebJi® not run a free-forever plan?
Because paid support staff, stored backups and an SLA with remedies cost real money, and a free plan funded by upsells delivers none of them. WebJi® has run hosting since 2005 for 12,000+ clients and prefers a refundable paid month over a free tier with no support.
Provider specs checked November 2026 · Reviewed by the WebJi® team, Jaipur, 14 November 2026.
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