Free WordPress Hosting
We Read the Fine Print

Yes — all 9 hosts in our comparison offer a forever-free plan with no credit card required and no trial expiration. InfinityFree and Byet.Host give you 5 GB of storage at no cost. AccuWeb Hosting includes full cPanel, 25 email accounts, and 30 GB of bandwidth — all free indefinitely. The trade-offs are limits: on traffic, storage, or support. Some plans suspend accounts for inactivity. None inject ads into your site, which is a minimum requirement for inclusion here. Read each full review to understand which limits apply to your project.

Every free plan has at least one meaningful catch. InfinityFree suspends your site when you hit 50,000 daily HTTP requests — roughly 1,667 page views per day if WordPress loads 30 assets per page. x10Hosting permanently deletes your account after 51 days of inactivity with no recovery option. FreeHostingNoAds runs PHP 7.4 (end-of-life December 2022), which blocks most modern plugins. Freehostia caps your MySQL database at 10 MB, which WordPress fills within days of installing a theme. Read each host’s full review to understand which limits apply to your use case.

Yes — eight of the nine hosts we review support custom domain mapping at no cost. InfinityFree, Byet.Host, AwardSpace, x10Hosting, FreeHostingNoAds, ProFreeHost, AccuWeb Hosting, and Freehostia all let you connect a domain you already own. CloudAccess.net is the exception — free accounts are locked to a .cloudaccess.net subdomain. The main variation is SSL: InfinityFree and AccuWeb provision Let’s Encrypt SSL automatically on custom domains, while AwardSpace and FreeHostingNoAds do not, meaning visitors will see a “Not Secure” browser warning.

Not the ones we list. Every host in our comparison is ad-free — no injected banner ads, pop-up windows, or footer links on your WordPress site. Ad-free operation is a minimum requirement for inclusion. Some free hosts not on this list inject ads silently into your HTML, typically in the footer or as a floating overlay — we exclude those entirely. We verify the no-ads policy by reviewing each host’s Terms of Service and running a live WordPress install to check the rendered HTML output for injected markup.

Upgrade when your free plan actively limits your site rather than just theoretically limiting it. Specific triggers: you’re hitting InfinityFree’s 50,000 daily hits cap and seeing suspension messages; you need email hosting on your own domain and your free host doesn’t support it; your site loads slowly for users outside the host’s single data center; or you need staging environments, automatic backups, or responsive support. Budget paid hosting starts around $2.99/month and removes most of these constraints. The paid hosts above — InMotion and Hostinger — are solid next steps.