Hostnodes Free free hosting
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Hostnodes Free
PHP portfolio, old-school blog, or lightweight MySQL-backed web application.
Facts
- Free allowance
- 1 PHP website · 2 GB NVMe SSD · 1 MySQL DB
- Plan limits
- Managed PHP and MySQL · free HTTPS · Frankfurt or New York
- Storage
- 2 GB NVMe SSD for site; 1 separate MySQL database included, size and backup quota not verified.
- Account
- Free Hostnodes signup without credit card.
- Retention
- Ongoing Free plan without a listed expiry. Inactivity rules and data-deletion notice not verified.
- Custom domain
- Custom domain linking on Free is not explicitly confirmed; free registration of a new domain not advertised.
- Password protection
- Simple shared viewer password not verified; control-panel login is not the same thing.
- Billing
- Ongoing Free plan with no card or trial. Free overage handling is not published.
- Execution
- Request-serving PHP/MySQL websites in an isolated environment; Free does not document a general-purpose worker runtime.
Worth knowing
No Free backups/SLA promised; SSH/SFTP appear in Starter paid features, so do not mark Free as supporting agent SSH deployment.
Reviewed 2026-11-14 from official documentation. Deployments have not been tested.