A free cloud website: how hosting without monthly fees works

For years a website meant a monthly hosting bill. With classic boxed solutions that is still true — but modern presentation sites can run in a completely different way, and for free.

A static site does not need an expensive server

A typical company presentation or sole trader’s website does not compute anything complex on each load. The pages can be generated ahead of time into finished files that are simply delivered to visitors. Such a site is called static, and large providers like Cloudflare run it on their worldwide network at no charge.

What you get

Beyond zero monthly cost, you also get speed — content is served from the location closest to the visitor. An encrypted connection (HTTPS) and protection against outages and traffic spikes are included.

Where the limits are

Free applies to presentations, portfolios and smaller sites. As soon as you need an e-shop with thousands of products or a demanding application, the solution changes — but even there, costs can stay far below traditional hosting.