Every tutorial here ends with "upload it" — this page is the where. The honest version: most beginner projects can be hosted free, and one cheap paid option covers everything our tutorials teach. Disclosure: some links below are affiliate links (details); it doesn't change the advice.
If your project is plain HTML/CSS/JS files (everything in our beginner tutorials), free static hosts work: Netlify is the easiest first deploy ever made, Cloudflare Pages is the fastest. The moment a tutorial mentions cron jobs (the self-updating site), PHP, or running Python on the server, you want classic shared hosting — that's our top pick below, and it's also the simplest mental model: a folder on the internet with a file manager.
Beginners following our tutorials: file-manager uploads, PHP, databases, cron jobs, and email on one cheap plan
Why this one: it's what the author runs 49 sites on, and every upload instruction in our tutorials maps 1:1 to its file manager. Verified 2026-06-04 — promo pricing changes; check the current price.
Free, fast static sites on a custom domain with effectively unlimited bandwidth
The easiest free deploy that exists: drag your folder onto the dashboard, site is live
Free hosting for people already learning the git workflow (or planning to)
Next.js and v0-generated projects — it's the same company, the integration is seamless
Free hosts give you a subdomain (yoursite.netlify.app) — fine for practice, wrong for anything public-facing. A .com runs ~$10–12/year at any registrar; buy the domain separately from hosting so you're never locked in.
Yes, and you should if you're unsure. Moving a static site is copying files — fifteen minutes. Start on Netlify today; move to paid shared hosting the day you need cron jobs or PHP.
App builders host what you build in them — convenient, but the hosting is part of their subscription and your site lives in their platform. The options on this page are for code you own as files, which is everything our tutorials produce. See the decision guide for that fork in the road.