In this post I will show you how to build  a website with a free host and domain without even paying a dime. If I can not accomplished that at the end of the post, You can call me a liar (hehe). I am writing this post from my experience. I will try to explain single details and in easy terms. The amount of coding you will need, I will try to keep it as minimal as I can. If your are an intermediate user you can skip through the little details or this maybe old and obsolete information to you. The only catch about this is that, the domain you will get will not be a “.com”. It will be “co.cc” ( I will explain it later in the post. )Would you rather have  alex.co.cc or alex.blogspot.com or alex.wordpress.com?  If you want have your own website but you do not want to pay monthly because you maybe just need little space and bandwidth or maybe you have a website already and want  a free domain for testing purpose, this method is for you.

First here is a demo of a free domain I set up for this tutorial

First Step

Three terms you have to know:

1. Domain: Domain is like an address such as www.example.com. It is the address you would type to get to any website.      “The main purpose of a domain name is to provide symbolic representations, i.e., recognizable names, to mostly numerically addressed Internet resources.” Read up more …. There are different types of domain addon domains, parked domains and sub domains.  For this article we are going to use Addon domain.
2. Web Host :  In easy terms, web host allows to host your files online. You can access this file from anywhere .  If you host  your web files this can accessed by typing the domain adderss . Read up more…
3. FTP: File transfer Protocol . Using a FTP software you will upload your web pages to the server. Download any of the free FTP from here .

Second Step

You will need to sign up for a account with a free  web host service. The two free best web host:

1. Byethost: Best Free web host. Up to 5GB space also allows Mysql Database (Important if you want install WordPress,Drupal other softwares), Automatic Fantastico type installer.
2. 110mb: Only disadvantage Mysql database is not free. If you have plain HTML pages then you will be okay.

For this tutorial, I am using Byethost. I would recommend that. When you sign up for the Byethost you should get an email with all the information you will need. They should look like this:

Save this information.

Now you need to sign up for a free domain here. There 60% chance that you will get the domain name you want. That’s what made me get a domain from co.cc. I could not get the the domain name I wanted in .com.

If you want your website to act like a real domain you have to set up the name server with co.cc  or you can just use url forwarding which will hide the Byethost’s big url. It is easy to set up. For the name server you have wait 48 hours or less. Here is where you would choose how you want your site domain address  to work:

Third Step

Before uploading any files lets set up the domain to make it work like a real domain. Log into your vistapanel and Go to Addon domain and enter the domain address you singed

Fourth Step

When you added the domain log in to your account using any FTP software. You should see a new folder added in your web space . That is where  you will upload your files.

Now if you want to install wordpress use fatastico installer from vistapanel or  if you want a pre-built CSS template download it from  here and just change the content in a text editor and you will have your free website.

Hope this is helps someone building a free website. If you need any more help and a suggestions shout in the comment.