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Free hosting suggestions with WordPress one-click install

by wfvoodoo
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I'm looking for a company that offers free hosting and the option to install WordPress via one-click via their control panel.

As background I will use this to host various test sites I plan creating, mainly for my own learning and testing purposes. I will not use it for final serious/money-making sites so not too concerned about high performance or storage space and it's fine if my domain names have to be a sub-domain with the host name in it.

Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author webhosting
    Freehostia offers this for free.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Freehostia, I think.

      Byethost doesn't have the 1-click installation.

      000WebHost has it in theory, but it isn't working at the moment, I've heard.
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  • Profile picture of the author wfvoodoo
    Thanks for all the responses (WOW that was quick). I'm afraid by original email was not clear. I actually have an acount with hostgator already (who are good) but what I really want is to be able to register multiple new domain names for free, so Ican effectively create various new sites for testing/learning purposes for free.

    Not sure of that will work with freehostia and others, I'll check them out.
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  • Profile picture of the author impro42
    Free domains? None that I know of
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  • Profile picture of the author wfvoodoo
    Hi impro

    One thing I was thinking of was if I used sub domains piggybacking on the hosts domain name. For example if the host is examplehost my domain may be www.examplehost.mysitename.com

    Something like that, I'm not sure if it exists. Just thnking of the cheapest possible way of creating a few test sites (they would never be commercial) just for my own learning and testing purposes.

    Someone suggested .info sites as well which are usually cheaper
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  • Profile picture of the author Yadira Barbosa
    Just remember free hosting = not your site entirely you are working for someone else.

    You can lose everything without a notice.
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    • Profile picture of the author DiTesco
      The only host that I know of that may interest you is that of Hostzzilla. It is a free cloud hosting and is only limited to disk storgae space of 100mb. It offers a cPanel with WP 1-click install and you can use it for unlimited domains. If you are just going to use use it for testing purposes, it is great. Hope that helps.

      Here's a post I wrote about that provides more info Build Your Online Business Using Free Cloud Web Hosting: HostZilla
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Yadira Barbosa View Post

      Just remember free hosting = not your site entirely you are working for someone else.

      You can lose everything without a notice.
      This isn't right, Yadira.

      You seem to be confusing "Web 2.0 sites" (HubPages, Squidoo, Blogspot etc., where what you say is true) with "free hosts" (Byethost, 000WebHost, Freehostia etc., where it isn't).

      At a host like Byethost, free-hosted sites and paid-hosted sites are hosted together on the same servers. Who owns and controls the pages and their content is not determined by whether they're paid for or not. That isn't how their business model works.

      Hosting somewhere like Byethost or Freehostia or 000WebHost, in contrast to somewhere like Squidoo or Blogspot where you can never own or control the pages, is a good and safe way for a marketer to do things without having to pay for the hosting.
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  • Profile picture of the author wfvoodoo
    Just to follow up I did find a site called www.yola.com which does allow me to create a site for free piggybacking on their domain so the address would be http://mysitename.yola.com

    However doesn't seem to offer one click word press install so think I might have to just go down the normal domain rego process, at NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO- they give a .info for almost free (for one year) when you get a .com so should be able to get 2 practice sites for less than $10 total which is alright.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by wfvoodoo View Post

      Just to follow up I did find a site called www.yola.com
      I know it well. It used to be called "Synthasite". I still have some little sites there.

      Originally Posted by wfvoodoo View Post

      which does allow me to create a site for free piggybacking on their domain so the address would be http://mysitename.yola.com
      Ah yes, they have that, too. I use my own domain-names for Yola sites.

      Originally Posted by wfvoodoo View Post

      However doesn't seem to offer one click word press install
      No, indeed ... I think you can't have Wordpress there at all. You have to use their built-in site-builder, just like at Weebly, as far as I know?

      Originally Posted by wfvoodoo View Post

      they [Go Daddy] give a .info for almost free (for one year) when you get a .com so should be able to get 2 practice sites for less than $10 total which is alright.
      Or you can buy .info's at Namecheap for $2.99 each (with a year's free "whois protection", if you want that). I see that a .info free with a .com isn't a bad deal, either.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kingfish85
    Not to be rude, but instead of checking & testing 500 different places trying to figure out who offers what for free, why not just shell out a few bucks a month to get what you're looking for?

    There's plenty of cheap bargain basement web hosts that will allow you to do exactly what you're looking for. Reliable? I can't say. Cheap tends to go well with overloaded servers, spammers and other unwanted sites/services.

    https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...DVpfPcN8&pws=0

    Again, not trying to be rude, but even though you say you're not worried about the performance or uptime - but most of the people who say this are the first ones blowing up the phones/help desk relentlessly when something isn't working correctly.

    Servers cost money. Tech support costs money. Software installers cost money. Security costs money. Maintenance costs money. See the pattern? I recently came across another forum about free web hosts and it was literally nothing but complaining about them not having this or that & scam companies etc.

    I'd recommend just putting up a few bucks a month and get what you need to do your testing.
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  • Profile picture of the author stevenrenolds
    I wouldn't go with a free host for security and reliability reasons. Hostgator offers one click install with multiple different websites scripts. IE wordpress, mybb, drupal, etc.
    Originally Posted by wfvoodoo View Post

    I'm looking for a company that offers free hosting and the option to install WordPress via one-click via their control panel.

    As background I will use this to host various test sites I plan creating, mainly for my own learning and testing purposes. I will not use it for final serious/money-making sites so not too concerned about high performance or storage space and it's fine if my domain names have to be a sub-domain with the host name in it.

    Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author lanew
    I agree with KingFish above. There are a ton of places to get cheap hosting and not deal with the headaches of finding free. If you're testing WP, why not do it on WAMP?
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    • Profile picture of the author Kingfish85
      Originally Posted by lanew View Post

      I agree with KingFish above. There are a ton of places to get cheap hosting and not deal with the headaches of finding free. If you're testing WP, why not do it on WAMP?
      WAMP is a good idea & I wold recommend this as well.
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