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Creating your own Website

Updated: Jun 4, 2020

Frontend development is the most wanted job right own as all the companies want their website to be user friendly, eye-catching, trendy, and unique. There are a number of platforms that enable you to host your own website. All these websites are free for hosting.

If you want your won domain or custom URL, there are a number of websites that can be used. At the beginner level, you can use free hosting websites.


GitHub Pages

This platform is currently under Github. This was recently established to make hosting more convenient and easy. There are a number of templates available to choose from or you can create your own code using frontend tools like HTML, CSS, JS, etc. The only down part is that Backend tools can not be used. The only way to use backend on your website is to embed the backend code in the server and use GitHub Pages as your front end.



000WebHosting

This platform is currently under Hostinger, which is a paid hosting platform. You can use both Frontend tools, Backend tools, and also Database in 000Webhosting. Zero cost website hosting with PHP, MySQL, and cPanel. A free web hosting account can hold up to two active websites at a time. Both will have their own dedicated resources, separate FTP details, and can use any tool provided within the control panel. You will be provided with your own file manager, MySQL dashboard for both your websites. Check this page out which was made using 000webhosting.




Heroku

Heroku is a cloud platform that lets companies build, deliver, monitor, and scale apps. Heroku makes the processes of deploying, configuring, scaling, tuning and managing apps as simple and straightforward as possible. Heroku can be used to host the most complex webpages. It supports a number of languages like Django, Python, PHP, Ruby, Scala, Node.js, Go, and many more. It also contains its own CLI and Command-line tools which makes it more user friendly and easy for the users. This is a tedious process, but if your used to CLI and Command line, Go for it!


Python AnyWhere

Host, run, and code Python in the cloud! PythonAnywhere makes it easy to create and run Python programs in the cloud. You can write your programs in a web-based editor or just run a console session from any modern web browser. There's storage space on our servers, which let's user store their work and continue when there back. PythonAnywhere runs on super-powerful servers hosted by Amazon EC2, and you can take full advantage of that. Without paying a penny, you can run simple Python programs to help you explore your ideas. It supports all the versions of python from 2.7 to 3.6.



These free hosting platforms can be used to host your projects, portfolios, blogs, and this list can extend to your imagination. This provides a lot of freedom on what you do. The only down is that you can not have your own domain name and URL. All the above hosting websites will append their own URL over the domain name which you provide.

GitHub Pages and 000webhosting are the easiest tools available to host your own website.


Will soon post a video on how to create your own website using GitHub Pages and 000Webhosting.

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