Export Host Website for Free to HTML

Hosting a website for free isn't a scam. It's not a trial. Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages, and Cloudflare Pages all offer genuinely free hosting. Your site stays up indefinitely, with your own domain, with SSL.

Here's exactly how to do it.

Step one: Get static HTML files. This is the key requirement. Free hosts serve static files, they don't run PHP or databases. If your site is on Wix, Squarespace, or WordPress, you need to export it first.

Our tool handles this. Enter your site URL, we crawl every page, you download a ZIP with clean HTML files. Works with any live website. Takes about 2 minutes.

Step two: Create a Netlify account. Go to netlify.com, sign up with email or GitHub. Free tier, no credit card asked.

Step three: Deploy. This is the wild part, you literally drag and drop. On your Netlify dashboard, there's a box that says "drag and drop your site folder here." Find the folder you unzipped. Drag it in. Done. Your site is live.

Your site gets a random URL like happy-einstein-3f7d2a.netlify.app. Works immediately. SSL included. CDN included.

Step four: Add your domain. If you have a custom domain, go to Site settings > Domain management > Add custom domain. Netlify gives you DNS records to add at your domain registrar. Takes about 10 minutes for DNS to propagate.

That's the entire process. Export site, create account, drag folder, add domain. Free hosting, running.

Vercel works similarly. Sign up at vercel.com, click "Add New Project," upload your folder or connect a Git repo. Same result, free hosting with CDN and SSL.

GitHub Pages is slightly more technical. You'll need a GitHub account and basic familiarity with repos. Create a repository, upload your files, enable Pages in settings. Free forever.

Cloudflare Pages offers unlimted bandwidth, which is unusual. Sign up at pages.cloudflare.com, connect Git or upload directly. Their free tier is genuinly generous.

What works on free hosting: Portfolios, blogs, small business sites, landing pages, documentation, resumes. Basically any site that's primarily content.

What doesn't work: E-commerce with payments, user logins and accounts, dynamic content that changes per user. Those need server-side code that free static hosts don't run.

For forms, use Formspree or Netlify Forms, both have free tiers. For comments, Disqus works. For analytics, Plausible or Google Analytics. Dynamic features can be added, they just run as seperate services.

Stop paying $10 to $50 monthly for hosting. If your site is mostly static content, and most sites are, free hosting is better. Faster, more secure, and actually free.