Web hosting with free trial period without entering card details, which I tested myself
Perhaps, if you are planning to launch your own website, my small review will be useful for you. Here I am only talking about companies that I am familiar with because I myself have been or am their client for some time and I know what I am talking about.
Free trial hosting is a good opportunity for:
Check the reliability of the hosting and the work of the support service without risking paying for a bad service.
Use a free month in order to familiarize yourself with all the options that hosting provides. And see if this is right for you.
Possibility to save money. If you are a beginner, you can spend a whole month preparing your future site for launching in the public domain for free.
There are many companies that offer a test period according to the scheme "now you pay, then if you do not like it within 30 days, we will refund your money."
I am talking only about companies that are ready to provide you with the opportunity to use their services for a month without any payment at all, and which do not require entering credit card details until you complete the test period and declare your desire to use the services of the company and beyond.
In my opinion, only such an offer can really be called a "free trial period". Everything else is a marketing ploy. Is not it?
1. ExclusiveHosting
I got to know this company in 2019. I was interested in the offer of a free trial period of 30 days without entering card data and I decided to give it a try. See what happens in practice.
I activated my account and got a trial period. During the free period, resources are limited and they are less than after switching to a paid service. But the resources provided were enough for me to host a site based on one of the CMS. Enough space for files, the ability to create a database of melons, a free SSL certificate - all this is possible during the free period.
For a month I watched how my site works and at the end of the test period I came to the conclusion that I simply have no reason to leave here. Everything works fine, the service is convenient, the support service is adequate and responds quickly enough.
Thus, after the end of the test period, I paid for hosting services for the next year. In this company, billing is annually.
There are three hosting plans here.
f your site is a set of static HTML pages or a landing page, the minimum Exclusive Plan will suit you. If your site is based on CMS WordPress or another uses databases, it is better to use the average tariff MULTI-EXCLISIVE. If you have a site with high traffic every day, the ENTERPRISE tariff is suitable for you.
If you want to try the free hosting period or order the VPS (there is no free trial period for the VPS) from ExclusiveHosting, follow the link.
Risk-free cloud hosting services at exclusive prices. A free domain registration. 30-day FREE TRIAL. 24/7/365 tech support.
2. SPRINTHOST
Good news. They do provide a free month of hosting with no card details required.
Bad news. Their website and interface are in Russian.
I think that most of the potential readers of my review do not speak russian and this will be an obstacle. But I will still mention this hosting, just in case, because it fits the topic of the review.
To start using this hosting, you just need to create an account. Within five minutes you can install the content management system from the application manager or upload your website files via FTP
At today's dollar / ruble exchange rate, the cost of tariffs is as follows:
Plan VOSTOK1 (storage 5gb, 5 sites per account, free ssl - 1,58$ (118 rubles)
Plan VOSTOK2 - (15 Gb, 20 sites) - 4$ (298 rubles)
Plan VOSTOK3 (20 GB, unlimites sites on account) - 6,68$
These prices are valid when billed annually (after the end of the free trial period). When paying on a monthly basis, the cost is about 20% higher
I can say that I have been familiar with this hosting provider for several years and I am completely satisfied with the quality of services. There is also a VDS rental and a dedicated server.
If you indicate my promo code SPH567843R during registration: you can get a 25% discount from the first payment (after a free trial period) for shared hosting services (only for plans VOSTOK1, VOSTOK2, VOSTOK3, offer does not work for other plans from the "PREMIUM" line or for VPS). They say that in this case I will also get some kind of discount on the payment for my hosting. Yes, I have a couple of sites on this hosting and the discount will not hurt me.
Here is a link to this hosting if you want to test.
3. HostBuddy - 60 days free trial
I'll be honest. I have just started testing the services of this hosting and cannot give an objective assessment of the quality of their work ...
Last month I noticed a generous offer from this provider. A whole 60 days test period without entering card data. I decided to check if this is as good as promised.
Indeed, immediately after registering and activating my account, I got access to the control panel and the ability to launch the site.
When everything was ready, I noticed the unexpected ... There is no free SSL certificate on the free test period ...
Come on guys ...
How can I use the site for 60 days without a SSL certificate in 2021? Google won't like it, and neither will visitors. I reported this issue to support and asked to deactivate my trial period. I do not need a FREE TEST PERIOD if I have to PAY FOR A SSL CERTIFICATE to use it. What's the point of this?
To my surprise, I received a response that a free certificate was activated for me. And a week later I received an email newsletter from which I realized that now this is a new practice and all users during the test period will be able to use a free test certificate.
Nice moment. The feedback worked.
In any case, if I was wrong, and by default the free certificate for the trial period is not available, you know that you can resolve this issue by contacting support.
Then I noticed another limitation of the test period. During the test period, no email account can be activated on this hosting. Well, you know, if you want to use an email with your domain name and use a web client for correspondence.
This is still not available here during the free period. I pointed this issue to the support team. Unfortunately, this time they did not come to meet me. They offered me to pay for at least one month, thus removing the restrictions of the test period and getting an additional month of hosting as a gift.
I'm still thinking. I still have a test period. Perhaps in the coming days I will prepare some site for which the presence of an email is not important and will continue to test this hosting. I will report on the results later.
You can also start testing this hosting and share your experience in the comments. To do this, follow the link below.
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That's all for now. If this topic interests someone next time, maybe I will talk about companies that provide a free or very cheap trial period for VPS. Good Luck!












