AwardSpace
- Free allowance
- Free plan, quoted: 'Storage: 1 GB', 'Bandwidth: 5 GB per month', 'Visits: Limited to approximately 5,000 visits per month', 'Databases: One MySQL database', 'Email: One email account'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- volume-quota5 GB of transfer a month and about 5,000 visits is the wall, and there is no CPU or memory figure published, so the first thing to fail is traffic rather than compute.
- Evidence
- documented9 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | Free plan, quoted: 'Storage: 1 GB', 'Bandwidth: 5 GB per month', 'Visits: Limited to approximately 5,000 visits per month', 'Databases: One MySQL database', 'Email: One email account'. The plan is 'Free forever' with 'No Credit Card', one domain and three subdomains, PHP and a one-click installer. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; free-forever |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | email no card: the free-hosting page states 'No Credit Card' beside 'Free forever', so no payment method is taken and no hold exists. The signup form's own fields are not described in any evidence row, so whether an email, phone number or ID document is required is unknown; kind kept as email without an evidence row stating it. |
| Egress | 'Free Hosting - Storage: 1 GB - Bandwidth: 5 GB per month - Visits: Limited to approximately 5,000 visits per month - Databases: One MySQL database - Email: One email account', quoted free allowance: 5 GB per month price per tb: not published: the free-hosting page and the limitations page state 5 GB per month as the maximum and give no overage price |
| Interface | ftp web control panel with a File Manager, plus FTP: a default FTP account is created at sign-up and the free plan allows a 15 MB upload per file over FTP; SSH is not supported on the free plan; no REST API or CLI is documented (unverified) |
| Tooling | a default FTP account, per https://www.awardspace.com/kb/basic-features/: "we automatically create a default FTP account on your behalf"; no client is named on that page |
| Composes with | a free PHP host with one MySQL database and no card is a place for a small endpoint or a cron-driven page that outlives a free PaaS trial; the 5 GB monthly transfer stops it from serving anything heavy. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | Aggregator claim checked: free-for.dev says 'Free web hosting + a free short domain, PHP, MySQL, App Installer, Email Sending & No Ads'. The vendor confirms PHP, MySQL, one mailbox and no ads, and adds the numbers the aggregator omits: 1 GB disk, 5 GB a month, about 5,000 visits. The 'free short domain' is the part that did not reproduce: the free plan includes one domain the user brings plus three subdomains on the provider's own domain. CPU and memory are unpublished, so shape is null rather than inferred from the disk. |
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Evidence 9
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | www.awardspace.com/kb/what-are-the-limitations-on-web-space- | 'Free Hosting - Storage: 1 GB - Bandwidth: 5 GB per month - Visits: Limited to approximately 5,000 visits per month - Databases: One MySQL database - Email: One email account', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.awardspace.com/free-hosting/ | 'Free forever', 'No Credit Card', 'one domain and add up to three free subdomains', 'Absolutely free website hosting without ads', quoted |
| 2026-11-03 | www.awardspace.com/kb/what-are-the-limitations-on-web-space- | the free plan has a 5 GB per month bandwidth cap |
| 2026-11-03 | www.awardspace.com/free-hosting/ | 5 GB a month is the maximum on the free plan; no overage price is stated |
| 2026-11-03 | www.awardspace.com/free-hosting/ | files are managed through a web file manager |
| 2026-11-04 | www.awardspace.com/kb/file-size-limits-free-premium-hosting- | the free hosting plan uploads over FTP as well as the File Manager |
| 2026-11-04 | www.awardspace.com/kb/basic-features/ | part of the text of Interface, above |
| 2026-11-04 | www.awardspace.com/kb/create-ssh-account/ | SSH is not available on the free plan |
| 2026-11-04 | www.awardspace.com/kb/basic-features/ | the page names an FTP account created at sign-up and no other client |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": null,"free_tier_kind": "free-forever","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 3
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer