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Get a free domain with Freenom and Cloudflare

Hiep Bao Le on May 24, 2020

Originally posted on my blog. Freenom is a domain registrar that provides unlimited free domains that last for one year. The only limit is that yo...

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Maydhya Maraj • Oct 22 '20

After all this is done, where can I host this website?

SimplexShotz • Jul 15 '21

I found that using GitHub Pages works quite well :D

Xan Surnamehere • Oct 9 '21 • Edited

I would recommend these for frontend apps: Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, Netlify, or GitHub Pages.

goyal-aman • Jan 4 '21

thanks for the great article. But who this is not suitable for professional usage? I am looking forward to hosting my portfolio in one of the domain I got using freenom. Could you explain on that point? Again thanks for this post.

jasper-kollinz • Jul 28 '21 • Edited

How to get an account there? The only way i could use is sign in via google ;/
When I want to checkout domains i get error "The address in your profile is not valid
The city in your profile is not valid"

Yashwanth Reddy • Jun 27 '20 • Edited

How to do URL forwarding?. By changing nameservers in freenom, URL forwarding is not working. Correct me if I'm doing wrong.

Xan Surnamehere • Oct 9 '21

Vercel is a great option for hosting and URL forwarding.

Block_Cipher • Sep 10 '21

Where should i host my website?

Xan Surnamehere • Oct 9 '21 • Edited

I would recommend these for frontend apps: Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, or Replit. (Possibly Glitch as well.) Some of these can also host your backend.