Digital World: Free Web and Email Hosting

You might be already purchased domain name for your own purpose but still thinking of the cheapest way to get a web and email hosting for your domain. There was one time that Google Apps for Domain provided for free, it was when the service just started in 2006, where you can subscribe for free for enough amount of email addresses that you can create, enough storage size, and homepage that you can develop. As early users, you can request for more email addresses quota. Now, Google Apps for Domain is no more for free, too bad.

So, what is alternative available out there now?

After done some searching through Google, this is recommended alternative that you can consider to use. For web hosting, 5GBFree provides 5GB storage space absolutely free and ad-free, but off course, there are two limitations: 20GB bandwidth and no email hosting provided. The first limitation should be OK for non-high traffic website, for personal website it should be sufficient enough. But, no email hosting provided is quite troublesome. Don't worry, there is another solution of free email hosting, subscribe to Zoho Mail which is totally free for 25 email addresses, 5GB mailbox storage each.

If you have done create account for both services, what you need to do is to keep using your current domain park NameServers (Don't use 5GBFree NameServers because it has no MX records), you just need to pointing the necessary A Records to 5GBFree IP Address. Then pointing MX Records to Zoho Mail. Refer to the setup guide from each service for detail.

That's it! You get your absolutely free web and email hosting! 

FYI, for web developing purpose, you can use either of two most popular CMS tools out there: Joomla or Wordpress, that you can easily install into 5GBFree hosting through its cPanel.