NVMe, not spinning rust
Every account sits on NVMe SSD storage. Database queries and page loads are noticeably quicker than the SATA drives most budget hosts still run.
Free Web Hosting
Free web hosting for 30 days. Then 99p a month.
A full DirectAdmin hosting account — NVMe storage, free SSL, one-click WordPress, real databases — free for your first 30 days. After that it is £0.99 per month, and that is the whole price list.
Exactly what “free” means here
- Free for 30 days. A full hosting account with nothing held back — no feature restrictions during the trial.
- No card details required to start. You can sign up and run your site for the whole 30 days without giving us any payment information.
- Nothing can be charged automatically, because we have nothing to charge. Payment details are only taken if you decide to continue.
- Then £0.99/month if you choose to carry on. That is the ongoing price — it does not rise after the first year.
- No setup fee and no hidden charges of any kind.
- You bring your own domain. Traxio does not sell domain names, so you will need one you already own or register elsewhere.
What you get
A real hosting account, not a demo
The free 30 days is the full product. Nothing is locked behind the paid tier, because there is no paid tier — just the same plan continuing.
Free SSL, automatically
An SSL certificate is issued and renewed for your domain without you doing anything. Your visitors get the padlock and Google gets the ranking signal it wants.
DirectAdmin, not a cut-down panel
You get the same control panel professional hosts use — file manager, DNS editor, email accounts, database admin, cron jobs, PHP version switching.
400+ one-click apps
Softaculous installs WordPress, MyBB, phpBB, SMF, Joomla, Drupal and hundreds more in about thirty seconds, database and all.
No adverts, ever
We do not inject banners, pop-unders, branded footers or analytics into your pages. Your HTML is your HTML.
A price that does not jump
£0.99 a month is the renewal price, not an introductory rate that triples in year two. There is no “first term discount” sleight of hand.
The honest version
Why most free hosting is not really free
Most “free web hosting” is free because you are the product. The two common models are advertising — the host injects banners into your pages and keeps the revenue — and the subdomain trap, where your site lives at yourname.freehost.example, so every visitor, backlink and search ranking you build belongs to somebody else. Move away later and you start from zero.
There is a third model that is less obvious: the deliberately painful free tier. 100MB of storage, no databases, PHP disabled, no SSL, an account that suspends if you get more than a handful of visitors. It exists to make the paid plan look reasonable, and the paid plan is usually £5–£10 a month.
What Traxio does instead
We give you the whole account for 30 days, then charge less than a pound a month to keep it. At that price we do not need adverts and we do not need to cripple the free tier, because the free tier and the paid tier are the same thing. The trade is that support is community-powered rather than a ticket desk, and the resource limits are honest rather than “unlimited”.
£0.99 a month is £11.88 a year. A domain from most registrars costs roughly the same again. So a fully self-hosted website on your own domain, with SSL, email and WordPress, runs at around £20–£25 for the first year — and you own all of it.
Getting started
Live in about fifteen minutes
1
Have a domain ready
Any domain you already own works. If you do not have one, register it with a registrar of your choice first — you keep full control of it.
2
Create your Traxio account
Sign up and choose Traxio Free Start. No card details are needed — you are not asked for payment information at all until the free period ends.
3
Point your domain at us
Update your nameservers or A record. Our knowledgebase has a step-by-step guide for every major registrar.
4
Install and build
Open DirectAdmin, run Softaculous, and pick WordPress, a forum, or upload your own HTML. SSL is issued automatically once DNS resolves.
One plan, one price
Traxio Free Start
We stopped running four tiers. There is one plan, it does everything, and it costs less than a coffee per year.
30 Days Free
Traxio Free Start
FREE
for 30 days — then £0.99/month
- 5GB NVMe SSD storage
- 10GB bandwidth per month
- DirectAdmin control panel
- Free SSL certificate (auto-renewing)
- Softaculous one-click installer
- PHP 7.4 – 8.3, switchable
- MySQL / MariaDB databases
- FTP & file manager access
- Email accounts on your domain
- Cron jobs
- Community-powered support
No card required to start • No setup fee • Bring your own domain
Prices shown in GBP. Traxio is a UK company; servers are located in Montreal, Canada.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Is Traxio hosting actually free, or is there a catch?
It is free for 30 days, with no card details required and no reduced feature set. After 30 days it continues at £0.99 per month if you choose to carry on — and if you do not, nothing is charged, because we never had your payment details in the first place. We are deliberately not calling this “free forever” because it is not, and hosts that use that phrase are almost always funding it with adverts, forced upsells or a subdomain you do not own.
Do I need to buy a domain from Traxio?
No, and you cannot — Traxio does not sell domain names. You point a domain you already own at our nameservers. If you do not own one yet you can register it with any registrar you like, typically for around £8–£12 a year, and it stays entirely yours.
Will you put adverts on my website?
No. Traxio never injects adverts, banners, tracking scripts or branded footers into hosted sites. That is the usual business model for “free forever” hosting and it is the reason we charge £0.99 instead.
What happens to my files if I cancel?
Nothing is deleted the moment you cancel. Your account stays accessible until the end of the paid period, and if an invoice goes unpaid there is a further 14 days before termination — suspended at day 7, deleted at day 14. You can take a full backup of your files and databases from DirectAdmin at any point up to that. We would rather you leave with your data than feel trapped.
Is 5GB of storage and 10GB of bandwidth enough?
For a personal blog, a portfolio, a small business brochure site or a starting forum, comfortably yes — a typical WordPress install with a year of posts sits well under 1GB. It is not enough for video hosting, large file downloads or a site doing serious traffic, and we would rather tell you that up front.
Do you offer one-to-one technical support?
Not in the traditional sense. Support is community-powered: a knowledgebase, tutorials, guides and a user community where solutions are searchable and shared. That is a deliberate trade — it is what lets the price be £0.99 rather than £5.
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