Host ASP.NET or c# websites for free of cost

Think it is a fake title? , No its not. because you can host your ASP.NET or c# website for free. Wonder How? . Dont worry, here is the complete guide for hosting your website.

First things first, Most of you might probably know about ASP.NET or c#. But for those who dont, here is an Introduction.

ASP.NET or c# is mainly used for designing websites. Unlike php or any other languages, c# coding is done using Microsoft Visual Studio. We can easily do the designing by its drag and drop facility. Also ASP.NET is secure than languages like php. There are many job opportunities available for ASP.NET. Many computer graduates and post graduates are getting placed in c# programming.

So we have read an introduction about c#. Lets talk about its drawbacks. First and the most important one. You need to pay a good amount of money to host an ASP.NET website. Also there is less hosting providers available than other languages.

So for solving this problem, we are giving a complete guide on, How you can host your ASP.NET website for free. First of all, there are many limitations for this free hosting which i will be explaining later. This hosting is not suitable for professional websites because of these limitations. it is better suitable for Educational purposes.

How to host ASP.NET or c# website for free

We are achieving this by using a website called Somee.com. it is basically a ASP.NET website hosting provider. They offers a free ASP.NET hosting plan. Some of the notable features of their free .NET hosting plan is given below

Single web domain
150 MB storage capacity
5 GB Monthly transfer
15 MB MS SQL Database size
20 MB MS SQL Log size
40 MB Backup storage size
Forced Advertising
Can use your own Domains

Somee puts a banner advertisement at the bottom of every page and a small hyperlink ad as well. You can see it in the screenshot attached at the end of the post. Now Lets see how to create and host a .NET website using somee

Steps to Host .NET website in Somee.com

Goto Somee.com and click on the Learn more button under free .NET hosting

On the next page Click on Order now button under Free hosting package

Now fill the Registration form and click on Register new Account

They will send a validation code to the email you have given during the registration. Check your email and enter the validation code in the next page

After confirming the validation code , Login to your somee account and you can see a checkout page like below screenshot. Click on Checkout

You will be redirected to 'Create website' page. Fill the details of the website you are about to create and click on Create website. You have to remember the name you give to your website, Suppose you enter your website name as example, Then your website domain will be example.somee.com

On the next page you can see a message saying Your website was Created successfully. Click on Manage website at the bottom of the page

Click on File Manager from the left menu. Now you can see the files in your directory. Default.aspx is the one that executes first. Delete all the files in your directory.
Click on upload and Select all the files required for your website. it includes all the .aspx, .aspx.cs and web_config files and click on Upload files

Now you can access your default.aspx file by visiting your website url
Thats it. You have succesfully hosted your asp.net website without paying a single penny.

Now, This is the screenshot of a simple asp.net page with only a button and a single line of code.