Neocities
Create your own free website. Unlimited creativity, zero ads.
About Neocities
Neocities is a free static web hosting service and community for personal, hand-built HTML websites, founded by Kyle Drake in 2013 as a spiritual successor to GeoCities. It provides an in-browser HTML editor, drag-and-drop uploads, a CLI and API, and a social layer for following and discovering sites. The service runs without ads or investors and is funded by a $5/month Supporter plan and donations.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Free tier includes 1 GB storage and 200 GB bandwidth with no ads or watermarks on your site
- Supporter plan is inexpensive at $5/month for 50 GB storage, custom domains, and multiple sites
- Built-in HTML editor lets beginners publish a real website without installing anything
- Community features (follows, tags, comments, gallery) give personal sites an audience that plain static hosts lack
- Developer-friendly extras: CLI, API, WebDAV, and its own anycast CDN with HTTPS
- Independent, donation-funded, and open source, with a stated policy of never selling data for AI training
Cons
- Static hosting only; no server-side code, databases, or backend functions
- Free accounts have file type restrictions and cannot use custom domains
- No visual drag-and-drop page builder, so most users need to write HTML and CSS by hand
- No Git-based deploy previews or build pipeline like Netlify or Vercel
- Support on the free plan is limited to community resources; email support requires Supporter
Key Features
In-browser HTML editor
Edit HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files directly in the browser and publish changes without any desktop tools.
Drag-and-drop file uploads
Upload files and folders from your computer by dragging them into the site dashboard; WebDAV uploading is available on the Supporter plan.
Command line tool and API
Deploy and manage sites from the terminal with the Neocities CLI, or build integrations with the public developer API.
Global anycast CDN with SSL
Sites are served from Neocities' own caching anycast CDN across more than a dozen datacenters, with HTTPS and HTTP/2 on every subdomain.
Custom domains
Supporter accounts can point their own domain at a Neocities site with an automatically issued SSL certificate.
Community discovery
Browse a gallery of sites, follow favorites to see their updates in a news feed, comment on sites, and use tags as web-ring-style discovery.
RSS feeds and site stats
Every site gets an RSS feed of updates, and site owners can review visitor and hit statistics.
One-click backups
Download a full copy of your site files at any time, so your content is never locked in.
AI crawler blocking
Control whether AI crawlers can access your site; Neocities states it never sells user data for AI training.
Open source platform
The code that runs Neocities is published publicly for inspection.
Pricing
- 1 GB storage
- 200 GB bandwidth
- Free yoursite.neocities.org subdomain with SSL
- Global anycast CDN
- In-browser site editor and CLI
- One-click backups, RSS feed, site tags
- No advertising
- 50 GB storage
- 3,000 GB bandwidth
- Custom domains with SSL certificates
- Multiple site creation
- WebDAV uploading
- No file upload type restrictions
- Hotlinking and CORS support
- Site stats history
- Basic email support
Best For
Personal homepages and portfolios
Build a handmade personal site, art portfolio, or digital garden on a free subdomain or your own domain.
Learning HTML and CSS
Students and educators use the in-browser editor to write code and see it live on the web immediately.
Fan sites and online zines
Host fan shrines, zines, and community archives that benefit from Neocities' discovery and follow features.
Small static projects
Publish project notes, documentation, or experiments with the CLI or API, served from a global CDN.
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