Web Hosting - Activating the free hosting plan

Find out how to activate your free hosting plan

Objective

With free hosting, OVHcloud offers you a 100 MB web hosting plan, and an email account with 5 GB of storage.
This guide will show you how to activate a free hosting on your domain name.

Warning

This 100 MB free hosting plan is suitable for a simple webpage presentation, it does not include a database.
It is also suitable if you do not need several MX plan email accounts.
If you would like to set up a website with several pages and require a database, such as a CMS (WordPress, Joomla!, PrestaShop, Drupal, etc.), please order one of our web hosting plans directly from our website or your .

Find out how to activate your free hosting plan.

Requirements

A domain name in your OVHcloud Control Panel, detached from any web hosting plan, and with no associated MX Plan

Info

The free hosting is only available to our customers in Europe.

OVHcloud Control Panel Access

Direct link:
Navigation path: Web Cloud > Domain names > Select your domain name

Instructions

To activate your free hosting plan, click on the tabs below to view each of the 3 steps.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Go to the page, then choose the domain name concerned.

Choice	Description
DNS A record	The domain name will point to the IP address of the free hosting plan.
MX DNS record	The email servers (`mx1.mail.ovh.net`, `mx2.mail.ovh.net`, `mx3.mail.ovh.net`, etc.) of OVHcloud will be applied to the domain name.

Warning

If you tick one or both of the DNS A record and DNS MX record boxes, this will overwrite the configuration originally set up in your domain's DNS zone.
Tick both boxes to automatically configure your domain name with the free hosting and email service included.

If your DNS zone is not managed in your , you will need to make the modifications manually in your external DNS zone.

For more details, please refer to our guide on Editing an OVHcloud DNS zone.

Section 3 reminds you of the pricing of the offer.

During section 4, you must read the contracts and confirm your order.

Info

If your project will quickly evolve to a hosting plan with a database, larger storage space or more email accounts, you can switch directly and only from free hosting to a Personal hosting plan from your .

To switch to the Professional or Performance plan, you will need to switch from the free hosting to the Personal plan beforehand.

You can also choose to delete the free offer after backing up your hosting data and the contents of your email account.

For more details, see our hosting offers.

Once your order has been confirmed, you will be sent an email with the information for the FTP connection to your free hosting plan.

Please refer to our guide on Creating an MX Plan email account to take advantage of the email account included with your free hosting plan.

Go further

Logging in to your Web Hosting plan’s storage space

Creating an email address with an MX Plan solution

Managing SSL certificates on a Web Hosting plan

For specialised services (SEO, development, etc.), contact OVHcloud partners.

If you would like assistance using and configuring your OVHcloud solutions, please refer to our support offers.

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