--- title: "Web Hosting - Activating the free hosting plan" description: "Find out how to activate your free hosting plan" url: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/web-hosting/activate-start10m lang: en lastUpdated: 2026-06-08 --- # Web Hosting - Activating the free hosting plan ## Objective With [free hosting](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/domains/free-web-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](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/domains/). :::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](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/web-hosting/) directly from our website or your OVHcloud Control Panel . ::: **Find out how to activate your free hosting plan.** ## Requirements - A [domain name](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/domains/) in your OVHcloud Control Panel, detached from any web hosting plan, and with no associated [MX Plan](/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborative-solutions/mx-plan/email-generalities.md) :::info The free hosting is **only** available to our customers in Europe. ::: *** ### OVHcloud Control Panel Access - **Direct link:** Domain names - **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** Go to the Domain names page, then choose the domain name concerned. ![Domain Names](/images/assets/screens/control-panel/product-selection/web-cloud/domain-names.png) **Step 2** In the **General information** box, you will see **Free web hosting and email**. Click ... on the right-hand side, then Enable. ![enable 100m](/images/assets/screens/control-panel/product-selection/web-cloud/domain-dns/general-information/enable-100m.png)The activation window will appear. Section **1** will detail the plan and its price — click Next. For section **2**, choose the changes you need to make to your DNS zone: **Step 3** ![activate100m](/images/assets/screens/control-panel/product-selection/web-cloud/order/order-100m-step-2.png)| 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 OVHcloud Control Panel, 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](/en/guides/web-cloud/domains/dns-zone-edit.md). ::: 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 OVHcloud Control Panel . 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](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/web-hosting/). ::: Once your order has been confirmed, you will be sent an email with the information for the [FTP connection](/en/guides/web-cloud/web-hosting/ftp-connection.md) to your free hosting plan. Please refer to our guide on [Creating an MX Plan email account](/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborative-solutions/mx-plan/email-creation.md) 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](/en/guides/web-cloud/web-hosting/ftp-connection.md) [Creating an email address with an MX Plan solution](/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborative-solutions/mx-plan/email-creation.md) [Managing SSL certificates on a Web Hosting plan](/en/guides/web-cloud/web-hosting/ssl-on-webhosting.md) For specialised services (SEO, development, etc.), contact [OVHcloud partners](https://partner.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/directory/). If you would like assistance using and configuring your OVHcloud solutions, please refer to our [support offers](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/support-levels/). Join our [community of users](https://community.ovhcloud.com/).