When you build a website, you need a place to 'host' it — a server that stores your files and delivers them to visitors. Hosting ranges from free to thousands of rupees per year. Here's what you need to know.
What Free Hosting Actually Means
At VwebStudio, when we say 'free hosting for the first 3 months', we mean we deploy your website on Vercel's free tier and Firebase's free tier — both enterprise-grade services used by thousands of companies globally.
These free tiers are genuinely free and genuinely reliable. They're not the unreliable free hosting from 2010 that went down every week.
Vercel Free Tier Includes: - 100 GB bandwidth per month - Automatic SSL certificate (https://) - Global CDN (fast loading everywhere in India) - Serverless functions for contact forms
Firebase Free Tier Includes: - Firestore database: 50,000 reads/day, 20,000 writes/day - Storage: 5 GB - Authentication: 50,000 monthly users
For a typical small business website with a few hundred visitors per day, you will never exceed these limits.
When Does Free Hosting Have Limits?
If your website gets very high traffic (10,000+ visitors per day consistently) or stores large amounts of data, you'd need to upgrade. But for 99% of small businesses in India, the free tier is more than enough.
Paid Hosting: When It Makes Sense
After the first 3 months, we charge ₹599–₹2,999/mo for hosting management. This is not the raw Vercel/Firebase cost (which is often still free or very low) — it covers: - Domain management - SSL renewal - Infrastructure monitoring - Server configuration updates - Technical support if something breaks
What to Avoid
Cheap shared hosting (cPanel hosts like Hostinger, GoDaddy Indian plans under ₹100/month) often have slow loading speeds, limited resources, and poor support. For modern Next.js websites, Vercel is far superior.
The Bottom Line
For small businesses, our setup (Vercel + Firebase on free tiers) gives you enterprise-level hosting at zero monthly cost. Your website will load fast, have an SSL padlock, and be available 99.9% of the time.