Free web hosting for small business, built to bring in customers
Put your shop, clinic, café or agency online in under a minute. Your site loads fast from Cloudflare’s edge in 330+ cities, writes its own SEO + GEO files, and comes with a blog that answers what customers search for on Google and ask ChatGPT.
What is web hosting for a small business?
Web hosting for a small business keeps your company website online at a public https address, so customers can find your services, prices, hours and contact details at any time. On Fylo.Host you upload the site (an HTML file, a ZIP, a folder, or the code an AI tool wrote), connect your domain, and it is served from Cloudflare’s edge in 330+ cities with free SSL and no third-party ads.
Most hosts stop there. Fylo also gives the site a blog, writes the sitemaps, schema and llms.txt that Google and AI assistants read, optimizes every upload for speed and catches broken links, all from one dashboard with no plugins to update.
- Cost to start
- Free, no credit card
- Free plan
- 1 site, 10 MB, 1,000 visits a month
- Your own domain
- From the Starter plan
- Contact forms
- Pro and Business plans
- Blog
- Every plan, 10 posts free
- Ads on your site
- Never ours
- What you can upload
- HTML, ZIP, a folder or pasted code
Why most small business websites never win a customer
It’s rarely the design. The site is slow on a phone, invisible to search, or quietly eating hours every month.
Too slow on a phone
Most customers look up a local business on their phone. Google’s own research found more than half of mobile visitors leave a page that takes longer than three seconds, straight to the next result.
Missing from Google and AI answers
Without a sitemap, schema and pages that answer real questions, search engines have little to rank, and ChatGPT or Perplexity have nothing to quote when someone asks for a recommendation.
A second job to maintain
Plugin updates, security patches, renewal price jumps and a builder you can’t leave. Every hour spent on the website is an hour not spent on customers.
You run the business. Fylo runs the website.
The four things a small business site needs to bring in work, set up for you instead of sold as add-ons.
Fast on every phone
Pages are optimized on upload and served from the edge location nearest each customer.
- ✓Global edge network, 330+ cities
- ✓~100ms TTFB with edge cache on paid plans
- ✓Minify, WebP images, font subsetting
- ✓Free SSL on every site
A blog that answers customers
Write posts in a WordPress-style editor and publish them at /blog/ on your own site.
- ✓FAQ, table of contents and CTA blocks
- ✓Styled like your site automatically
- ✓Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and more
- ✓Comments with a spam filter
Found on Google and by AI
Fylo writes the files search engines and AI assistants read, and refreshes them on every publish.
- ✓Site and blog sitemaps, robots.txt
- ✓Article, FAQ and Organization schema
- ✓llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each post
- ✓Broken links found after every upload
Visitors become enquiries
Contact forms and analytics sit in the same dashboard as your site, so you see what brings in work.
- ✓Contact forms on Pro and Business
- ✓Spam filter and maths captcha
- ✓Traffic analytics on every plan
- ✓No third-party ads, ever
How to put your small business online for free
No server, no WordPress install, no builder to learn. Three steps and customers can find you.
Bring your site
Upload an index.html, a ZIP or a folder, or paste the code ChatGPT, Claude or another AI tool wrote for you. Up to 10 MB free.
Pick your address
Start on a free Fylo subdomain, or connect your own domain like yourbusiness.com from the Starter plan. SSL is set up automatically.
Turn on the blog and SEO + GEO
Switch on the blog and publish your first post. Fylo writes the sitemaps, schema and llms.txt for you.
A blog that brings in local searches
Customers search their problem before they search for a business. Answer it in a post, published at /blog/ on your own domain and styled like the rest of your site, and the search brings them to you.
Looks like your business
Match my site borrows the header, footer and brand colour from your index.html, so posts feel like the rest of your website.
Visual or code
Write like a document in the visual editor, or flip to Code and edit the HTML. Changing the theme never breaks a post.
Blocks that win searches
FAQ, table of contents, callout, CTA button, table and custom HTML. The FAQ block adds FAQ schema, and the CTA sends readers to your booking page.
Show the people behind it
Add each author with a photo, bio and social links, so customers and search engines see real expertise behind every post.
Write in your customers’ language
English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and other major languages, with the blog’s language and time zone set once in Settings.
Publish from an AI app
Draft and publish posts from Claude through the Fylo.Host MCP connector, without opening the dashboard.
Rank on Google. Get recommended by ChatGPT.
SEO is how customers find you in Google. GEO, generative engine optimization (also called AEO), is how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity read your site and cite it in answers. Both depend on files most hosts leave to you. Fylo writes them.
- index.htmlyour site
- services.htmlyour site
- contact.htmlyour site
- blog/blog
- when-to-call-a-plumber/post
- when-to-call-a-plumber.mdGEO
- sitemap.xmlSEO
- feed.xmlRSS
- sitemap.xmlSEO
- robots.txtSEO
- llms.txtGEO
Site and blog sitemaps
Every page and post listed with a last-modified date, ready to submit in Google Search Console.
Your business details
Tell search engines who runs the site: your business name, alternate name, logo and URL, added as Organization schema.
Schema, inserted
Article, Breadcrumb, FAQ and WebSite JSON-LD written on every post, so answers can show as rich results.
llms.txt for AI assistants
A plain index of your site that AI assistants can read in one request, next to a robots.txt that points to your sitemap.
Markdown copy of each post
Every post is also served as clean Markdown at its URL + .md, the easiest format for an AI to quote.
Broken link checker
Dead links are found after each upload and fixed in one click, before a customer or Google hits the 404.
No host can promise rankings. Fylo removes the technical reasons a site doesn’t rank, and the blog gives you pages worth ranking. Switch each file on or off in Blog → Settings → SEO + GEO. See everything that gets generated.
Enquiries, traffic and fixes in one dashboard
The website isn’t finished when it goes live. Everything you need to keep it bringing in work lives in the same place.
- ✓Contact forms on Pro and Business: your form works without a server, and leads are emailed to you. How forms work
- ✓Spam filter and maths captcha keep bots out of your inbox
- ✓Traffic analytics on every plan, advanced from Starter
- ✓Broken link checker with a one-click fix after every upload
- ✓Update without re-building: replace a file, or edit it in the browser from Starter
- ✓Hand it to an agent: the API and MCP connector let AI tools update your site for you
Start free. Upgrade when the business grows.
Every plan includes the blog, SEO + GEO files, speed optimization, the global edge network and free SSL. Paid plans add your own domain, room to grow, edge cache and forms.
| What a business needs | Free | Starter | Pro | Business |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sites | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Storage | 10 MB | 500 MB | 2 GB | 10 GB |
| Your own domainyourbusiness.com with free SSL | ✗ | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Visits a month | 1,000 | 25,000 | 150,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Edge cache~100ms time to first byte | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contact form leads a month | ✗ | ✗ | 1,000 | 3,000 |
| Analytics | Basic | Advanced | Advanced | Advanced |
| Fylo badge | Small badge | Removed | Removed | Removed |
No third-party ads on any plan. Free sites stay online with one visit every 45 days. See prices
Small businesses that host here
Restaurants & cafés
Menu, opening hours, location and posts for seasonal specials.
Clinics & salons
Services, team bios and an appointment enquiry form.
Trades & home services
Service areas, prices and posts that answer “how much does it cost”.
Shops & boutiques
A fast catalogue with payment buttons or links to your store.
Consultants & agencies
Case studies and a portfolio on your own domain.
Tutors & coaching
Courses, batch timings and a blog that builds trust before the first call.
Real estate
Listing pages and neighbourhood guides that rank for local searches.
Photographers & events
Galleries that stay fast because every image is converted to WebP.
Startups & launches
A product page that converts. See landing page hosting.
Fylo vs website builders vs shared hosting
The three usual ways a small business gets online, compared on what decides whether the site loads, gets found and stays easy to run.
| Feature | Fylo.Host | Website builder | Shared WordPress hosting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan with no third-party ads | ✓ | Often shows builder ads | Rarely a free plan |
| Served from a global edge networkClose to every customer | ✓ | Varies | Usually one server |
| Speed optimization on uploadMinify, WebP, font subsetting | ✓ | Partial | Plugins |
| Built-in blog | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sitemaps, schema and llms.txt generated | ✓ | Partial | Plugins |
| Broken link checker | ✓ | ✗ | Plugin |
| Plugins and updates to maintain | None | None | Ongoing |
| Take your site elsewherePlain HTML you can download | ✓ | Usually locked in | ✓ |
| Bring a site an AI tool built | ✓ | ✗ | Manual setup |
| Update by AI agentAPI and MCP connector | ✓ | Rare | Plugin |
| Your own domain | From Starter | Paid plans | ✓ |
Comparing with a specific host? See Netlify, GitHub Pages and Tiiny Host.
Good to know before you start
Fylo hosts static websites. That’s why they’re fast and need no upkeep, and it also means a few things work differently.
No built-in checkout
To take payments, add a payment button or link from your payment provider, or link to your existing online store.
No email inboxes
Keep your registrar or email provider for hello@yourbusiness.com. Your website and email share the same domain.
No PHP or databases
WordPress itself doesn’t run here. HTML, CSS and JavaScript do, including sites made with plain HTML or AI builders.