We make free hosting a real product.
Most "free" hosts are loss leaders. Byet is a 20-year-old engineering operation with our own datacenter, our own software stack, and a stubborn belief that hosting should be accessible to anyone, anywhere, regardless of budget.
Two decades. One mission.
We started in 2005 as a small UK hosting outfit experimenting with shared servers. By 2008 we'd built our own control panel, VistaPanel — because cPanel licensing made truly free hosting impossible.
Today, our infrastructure spans hundreds of 56-core Xeon Platinum machines, multi-homed BGP transit, and clustered MySQL pools — all designed so that the free tier runs on the same metal as the paid tier.
We're proudly bootstrapped. No VC, no exit, no enshittification. Just engineers building hosting that works.
Three principles, since day one.
Free should mean free
No expiration timer disguised as a "trial." No ads we slap on your site. No upgrade-or-die emails. Free is a permanent product, not a funnel.
Own the stack
Our datacenter, our network, our control panel. Vertical integration is what lets us offer enterprise hardware to free users without bleeding cash.
Help the underdogs
Students, indie hackers, NGOs, kids in their bedrooms learning HTML — they're who we built this for. They're who we keep building for.
20 years, in six moments.
Byet launches
First shared hosting servers go live in the UK.
VistaPanel ships
In-house control panel — what makes truly-free hosting possible.
MyOwnFreeHost
We give away our platform so anyone can run a free hosting brand.
iFastNet datacenter
Our own facility comes online — full vertical integration achieved.
NVMe everywhere
Free + premium tiers migrated to all-NVMe storage.
1.2 million sites
And counting. Same mission, much faster servers.
Want to join the million?
Start with a free account. Stay forever, or scale up as you grow — same stack, no migrations.
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