Free Web App & Static Site Hosting

Free forever — not a 30-day trial

Plenty of platforms advertise a "free" plan that is really a countdown: a trial that expires, a service that spins down when idle, or a tier that quietly needs a card on file. Orbit's free plan is different — it is free forever, needs no credit card to start, and runs your app as a real deployment on the decentralized Flux cloud rather than a throttled sandbox. It is meant for side projects, demos, portfolios and learning, and you can keep a project on it for as long as you like.

What you can host for free

Orbit deploys straight from your repository and detects the framework automatically with Nixpacks, so you are not limited to static files — you can host real applications on the free tier:

• Static sites — React, Vue, Svelte, Vite, Astro, or plain HTML/CSS/JS built to a static output.
• Full-stack and backend apps — Node, Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI), Go, Ruby and more, running as real containers, not just static files.
• Any Git provider — deploy from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket with no Dockerfile required.

Because every deployment is a genuine container rather than a function or a static bucket, long-running backends and server-side frameworks that other free tiers handle poorly work here too.

How can hosting be free? The decentralized model

Traditional hosts pay for centralized data centers and recoup it with metered bandwidth and expiring free tiers. Orbit runs on the Flux network — thousands of independent nodes operated by many people worldwide — so your app is packaged into a container and scheduled onto that shared, permissionless infrastructure. There is no single point of failure, no egress or bandwidth fees, and no single company deciding to sunset the free tier. It is the same architecture described in our guide to decentralized (web3) hosting.

Free vs paid plans

Start free and move up only when you need dedicated resources for a production app. Paid plans add reserved CPU and RAM and start at just $0.99/mo:

Every paid plan includes the first month free, dedicated resources, and the same no-egress-fees, no-lock-in model as the free tier — you pay for the compute your app uses, nothing else.

When to move up from the free tier

The free tier is ideal for getting a project online, but a busy production app benefits from dedicated CPU and RAM and more headroom. When your side project turns into something real, upgrading is a one-click change with no migration and no redeploy dance — your repo stays the source of truth. If you are weighing Orbit against a centralized platform, see how it compares as a Vercel and Netlify alternative, a Heroku alternative, or a Render alternative.

Deploy your first app free in one push

Connect a repository, and Orbit detects your framework, builds a container, and deploys it across the Flux network — you get a live URL in minutes, free. Add a Deploy to Flux button to your README so anyone can launch their own copy in one click. No servers to manage, no card to enter, no trial to beat.