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Altervista, which leads in the Italian market, is one of the biggest free of charge hosting service in the world. Founded in 2000, Altervista came at the top thanks to the reputation of the reliability of its services spread all over the web.

Altervista is the tech core of the leading publishing company in Italy: Mondadori, digital magazine.

Professional services are available free of charge. How is it possible? Thanks to the exclusive revenue sharing system on Altervista you can monetize the traffic in your web space.

Resources, features and compatible CMS

Websites that decide to host advertisements generate a profit so the service remains free of charge for everyone. Remember that on Altervista advertising is not mandatory, but an opportunity.

Feature: PHP 5 and 7, MySQL database with unlimited queries, HTTPS secure website certificate, FTP with a secure encrypted connection, mod_rewrite and .htaccess management, Cron Jobs tool.

You can load and install CMS such as WordPress and many more.

Website Management

PHP

PHP 5 and 7 “Optimized for Altervista” with the most popular libraries

Sql

MySQL with unlimited queries. Free of charge backup.

FTP

Full space management via FTP and file manager.

The Happiness of Altervista Users

We came to the top because we are reliable and accessible.

Luciene Sabre

Liplock, on Altervista since 2017

Wanna give a shoutout to @Altervista, an awesome free subdomain host - but you can buy a tld domain from them and use it.

Esther Duncan

Artful school leadership, on Altervista since 2016

Free web space is hard to find these days, but came across these nice folks in Italy: Altervista

Arthur Hagopian

Armenian Jerusalem, on Altervista since 2014

My experience with Altervista has been an eye-opener. I had tried several other hosting services and registrars, and Altervista comes on top. Thank you for a wonderful service. May you go on to greater success.

Daniele Mencarelli

Guideandroid, on Altervista since 2017

Web push notification helped me in an incredible way to grow visits to my blog 😍 I sincerely thank the person who thought to bring this feature to Altervista !!!

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Ready-made professional Privacy and Cookie policy
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Second level domain with 1 click (name.it, .com etc.)
Customer care, training, and coaching
Ready to use revenue sharing system to monetize content with Google AdSense and the Altervista dealership
You can install the themes and plugins you want
Notifiche web push e Messenger
Custom post type for Recipes, Tutorials, and Book Reviews. Created thanks to our many years of experience in managing the Giallozafferano blog platform, the largest Italian food community