My Domain Name Cost ₹499. My Hosting Costs ₹0. Here's How I Did It.

The email confirmation felt electric. myfirstbigidea.in was officially mine. I had snagged it during one of those late-night deals for less than the price of a good biryani. Holding that domain felt like holding a key. A key to my own little corner of the internet, a space for my portfolio, my thoughts, my project.


That excitement lasted for about an hour.


Then, reality hit me like the humid Mumbai air in monsoon season. A domain is just an address, an empty plot of land. To build a house on it, you need hosting. And hosting, as I quickly discovered through a flurry of Google searches, costs money.


₹200 a month here, ₹500 a month there. “Unlimited” plans with a dozen asterisks. Complicated cPanel dashboards that looked like the cockpit of an airplane. My dream suddenly had a recurring bill attached to it, a financial hurdle before I had even written a single line of <h1>Hello, World!</h1>.


I refused to believe it. In 2025, in the heart of Digital India, there had to be a way. My mission became singular: to host my shiny new domain name, myfirstbigidea.in, for the grand total of zero rupees.



The Old World of "Free" Hosting


My first searches were… disappointing. I found the kind of "free hosting" my older cousins used in the 2010s. Websites that would plaster ugly ads on your page, had the reliability of the local train schedule, and made connecting a custom domain a nightmare, if it was possible at all. It felt cheap and unprofessional. That wasn't the home I wanted for my idea.


I was about to give up and just pay for the cheapest plan I could find when I stumbled down a rabbit hole of developer blogs and YouTube videos. They were all talking about something called the "Jamstack," "static hosting," and "serverless." It sounded technical, but the promise was revolutionary: host your website on the same global, high-speed infrastructure as major tech companies, for free.


This was the path.



My Journey to a ₹0 Hosting Bill


I'm not a super-coder, but I'm comfortable with the basics. Here’s the exact route I took.


Step 1: The Code's Home - GitHub


First, I needed a place to store my website's files (my simple HTML, CSS, and a couple of images). I already had a free account on GitHub, a platform most developers use for version control. I created a new "repository" and uploaded my files. This was my source of truth.


Step 2: The Magic Link - Vercel


This was the "aha!" moment. I signed up for a free account with a service called Vercel (another brilliant option is Netlify; they work very similarly). Instead of asking for a credit card, it asked to connect to my GitHub account.


I gave it permission, selected my website's repository, and clicked ‘Deploy’.


In less than a minute, Vercel had taken my code, built it, and published it on a temporary web address. It was live. I was stunned at the speed and simplicity.


Step 3: Connecting My Own Domain


This was the final test. Inside my Vercel dashboard, I found a "Domains" section. I typed in myfirstbigidea.in.


Vercel didn't just say "okay." It gave me specific, simple instructions. It told me, "Go to where you bought your domain and change the 'Nameservers' to these two addresses."


I logged into my domain registrar, found the DNS / Nameserver settings, and copy-pasted the two lines Vercel gave me. I clicked save.


The guides said it could take a few hours for the changes to spread across the internet. I made myself a cup of chai, nervously refreshing the page every few minutes. And then, about thirty minutes later, it happened.


I typed myfirstbigidea.in into my browser. My website appeared. Fast, clean, and professional. Vercel had even automatically added a free SSL certificate, so my site had the secure padlock (HTTPS) next to the address.


I did it. The only cost was the ₹499 I paid for the domain. The hosting—fast, secure, and global—was completely free.


The sun is just starting to stream through my window now. It's a brand new Saturday morning, and my idea has a home on the internet. It’s no longer just a key; there’s a house on my plot of land now, open for the world to visit. And it didn’t cost me a single rupee more. Your brilliant idea deserves the same.

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