{"slug": "neocities-create-your-own-free-website", "title": "Neocities: Create your own free website", "summary": "Neocities, a free web hosting service, launched with a mission to restore user control over online self-expression by offering an in-browser HTML editor, community features, and a commitment to never sell user data for AI training or display ads. The platform supports static sites with fast CDN delivery, developer tools, and open-source code to build trust.", "body_md": "## Our mission: To make the web fun again by giving you back control of how you express yourself online.\n\n### HTML editor, right in your browser\n\nNo tools needed. With our easy-to-use HTML editor, you're ready to start building your awesome website right now.\n\nIf you'd rather use your favorite desktop editor, no problem. Uploading files is as easy as drag-n-drop.\n\n### Welcome back, web surfing\n\nAll Neocities sites are viewable and easily surfable in our [website gallery](/browse).\n\nUsing tags (our version of Web Rings) you can easily discover new sites related to your interests.\n\n### Follow your favorite Neocities sites\n\nKeep track of all your favorite sites by following them. Any changes to the sites automatically show up in your news feed. You'll also see what sites they follow.\n\n### Web creativity plus community\n\nInteract with your favorite web builders by posting comments, and sharing their sites on your social network of choice.\n\n### Zero Advertising, Zero AI Data Selling\n\n**Neocities will never sell your data for AI training or put advertising on your site.** Instead, we are funded directly by people just like you with [supporter accounts](/supporter) and [donations](/donate).\n\n### Fast Site Loading\n\nNeocities operates our own caching anycast CDN in over a dozen datacenters all over the world to quickly serve your site to visitors with strong SSL and support for HTTP/2. Our strict focus on static web hosting allows us to routinely out-perform the pricey cloud services on reliability, speed and uptime.\n\n### Developer Tools\n\nOur fast static hosting comes with a great in-browser HTML editor, easy file uploading, a [command line tool](/cli), RSS feeds for every site, [APIs](/api) for building developer applications, and much more!\n\n### Open Source\n\nWe [publish](https://github.com/neocities) the code that powers the site for inspection. We want to win your trust—not lock you in.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neocities-create-your-own-free-website", "canonical_source": "https://neocities.org/", "published_at": "2026-07-12 19:49:53+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-12 20:05:25.819108+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Neocities"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neocities-create-your-own-free-website", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neocities-create-your-own-free-website.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neocities-create-your-own-free-website.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neocities-create-your-own-free-website.jsonld"}}