Is there a free alternative to Google Sites that’s open source? I want one with free custom domains, not subdomains.
Forget about free domains if you want to do something remotely serious with them. A real domain is few dollars/year and AFAIK you could use it coupled with GitHub Pages for simple, static websites or with altervista.org if you need WordPress.
I second GitHub Pages! I host a professional website/online CV there with a dot com domain for less than 10€/year. There are Jekyll templates to do that or pay someone to make you some custom CSS and Html that’s easy to maintain.
I feel like there’s an inherent misunderstanding in your query. If you want to run on your own domain - you run your own stuff (for the most part). You need a webserver, that’s about it.
I dat to check google sites first since I never used it before.
From the quick glance I gathered, I‘d say there is no open source equivalent with free custom domains.
Registering top level domains is not available for free I think. The closest I know is duckdns.
If google is giving out top level domains for free now then it is a market dominance strategy because nobody else can do it I think.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
If google is giving out top level domains for free now then it is a market dominance strategy because nobody else can do it I think.
I don’t they do, they only give free subdomains
That would make sense. But in that case I don’t understand why op is asking for an open source equivalent with free top level domains.
Hugo, Jekill, Docusaurus, host on github pages, netlify. Buy a domain for 15$ per year.
You want a website? https://wordpress.org/ is open source
Yes, but it’s a script you install on a web server. I want a builder that’s similar to Google Sites.
Domain registrations are not free. It’s an annual fee, I don’t think any company will give those out for free. I can recommend using https://www.namecheap.com/ for domain registrations.
what about wordpress.com ? (yeah, it’s different but by the same developers)
