Free AI Hosting on 50MB, and Where It Stops

  • 50MB of storage
  • cPanel, LiteSpeed, PHP 8.3
  • Every limit written down

A real 50MB account for a class project, a first RAG demo or a webhook that needs somewhere to live.

Fifty megabytes is a small number and we are not going to dress it up. It is enough to publish a working demo of an AI project, a front end that calls a model API, a webhook endpoint, or the write-up that goes with your coursework. It is not enough to run a model, store a media library or carry a production application. This page tells you which of those you are about to do, so you can start today and know in advance what will make you outgrow it.

50MB storage allowance

50MB, measured

Your whole account lives inside 50MB. cPanel shows the figure on its home screen, so you can watch it fill rather than find out from an error.

Shared hosting platform

The same platform

It is an ordinary cPanel account on our shared platform: CloudLinux for isolation, LiteSpeed Enterprise as the web server, EasyApache with PHP 8.3, Imunify360 scanning, Cloudflare in front.

No service level agreement on free plans

No SLA, and we say so

Our Service Level Agreement excludes any free trial, promotional period or beta service. A free plan carries no uptime commitment. That is the honest trade for paying nothing.

Upgrade path from the free plan

A door out

When the demo works and 50MB starts to pinch, you move to a paid plan in the same client area. Nothing about the free tier is designed to trap your files.

What Actually Fits
Inside 50 Megabytes

Most free tiers describe their storage and leave you to guess. Here is the arithmetic instead. A static site of hand-written HTML, CSS and a chart library is usually under 3MB. A plain PHP or Flask front end that calls an external model API is a few hundred kilobytes of code. Embeddings for 2,000 text chunks at 384 dimensions, stored as raw float32, come to roughly 3MB, so a small retrieval demo genuinely fits. What does not fit is anything you were planning to download at install time.

  • A static demo page, a write-up and a chart or two
  • A thin front end that calls an external model API
  • A flat-file vector store of a few thousand chunks
  • A webhook or callback endpoint of a few files
cPanel dashboard showing the disk usage figure for a hosting account

The Ceiling,
Described Before You Hit It

Shared hosting is shared hosting. There is no GPU and no CUDA runtime, so nothing on this account will run inference locally. There is no root, no systemd and no long-running daemon, so a persistent inference server or a queue worker that never exits belongs on a cloud server with root access rather than here. Scheduled work goes through cPanel cron. And a sentence-embedding model is on its own usually larger than the whole 50MB allowance, which is why the demos that succeed here call a model somewhere else.

Those last two lines are not house style, they are policy. Our resource usage policies prohibit offering file, document or data storage services, running a public mirror, a proxy or an anonymiser, and reselling from a shared plan. CPU, memory, disk throughput and concurrent processes are capped per account by CloudLinux, and the published figures for each paid tier are on that same page. Read it once now and you will never be surprised by a suspension later.

  • No GPU, no local model weights, no CUDA
  • No root access and no background daemons
  • No file, media or backup storage service
  • No reselling, no proxies, no torrent clients
Cloud server stack representing the paid tier above the free 50MB plan

From Sign-Up to a Live
Demo URL, in Four Steps

No build pipeline to learn and no container to configure. It is cPanel, a file upload and a domain, which is exactly why a 50MB account is a sane place to put a first AI project.

01

Open an account

Create your ElySpace client account, then pick the free 50MB plan from the product store.

02

Read the order form

The order form lists every field it needs before you confirm anything. Nothing on this page overrides what that screen tells you.

03

Upload and point

Use cPanel File Manager or FTP, then attach a domain you already own or register a new one for the project.

04

Watch the number

Check disk usage in cPanel as you build. When it fills, that is your signal to move up, not a wall you discover at midnight.

Six People This 50MB Plan Was Built For

If you recognise yourself here, the free tier will do the job. If you do not, the honest answer is that a paid plan will cost you less time than working around 50MB.

Student coursework project

The student with a submission date

Your machine-learning assignment needs a URL your examiner can open, not a notebook they have to run. A 50MB account holds the write-up, the front end and the screenshots, and it stays up after your laptop closes. Put the heavy training artefacts in a repository and link to them.

First retrieval augmented generation demo

The first RAG demo

You have a few hundred documents, a chunker, an embedding call and a question box. Keep the embeddings in a flat file or a small database, call the model over HTTPS, and the whole thing lives comfortably inside the allowance. It is the retrieval half that has to be small, not the model.

Webhook and callback endpoint

The webhook that needs a home

Something has to receive the POST: a payment callback while you test, a form handler, a status ping from a workflow you run elsewhere. Three files and a log. If that automation grows into a full workflow engine, it graduates to managed n8n hosting.

Portfolio page for a machine learning project

The portfolio piece

A hiring manager will spend ninety seconds on your project. A live page that explains the problem, shows the output and links the code beats a README every time, and it costs you nothing to keep online between interviews.

Validating an idea before building it

The idea you have not built yet

Before you write the application, put up the page that describes it and see who signs up. If you would rather not hand-code that page, our AI website builder writes one, and you can move the result onto a paid plan when the idea earns it.

Testing the hosting platform before paying

The buyer who wants proof first

ElySpace has been hosting since 2016 and supports over 27,000 customers, but a claim is a claim. Take a free account, look at the cPanel we actually ship, open a ticket and time the reply, then decide whether our cPanel web hosting deserves your card.

When 50MB Stops Being Enough

There are only three reasons you will outgrow this plan, and each has an obvious next step. If it is disk and traffic, move to shared cPanel hosting. If the demo turned into a content site, managed WordPress hosting is the shorter road, because WordPress core, a theme and two plugins will spend the whole 50MB before your first post. If you need root, a persistent process or a model running on your own metal, that is a VPS with full root access. Ask us before you pick: our team is on live chat and tickets around the clock, and telling you which one you need takes a minute.

Ask Before You Upgrade
ElySpace support team answering upgrade questions on live chat

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That's probably enough from us, we'll let our customers do the talking and with over 2000 reviews on Trustpilot and Facebook, see for yourself why you can trust us to power your website.

Free AI Hosting FAQ's

It is a cPanel account with a 50MB storage allowance on the same shared platform as our paid plans: CloudLinux for account isolation, LiteSpeed Enterprise as the web server, EasyApache with PHP 8.3, Imunify360 scanning and Cloudflare in front. You get the panel, file manager, FTP and cron. You do not get root, a GPU, or an uptime commitment.

For a demo, usually yes, because the expensive part sits somewhere else. Your code, templates and assets are typically under 5MB. Embeddings for 2,000 chunks at 384 dimensions are about 3MB as raw float32. The model itself is an API call. If your plan involves downloading weights, caching images or storing user uploads, 50MB will fail on day one and you should start on a paid plan.

The order form in the client area lists every field it requires before you confirm anything, and that screen is the authority. We deliberately do not restate it here, because a sentence on a marketing page drifts out of date and a checkout screen cannot. If you want the answer before you start, ask on live chat or open a ticket and we will tell you in writing.

No. Our Service Level Agreement explicitly excludes any free trial, promotional period or beta service, so no service credit is payable on a free account. You can read the exclusion list on the SLA page. If your project needs a committed uptime target in writing, it needs a paid hosting plan, and you should move it before anyone depends on it.

Not locally. There is no GPU and no CUDA runtime on shared hosting, and a sentence-embedding model alone is usually larger than the entire 50MB allowance. What works is calling a hosted model over HTTPS from your code and keeping only the prompts, the results and your own data on the account. To run inference on hardware you control, you need a cloud server or VPS with root access.

The platform runs EasyApache with PHP 8.3 behind LiteSpeed Enterprise, so PHP is the path of least resistance. Scheduled tasks run through cPanel cron. Because there is no root and no process supervisor on shared hosting, anything that expects to keep a long-running server process alive, including most Python web frameworks in their usual deployment shape, is a poor fit and belongs on a VPS.

You can store embeddings, as long as they are small and you keep them in a flat file or a table rather than a dedicated engine. A standalone vector database is a long-running service, which shared hosting cannot host. For a demo, brute-force cosine similarity over a few thousand vectors in PHP is fast enough and costs you nothing. Beyond that, use a hosted vector service or move to a server with root.

Read the chat application clause in our resource usage policies before you build it. Interactive chat and live-help applications served from our shared servers are prohibited, and that clause is enforced. A small endpoint that receives a webhook and answers through another platform's API is a different shape of thing, but if your design sits near that line, ask support first and get the answer in a ticket rather than after a suspension.

The same rules that govern every shared account. Our resource usage policies prohibit using the account as backup or file storage, offering image, file, document or data storage services, running public mirrors, proxies or anonymisers, torrent clients, game servers, web spiders and SEO farms, and reselling from a shared plan. Out-of-date applications that are actively being exploited are shut down without notice, so keep your dependencies current.

You change plan in the same client area and keep working. Open a ticket and our team will handle the move for you. Which plan depends on why you ran out: disk and traffic point to shared cPanel hosting, a content site points to managed WordPress hosting, and root access or a persistent process points to a cloud server or VPS. Support runs on live chat and tickets around the clock if you would rather ask first.