A free static-website host that hands you an HTML/CSS/JS canvas and a neocities.org subdomain — the indie-web home for a site you hand-build and fully own.
Last verified · 2026-07-12 · by Moe Ameen
Neocities is a static-website host, not an AI tool — worth stating plainly, because it sits in a creator's stack as the owned home a lot of AI-made content points back to. Kyle Drake created it in 2013 (the code went up on May 23 and the site launched publicly on June 28) with an explicit mission: revive the free personal web that died when Yahoo shut down GeoCities. You get a page, an HTML/CSS/JS editor in the browser, and a place to publish that isn't a walled social feed. The backend is open source (Ruby, FreeBSD-licensed), and the ethos is the product's spine — no ads on your site, no watermarks, and a public pledge to never sell user data to marketers or AI companies.
The free plan gives you 1 GB of storage and 200 GB of monthly bandwidth on a `yoursite.neocities.org` subdomain. You build by writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript directly — Neocities is deliberately no-framework, no-CMS, no-database. Free accounts can host HTML, CSS, JS, Markdown, XML, text, fonts, and images; the file-type restriction exists to keep the service from becoming a file dump. You can edit in the web editor, or upload via the dashboard, a command-line tool, WebDAV, or the REST API. There is no drag-and-drop page builder in the Squarespace sense — the "building" is coding, which is the point for the indie-web crowd it attracts.
The $5/month Supporter plan lifts storage to 50 GB and bandwidth to 3,000 GB, and unlocks the things a serious site needs: custom domains with SSL, a global anycast CDN, WebDAV uploading, one-click backups, multiple sites per account, CORS support, and unrestricted file types. Discovery is a distinctive part of the platform — every site is browsable in a public gallery, and tags act as modern web rings that let visitors surf between related sites, echoing the pre-algorithm web. The network has grown from tens of thousands of sites in the mid-2010s past one million in early 2025.
The honest framing for a creator: Neocities is an excellent, cheap, principled place to own a static site — a portfolio, a link hub, a zine, a landing page, a blog you hand-code. What it is not is a content engine or a distribution network. It generates nothing for you, it writes no copy, it makes no video or graphics, and it publishes to no social platform. Everyone who visits your Neocities site had to be sent there from somewhere else. That "somewhere else" — the feeds, the posts, the audience — is the part Neocities leaves entirely to you.
Neocities solves "where does my site live" and stops there — it never solves "how do people find it." A static page on a neocities.org subdomain gets zero traffic on its own; every visitor has to arrive from a feed you're active on. That feed is exactly what Kompozy runs. Treat your Neocities site as the owned hub — a portfolio, a link page, a hand-coded blog — and let Kompozy be the audience engine pointed at it: it generates the week of posts across nine social platforms whose whole job is to drive people to that URL. Kompozy produces Persona Shorts and Clipped Shorts for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, brand-exact Carousels and Quote Graphics for Instagram and LinkedIn, and native Text Posts for X and Threads — each on-brand through your Persona Brief, each ending on a link back to the site Neocities is hosting.
The specific value is that Neocities is a home with no front door and Kompozy builds the traffic. Say you hand-code a launch page or a link hub on Neocities. In Kompozy you drop in one source — a talking-head clip, a long recording, or a written idea — and it fans that into a full content week: short-form video, carousels, text posts, plus a Blog Article and an Email Newsletter, all in one voice, then schedules and publishes the set across every connected platform with Autopilot and a per-post review pipeline. Kompozy doesn't publish natively into Neocities (its blog targets are WordPress, GHL Blog, and a custom webhook), so keep the two jobs clean: Neocities owns the static site you control, Kompozy owns the generation and cross-platform reach that fills it with visitors. One is the address; the other is everything that sends people to it.
Neocities is a free static-website host launched in 2013 by Kyle Drake to revive the free personal web after GeoCities shut down. You build a site by writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and publish it on a neocities.org subdomain. The free plan includes 1 GB of storage and 200 GB of bandwidth, with no ads and a pledge not to sell data to marketers or AI companies.
Yes. The free plan gives you 1 GB of storage, 200 GB of monthly bandwidth, and a neocities.org subdomain at no cost. The optional $5/month Supporter plan raises limits to 50 GB storage and 3,000 GB bandwidth and adds custom domains with SSL, a CDN, WebDAV, one-click backups, and unrestricted file types.
No. Neocities only hosts the static files you build; it generates no copy, video, or graphics and publishes to no social platform. Every visitor arrives from somewhere else, so you need a separate way to produce and distribute content that drives traffic to the site — that is the role a content engine like Kompozy plays.
Custom domains with SSL are a Supporter-plan feature ($5/month). Free sites run on a yoursite.neocities.org subdomain. Supporter also adds a global anycast CDN, WebDAV uploading, one-click backups, and multiple sites per account.
Neocities gives you in-network discovery through its public gallery and tag-based web rings, but real traffic comes from being active on social platforms that link back to your site. Build the site on Neocities, then use Kompozy to generate and schedule on-brand posts across nine platforms that point people to it.