Free Moodle Hosting Companies
Here are the sites that I know of that offer free Moodle hosting. If you know of any others please add them to the comments and I will update the page as needed. Additionally, if you know that one of these sites is no longer offering free Moodle hosting please post in comments as well or use the contact form to let me know. I have not personally used any of these sites nor do I endorse any of them.
- 2500 Users
- 2.5 GB of storage
- 50 GB of bandwidth
- FTP/SFTP access
- Moodle Themes
- No Ads
http://www.globalclassroom.us/
http://www.esocrates.org/
Read the terms of use. All courses must be open to the public including any files that you upload.
http://ninehub.com/index.php
Unlimited disk space and bandwidth with 200MB file uploads
Oregon public K-12 schools and districts can get free hosting at OSU from the Oregon Virtual School District.
March 7, 2010 - 8:16pm
#2
Hosting
I run our Moodle at Lunarpages.com. If you look down at the bottom of the homepage there is a link to an application for free web space for any public school in the U.S. There are limitations to the free account, my uploads, (and students), are limited to 2mb in Moodle. That being said, I have greatly exceeded the 500mb storage limit, when I emailed them about it, the reply was, "don't worry about it".
When you register for your account, be sure to ask for a Linux server as they have modules that make installing Moodle and other applications much easier than the windoze server I am using. That being said, I installed and upgraded our Moodle without any professional training and I am no youngster. If I can do it, anyone can. If you are really interested in the nuts and bolts of Moodle, its the way to go. I can install and delete modules, make custom interfaces and configure Moodle just how all of the staff want it.
Carl
November 11, 2009 - 9:16am
#3
Free hosts don't support Moodle project
It's important to note that these free hosts and other non-Moodle partner hosting sites don't provide any support to the Moodle project, wheras Moodle partners give 10% of their revenue to support the ongoing development of Moodle. Moodle partners can be found at Moodle.com.
November 18, 2009 - 12:13am
#4
Point well taken but...
Anonymous, your point is well taken and no, these free hosting companies and other non-Moodle partners probably do not contribute financially to the ongoing development of Moodle. The point made in this post isn't to bypass Moodle Partners, but to recognize those providers that allow teachers to get their feet wet and experience Moodle before entering the obstacle course of convincing their IT and instructional technology departments to take a look at Moodle in their organization. This is a very painless way to take Moodle for a test drive.
Let me express a word of warning here for those that are using or plan to use a free Moodle hosting company, these free hosting solutions are basically for a single class size install and not designed to run an entire district. As I have pointed out in many of my discussions with folks about Moodle, if you want to take Moodle to the next level you w ant to host your own server or get hosting from a Moodle partner. I have sent a number of folks to talk to partners about large installations.
Now I would like to argue the point that " ...non-Moodle partner hosting sites don't provide any support to the Moodle project,..." I agree that most of them don't support the project financially in any way, but the open source philosophy doesn't just look at support as paying a fee for hosting or support.
There are a number of ways that I believe these non-Moodle partners do support the Moodle project. They provide boatloads of free advertisement which does bring new Moodle users to the community. Many of the hosting companies have wonderful tutorials that provide assistance to the community. Other non-Moodle partners spend time in the forums answering questions and helping users solve problems. In some cases, don't ask me for evidence, there may actually be individuals working with these companies that actually work on code or the addition of 3rd party modules. There are lots of ways to support an open source community aside from the financial end of things.
I will now climb down off my soap box and return you to your regularly scheduled blog perusal.
November 11, 2009 - 9:00am
#5
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