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Byet

iFastNet's free hosting brand, running PHP and MySQL accounts on a control panel it wrote itself.

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Free tier out front, iFastNet behind it.

Byet is the free hosting brand of iFastNet, which has traded since 2005 and describes itself as having started in the UK. Its terms put the contract under UK law, name courts in Northumberland, and give the network’s locations as California, Ohio and the UK. Byet sells the free accounts under its own name; everything above them — cPanel shared plans, VPS with root, dedicated machines and domain registration — is ordered through iFastNet’s portal, and the paid pages call iFastNet the parent company.

The control panel explains the rest of the business. iFastNet wrote VistaPanel itself rather than license cPanel, which is what makes a free account cost it nothing in software, and later gave the platform away as MyOwnFreeHost so that other people could run free hosting brands on it. InfinityFree is one of them.

Worth knowing

The free tier is a VistaPanel account: PHP and MySQL, FTP and a file manager, cron, and a subdomain from a fixed list of two dozen with a certificate issued for it — on a domain of your own, you install the certificate yourself. It has no shell; root is what the VPS and dedicated lines are for. The published figures are storage and bandwidth rather than the ceilings that decide whether a busy site stays up, and the free tier’s CPU, process and file limits are not on the site.

Most of the paperwork is iFastNet’s rather than Byet’s: the privacy policy, the abuse address and the support portal all sit on iFastNet’s domain, and the terms reserve termination without notice and at Byet’s sole discretion. Free accounts get the community forum, and the ticketed support portal is described on the paid pages.

Identity

Founded
20052
Reach
↓9401
Ownership
Subsidiary4
Status
Active

Deployment

Deployment
File transfer, Control panel6

Regions and law

Regions
United States, United Kingdom3
Headquarters
United Kingdom3

Other features

Domain registration
Paid add-on9
DNS hosting
Included6
Test domain
Included6

Support

Support
Email, Forum4
Hours
Around the clock4
Tiering
Better on paid plans4

Sources

  1. 2026-09-07: Reach
    majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
  2. 2026-08-28: Founded, Metal, Use cases, Audience, vista panel and my own free host
    byet.host/about
  3. 2026-08-28: Headquarters, Regions
    byet.host/terms-of-service
  4. 2026-08-28: Ownership, Software, Starting price, Entry price, Currencies, Paid, Pricing model, Audience, Support, Hours, Tiering
    byet.host/paid-hosting
  5. 2026-08-28: Categories
    byet.host/
  6. 2026-08-28: Runtimes, Software, Deployment, Shell, Managed databases, Free tier, Use cases, DNS hosting, Test domain
    byet.host/free-hosting
  7. 2026-08-28: Typical ceiling
    byet.host/dedicated
  8. 2026-08-28: Billed
    byet.host/vpsplans
  9. 2026-08-28: Domain registration
    byet.host/domain-registration
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