Hosting
Below you’ll find a growing matrix of free hosting options for Moodle. NOTE: none of these companies or organizations are official Moodle partners (so if you’re seeking official hosting that provides funding back to the Moodle Trust, try one of the companies listed on this site: http://moodle.com/partners/)
They are in no particular order and we’ll continue to update them as changes become known and new hosting services are introduced. If you know of another hosting service, let us know!
| Org | URL | Ads? | 3rd party plug-ins | Mobile-Enabled | Support | Business Plan | Limits | Comm- unity |
Basic Plan |
| MoodleReader | http://moodlereader.org | no | Graded reader module | no | local/email | University/Gov’t funded | Legit edu orgs only | 25+ | 1 course, full access to the module & 900+ book resources |
| Ninehub | http://ninehub.com | yes | no | no | Web development company | NA | NA | Full admin rights; unrestricted & unlimited disk space | |
| MoodleShare | http://courses.moodleshare.com | no | no | no | NA | NA | 1 course | NA | editing teacher rights |
| Sqooltools | http://sqooltools.com | yes | yes^ | no | self serve is free, $10 per ticket for help desk | Freemium model | yes | NA | k-12 only, 1 course, 30 students, 250MB |
| Gnomio | http://gnomio.com | yes | yes* | mle | NA | Donations | no | 1000+ sites | Full admin rights; honor code (no large files) |
| KeytoSchool | http://keytoschool.com | no | yes* | coming soon |
forums | Non-profit | NA | help site/FAQs | Full admin rights; high upper limits |
| Ewedle | http://ewedle.com | no | no | no | self serve | Freemium model | 30+ sites | Full admin rights | |
| e-Socrates | http://e-socrates.org | yes | no | no | forums (English and Italian) | IT company, focused on open source software | courses must be open | 1000+ courses | 1 course |
| Learning Objectivity |
http://learningobjectivity.com | no | NA | no | self serve, email | Consultancy | NA | 67 courses | 1 course |
| 000webhost¹ | http://www.000webhost.com/ | no | no | no | no | Freemium | 1.5 GB storage; 100 GB bandwidth | NA | full admin rights |
^audio recording only, other 3rd party modules with paid contract.
*10+
¹note that this enables site set up via cPanel
I noticed the table is cut off when I view it in Firefox 3.6.6 or Internet Explorer 8. Is there a file I can download to view the whole table?
Tom, that’s fixed, at least for IE8 and FF (sorry for the mis-formatting).
Even with free, there are some other aspects that would be good to know from people providing a hosted service:
Backups (if the server blows up have you a copy of the data available for u, or if they go out of business / close down)
Upgrades/security patches – Is it secure, is it up to date …
Anti-Virus scan on uploads?
These are just 3 questions you should always know answers to whether you pay or not.