Free web hosting for schools and colleges

Pupils and students learn web development best with a real site on a real address. Daylit gives schools and colleges a class code: every student gets their own site at name.ondaylit.nl for free, for example for a whole school year. Hosted in the Netherlands, on our own servers and on solar power.

What your class gets

• Their own site per student, Static (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) or WordPress, with its own address and an SSL certificate (https).
• Free for the agreed period, for example 300 days for up to 40 students. No payment details and no subscription that continues by itself.
• Work like the pros: upload files with WinSCP, edit directly in Visual Studio Code, or simply in the browser.
• Ready within minutes: the student fills in the form, confirms their email address and receives their logins by email.
• Daily backups, also during the free period.

How it works

1. The teacher or college requests a class code at info@daylit.nl: name of the school, course, number of students and the period.
2. We send a link, for example https://order.daylit.nl/?code=your-class-2026, and the data processing agreement.
3. Students open the link, choose a name for their site and confirm their email address. A school email address is fine.
4. A week before the end of the period they get an email. Anyone who wants to keep their site chooses a plan (Static costs 0,19 euro per month). Otherwise the site goes offline and we delete everything 14 days later.

WinSCP and Visual Studio Code

Every site has its own file manager at name-files.ondaylit.nl, reachable over WebDAV via https:

• WinSCP: protocol WebDAV, encryption TLS, port 443, host name-files.ondaylit.nl, with the user name and password from the welcome email.
• Visual Studio Code: map a network location to https://name-files.ondaylit.nl in Windows Explorer and open that folder in VS Code. Saving is publishing.
• Browser: drag and drop in the file manager, nothing to install.

Privacy and GDPR

We know schools must be strict with their students' data. That is why:

• The school is our customer and the controller; we are the processor, with a data processing agreement. If your school uses the model agreement of the Dutch education privacy covenant (Privacyconvenant Onderwijs), we sign that.
• As little data as possible: a name (a first name is enough) and an email address. No address, no phone number, no payment details.
• Not in Google: sites with a class code are hidden from search engines by default.
• Everything in the Netherlands: our own servers, also for backups and email. No US cloud and no sub-processors outside the EEA.
• No tracking: no cookies, no advertising, no profiling.
• Cleaned up properly: after the agreed period we delete sites and data on fixed terms. See the privacy statement.

Questions from teachers

What does a class code cost?

Nothing. The agreed period is free for the school and the students. Anyone who wants to keep their site afterwards chooses a plan themselves.

Can students use WordPress too?

Yes. When creating their site they choose between Static (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and WordPress Start, which comes installed with its own database.

Do students need a credit card or iDEAL?

No. A site with a class code needs no payment details.

What happens at the end of the school year?

Students get an email a week and a day before. If they do not choose a plan, the site goes offline. We keep everything for 14 more days and then delete it permanently. A paid subscription never starts by itself.

Can a student connect their own domain name?

Yes, an own domain (such as firstname.nl) can be connected to any site. We take care of the SSL certificate.

Can students under 16 take part?

Yes, when the school is the customer and provides the legal basis and, where needed, parental consent, as the GDPR requires. We only process a name and an email address, and the sites are hidden from search engines.

Request a class code