One of those projects

I've been meddling with a project for over 2 days. Actually I'm thinking of building an online community for my college, being my last semester in college this certainly would seem a waste. Nonetheless I' wanted to do something for the freshers, I may not have time to spend on it but at least the new students can have a chance to tinker with it.

I'm seemingly lost whether I should buy a host for this project or should I try it on a free host before taking it into production. The project (Online Community for my college) is built on an Open Source framework (Humhub) that is already available on Github.

I've tried it on a local server and its working beautifully. :) Well in few days my college will be starting so I'll ask for volunteers if anyone would be interested I'll start away with deployment.