If you search the Internet on how to get a free VPS or virtual server, you will come across some offers where you can get a VPS for some time, but not forever

**pages with scams or pages that simply want to collect your data to carry out other purposes
However, if you want to have
** your own VPS really totally free, today I'm going to explain and show you how to do itIf you are entering the world of Networking and Linux, it is essential to have a VPS where you can develop your own web server, game server , and much more. You decide. It is essential to continue the learning process, and above all, it is fun. It is true that you can get a free VPS for a year on platforms like AWS or Alibaba Cloud, but a FREE VPS forever? ?, It is not something that you see every day. In this case, it is also offered by one of the main technology companies that very possibly sounds familiar to you, Oracle, through its service
**Oracle Cloud
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## Always Free VPS Server with Oracle Cloud
Oracle Cloud offers many services, just like basically any Cloud Computing platform, and also has a trial period for many of them, or even up to a certain amount of free credit

**or better of Oracle Cloud is that they have a series of services under the label ¨Always Free which means **Always Free Therefore, once you have finished the trial period of 30 days, All the services NOT free from your account will be automatically deleted, only those with the "Always Free" label will remain. In the image below you can find more information about the Always Free Cloud Services:
** Two AMD computing virtual machines, or what comes to the same thing, two VPSWe will have the option of having two AMD virtual machines from 1 to 8 OCPU and ** 1 GB of memory ** ** RAM * *each. More than enough for a small web server, cloud file host, game server etc. Plus you'll get **50 GB of free storage (Expandable to 200 GB for free according to Oracle documentation *
A server with these same characteristics has a monthly fee of about 3 to 6 euros or dollars on platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or Alibaba Cloud. Another advantage of Oracle Cloud is that they ask you for a debit or credit card during the process of registration (like all platforms) solely for the purpose of verifying if it is a real person, however,

**This card is not saved in your account and under no circumstances will you be charged for services (Simply, a charge of 1 dollar or equivalent that will beas verification). Remember that when the period ends Your account will remain a trial account and you will not be able to sign up for any paid service unless you upgrade your account. However,
** all ¨Always Free¨ services will be available **You have no risk in this case, from my point of view this system is much better also than in AWS or Alibaba Cloud
## Register your Oracle Cloud account
The first thing you have to do to enjoy this service is to create an account on this platform. From this Oracle Cloud link you can directly access the page in Spanish. Once there you will have to click on the ¨ button

**Start for free and follow the steps that appear on the screen. I do not want to cover this process in detail because it is quite easy, you simply have to fill in the information that the system asks us for. First, it will ask us our Name, Surname and email to be able to verify our email address.Once this is done, it will ask us for our address, a credit card number and to choose a zone for our serverRemember that whenever you use the Always Free services , you will not have any problems or unexpected charges on your credit card
## Create your Virtual Server
Once you have your account created, when you access Oracle Cloud you will see a control panel like the following. There, you will have to click on
**Create a VM Instance On the next screen, you will have to select the name you want to give the server, and then the most important thing is to press the button
**Edit **on the **Image and Unit** section, where we can select the technical characteristics of the machine and the operating system.Once we click on Edit, we will click on
**Change Image We are going to leave the ¨Shape¨ as it comes by default. As you can see we have a VPS with AMD OCPU and 1 GB of RAM. Perfect! In this case for the example I have selected
**Ubuntu 20.4 which is one of the standard systems that has the fewest software incompatibilities for Linux.Once you've selected the system you prefer, press **Select Image Do not select Windows, as this system does not have the Always Free label. The rest of the parameters on the configuration page we will leave them as they are. The most important thing now is to download the files for the SSH connection. To do this, click on
**Download private key** and **Save Public KeySave these files in a safe place, as you will need them to establish the SSH (Secure Shell) connection
Finally, click on

**CreateThis will take you to a screen where you will see **Provisioning which is what they call the server development process.Wait a few minutes until it is ready.You should see something like the following.Remember to refresh the page .The most important thing now on this screen is the Public IP address of our server How to connect to your Virtual server via SSH
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**Ready! Now you have your own virtual server totally free and forever. **You may be wondering how to access it. This is important to be able to use it and above all to be able to configure it to our liking. of **Windows commands or PowerShell In my case I always prefer to use PowerShell.- Click on the Windows Icon and search for PowerShell to run it.- Once opened, navigate to the folder where you have saved the previously downloaded keys .In my case I have saved them on the Desktop in a folder called OracleFree. Now I simply
**we have to use this command** to access our server.ssh user@ServerIP -i KeyFile.key
**In this case, the default user that Oracle creates is Ubuntu** (You can find this information in the Oracle documentation). Select the IP that appeared on the previous screen, the screen where our VPS information is, and Add the name of the downloaded file with a .key extension. In my case, the command would look like this:
ssh [email protected] -i ssh-key-2022-01-31.key
Once you have entered the command press ¨
**Enter and then write Yes as required in the previous image. At this moment, you would already be inside your server. Now the possibilities you have are many, you can create
** your own VPN service, you can set up your own web hosting server, or your own game serverYou can also install the Linux GUI and set up a VNC connection so you can access your remote system from the browser.Yes If you are interested, keep reading the next technical articles and manuals that I will be writing. For now, I hope you enjoy your own server
**FREE VPS Remember that you can have up to two VPS with Oracle for free. Simply, you will have to follow the same process to create a new one.