Often when we see the word
*free* together with a product or service we tend to suspect its veracity and think it is a scam. In the case of VPS servers,
**if it is possible to contract a free VPS** although it probably hides hidden interests. Here we clarify all your doubts regarding the
**Free VPS What am I going to read?- Advantages of a VPS server
- What are the best free VPS? - Conclusions about free VPS
- Frequent questions
## Advantages of a VPS server
If you are reading this, you probably already know what a VPS server is, but if this is not the case, we will briefly clarify it for youA VPS Virtual Private Server (in Spanish, Virtual Private Server), **is a fraction of a physical server** made through virtualization. This virtualization system allows us to emulate a dedicated server in which we will have reserved and guaranteed a percentage of the resources (RAM, processor, storage of the hardware. With this model,
**They lower costs compared to a dedicated server** and in turn offers us much more versatility and performance compared to shared hosting What are the best free VPS?VPS servers, due to their characteristics, have a higher cost than shared hosting. However, we can find 100% free VPS plans. Having a
**VPS without paying is possible by two methods
- There are providers that offer free VPS plans with full performance and functionality but only available for a limited time. That is, they offer us a
free trial period. This option is the most valid to have a free VPS although we will have to take into account its limitation in time.- On the other hand, we can find completely free VPS
lifetime. Some companies provide free VPS for life but with reduced benefits. These have limited performance, no support service and connectivity is not complete as in a paid VPS. This may be a good option for testing and/or for developments that are not in production. We anticipate that, if you have some money to invest, better opt for a cheap VPS instead of a free one. You will save time, which in the end translates into money. We have prepared a list with the best Free Internet VPS with all the necessary information to choose the one that best suits your requirements. We hope you like it! On the list

**We have not included other types of hosting services** **such as **Amazon EC2 **or similar services since they are not VPS services but Cloud Servers and therefore do not fit into this comparison. If what you really need is hosting, we recommend BanaHosting. We have been working with them for many years and it has always worked very well for us. The technical support is fast and the prices are very competitive. Our favorite plan is the Bana Professional in which you can host Unlimited web for just over €6 per month 1.Gigarocket
Gigarocket is a company that began in 2015 to offer completely free VPS services. They are defined as
**a non-profit company** that aims to create a community and help entrepreneurs and small businesses. The sponsorships, advertisements and income obtained with their paid services allow them to offer this type of service at no cost. The free VPS they offer has One condition is that you have to make 25 posts in their forum (not spam) to contribute to the community. In addition, you have to make 15 posts monthly to keep the service free. After registering we realized that
**They no longer offer the free VPS service In March 2019 they stopped this activity.However, this option still appears on their website.They are giving wrong information, surely on purpose to attract customersYes, they have A free shared hosting service is available** to which you can access by publishing 10 posts in their forum 2.WoomHost
WoomHost is one of the typical companies that you get a
**good impression at first sightHowever, once you investigate a bit you begin to suspect the veracity of the services they offer.I'll tell you in advance, **it's a SCAMThis company claims to offer two types of VPS totally free. One with Windows operating system and another with Linux. These are the characteristics of the VPS that they show on their website

|Linux||Windows|
|Processor||2 cores||2 cores|
|RAM||2GB||4GB|
|Storage||120GB||165GB|
|IPs
|Operating system||Linux Server||Windows Server|
|Bandwidth||1.5TB||2TB|
|Others|
|Requires card||No||No|
|Duration||Unlimited||Unlimited|
As you can see in the table above, the characteristics of the free VPS are very good so as not to pay a euro. This already made us suspicious. When we registered and tried to contract one of these free VPS services, we confirmed our suspicions. It is not possible to contract the free VPS service.When trying to do so, they send us to their affiliation page 3.InstaFree

InstaFree is an American company that has been offering both shared and VPS hosting services since 2010. It has its servers distributed in several areas: Dallas, TX | Los Angeles, CA | Seattle, WA | New York, NY.Regarding their VPS services, they do not provide any type of support outside of network problems or service interruptions, so you must have knowledge about VPS managementIt takes between 24 and 48 hours to activate the account** because it goes through a manual review process to avoid fraudulent. They have a list of banned countries that should be checked before registering to see if ours is among them

|Processor||1 core|
|Memory||256 RAM / 256 vSWAP|
|Storage||5GB SSD|
|IPs||IPv4 NAT / 1 IPv6 address|
|Operating system||Linux|
|Bandwidth||50 GB|
|Others||DDoS Protection|
|Requires card|
|Duration||Forever|
They offer little RAM to have a production application but you have full access of
*root* and in principle they don't ask you for anything in return for their free service. Take a look at their 100% free hosting service 4.OHosti
OHosti offers several services at no cost but really 100% free is only one of them. The others that it offers as free you need to have obtained a balance through referrals. The design of its website is outdated, which made us suspect if the service was still valid .We tried to register and we did not succeedEverything indicates that they have abandoned the projectHere we indicate the characteristics of their free VPS plan in case they have resumed activity at the time you are reading this

|Processor||0.5 cores|
|RAM||512MB|
|Storage||25GB|
|IPs||2|
|Operating system|
|Bandwidth||500 GB|
|Others||CPanel|
|Card required||No|
|Duration||Forever|
 5.FreeVPS
GratisVPS has a long history in hosting service. It opened its doors in 2005 and has built a good reputation ever since. **They own their own infrastructure** and do not resell their services to other companies. At the time of writing In this article we tried to contract the free VPS service but unfortunately it was not possible. The web indicated that it was out of stock. It is a pity that we could not try it because it promises. We will try it soon although
**we suspect that this is a deceptive service**

|Processor||2vCore|
|RAM||2GB|
|Storage||100GB SSD|
|IPs
|Operating system||CentOs, Ubuntu, Debian or Windows|
|Bandwidth||1 GBPS unlimited|
|Others||Data centers in New York, London, Dusseldorf and Paris.|
|Card required||No|
|Duration||6 months|
 6.Hikiku
Hikiku is a French company that provides a range of free hosting solutions to European customers. It is true that the VPS servers they offer are free, although there is a bit of a trick behind it

**To be able to contract a VPS server we need to have HiP This is a **virtual currency owned by the company We can get HiP by viewing ads through its website. We can also exchange euros directly for HiP but it is Obviously, in this case we already lose the concept of *free*. Hire the server
** The most basic VPS has a cost of 0.99 HiP per monthThe website is in French, although with the Google translator we can easily translate it into Spanish

|Processor||1vCore|

|RAM||512MB|
|Storage||15GB|
|IPs||1 IPv4|
|Operating system||Linux|
|Bandwidth||10 Mb/s|
|Others||5 open ports|
|Card required||No|
|Duration||Unlimited with conditions (0.99 HiP/month)|
 7.Netsplit
Their servers are located in Roubaix (FranceThere is very little information on the internet about this company this is something that **made us wary** at first.We placed an order to verify if they really offer the service of free VPS. We chose the only VPS service that they have available on their website (see features below). We were pleasantly surprised that
**In less than 24 hours they will accept our request** and send us an email with the SSH access credentials. We connected to the machine, installed Apache to do a couple of tests and everything worked correctly. Of all the servers analyzed East
**It is the free VPS server that has given us the best impression**

|Processor||1 vCore 2.4 GHz|
|RAM||2GB|
|Storage||3GB NVMe SSD|
|IPs||1 IPv4|
|Operating system||Debian (Linux)|
|Bandwidth||100 Mbps|
|Others|
|Card required||No|
|Duration||Forever|
 8.Baehost
Baehost is a
**Leading information technology company** from Argentina. They boast of professionalism, seriousness and extensive experience in the technology sector. On their website they offer us
**2 free VPS plans** that look very good.The only drawback is that the 100% free service is only available during a **12 day trial period**

|Plan VM-2||Plan HV-2|
|Processor||2 core Xeon||2 core Xeon|
|RAM||2GB||2GB|
|Storage||200GB||60GB|
|IPs||1 IPv4 or IPv6||1 ​​IPv4 or IPv6|
|Operating system||Linux or Windows||Linux or Windows|
|Bandwidth||20 Mbps burst (unlimited5 Mbps burst (unlimited)|
|Others||VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus Virtualization + VMware vCloud Director||Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization + Cloud OS|
|Requires card||No||No|
|Duration||12 days||12 days|
 9.Ludiba Group
Finally we are going to analyze a particular case. Ludiba Group is a
**Non-profit association founded by Luis Dieguez a young Spaniard passionate about technologyLuis has set up his own VPS server and offers it completely free of charge for 30 days** to anyone who requests it. The reason for this temporary limitation is that there is user rotation and anyone can enjoy a VPS server for free. Although the 30-day limitation is a handicap, it is undoubtedly an excellent initiative of this guy who provides a fully operational VPS that we can use for any task

|Processor||2 cores (3.33 GHz to 3.60 GHz)|
|RAM||From 1 GB to 2 GB|
|Storage||15 GB SSD + 30 GB HDD|
|IPs||1 IPv4 (Spanish)|
|Operating system||Windows 10 Home, Debian 9 or Ubuntu Desktop|
|Bandwidth||66 Mbps ⇓ 45 Mbps ⇑ (unmetered traffic)|
|Others|
|Card required||No|
|Duration||30 days|
## Conclusions about free VPS
as the saying goes
*Nobody gives hard four pesetas*, that is, nobody gives anything away in exchange for nothing. In the digital world it is also common to say that **if something is free, it is that the product is you With this we want to clarify that the Free VPS services are not going to be an exception. After the research carried out to write this article, we have found strategies of all kinds. The most common is to offer you the service as a claim so that
**you register and thus obtain your dataThen they probably use said data for commercial purposes.Another very common strategy is to use the free VPS concept as a disguise to perform
**Advertising SPAMMany websites that offer this service are plagued with advertising in their registration process to finally tell you that they do not have the service available.The purchase process is simply a strategy to show you advertising and more advertising in order to that you click on the ads, since it is their source of income. In short, it is possible to hire a free VPS, although you should be cautious and keep in mind that there may be hidden interests behind it. In our experience
**We recommend that you stay away from these types of services since they are usually a source of problems I am sure that your project deserves that you invest some money, even if it is a small amount. We recommend that you purchase a
** Inexpensive VPS ** since you will have more guarantees and you will avoid many problems. Another alternative is to purchase a Cloud Server such as Amazon EC2 that provides you with up to 1 year of service completely free of charge. More than enough time to validate your project. ## Frequent questions
 What is a VPS server? The initials VPS mean Virtual Private Server, which in Spanish translates as virtual private server. In a very abbreviated way we can say that it is a method that consists of
**divide a physical server into several virtual servers **so that these work completely independently of each other Differences between a managed and unmanaged VPS
The

**Unmanaged VPS** are designed for **users with extensive technical knowledge** to perform tasks such as updates, service configurations, security management, etc. The user is responsible for problems within the server: failures security, application incompatibilities..

Secondly,
**in a managed server, the provider is in charge of maintenance and** correct **configuration **of it and solving possible problems that may arise.The drawback is that it is more expensive to have this technical support.In short,
**choosing one type or another depends mainly on the client's technical knowledge** in terms of system administration What is the difference between shared hosting and a VPS?Both shared and VPS hosting are used to host websites but there are big differences between both types. Mainly two stand out:
- In shared hosting, all clients share the same hardware resources (CPU, RAM so that if a client consumes a large amount of resources, it can affect other clients. Security can also be compromised in some cases since there is no total isolation between clients.On the other hand, in a VPS server each client has exclusive resources and is completely isolated from the others in a virtual way.- The other notable difference between the two is the configuration capacity. A shared hosting has its configuration limited by the provider.In Changing to a VPS, the client has total freedom to configure it according to their needs and install applications How much does a VPS server cost?The price varies depending on the resources available to the server, whether it is managed or not and the extra features that you have (IPs, paid software, DNS, etc The most basic price can start from about €2 per month up to hundreds of euros. It is also possible to find free VPS servers Do I really need a Virtual Private Server (VPS)? Many times people mistakenly think that they need to make the leap from shared hosting to VPS because they have run out of resources and with VPS they will have more performance. But this really is not true. If the main reason to switch to a VPS server is performance, you should know that

**The performance/cost ratio is higher in a shared hosting than in a VPS In other words, to have the same performance in a VPS you will have to pay more. The reason for this is that in a shared hosting they take advantage of more resources by distributing them among several clients, which translates into lower costs. Among all the hosted websites, only a minority will be receiving high traffic spikes and they will be the ones that pull the most from the server; the rest will be on "stand-by". In the VPS server, the assigned resources are exclusive and there will be no possibility of benefiting from part of the performance of another client in the event of a peak of requests. In short,
**the key in shared hosting** to avoid compromising performance **is the professionalism of the provider** so that they do not excessively overload their machines. Therefore, if you need more performance you can increase the capacities of your shared hosting by choosing Serious providers like Raiola Networks, Webempresa or SiteGround. Leaving performance aside, the main reasons why you should choose VPS over shared hosting are:
Guaranteed resources: in a VPS you make sure that the hardware resources you contract are the ones you will have and the service will not be affected by problems from other clients. Total server administration capacity: in a VPS server the software is not limited to what hosting offers. You can install any application and have your own tools, enjoying the freedom to perform more advanced tasks. This implies that the VPS server is more complex to manage. Although there are hybrid solutions such as managed VPS for which you have technical supportWhen should I contract a VPS? A VPS is an "upgrade" of a shared hosting and it can be convenient for you in the following cases:
- Our project has grown and we need more resources
- We need an environment with greater reliability and performance for our projects
- We want more control over the configuration of the server and its services
- Total flexibility regarding the software we want to install