Is it possible to get a Free VPS ? 2020

Getting a free vps in 2020 is not easy as it used to be 5-6 years ago. Those old days there were do many free vps providers. Today I see only one which has survived from those old times. Rest of them are long gone. Even some of those providers which I believed would last much longer vanished. Well they didn't just vanished like most of the minor free vps providers but announced their closer and shut down the service.

It's not that easy to run a Free VPS service. It's lot easy to provide free shared hosting but Servers are a whole different story. You can get just one VPS and provide 100's of free shared hosting accounts. But that doesn't work same way for servers. First of all each VPS needs a unique IP Address. These cost at least 1 usd per month. So provider offer 50 servers that cost at least 50 usd per month minimum. Also there are other costs like for dedicate server. So it rarely a sustainable service.

Only way to have a sustainable and long running free VPS service is finding sponsors for that. VPS providers who could offer couple of free servers and in returning getting more exposure for their brand names. Banner Ads and a backlink from user websites.

Even this becoming not easy since smaller web hosting providers finding it harder and harder to complete with big hosting companies. Smaller providers getting thrown out of the market since they have hard time offering competitive prices and keep the business floating.

So Today, Only Free VPS Provider out there which has been around for a while is Post4VPS.com which has been doing quite well. They do offer dozen or so servers in monthly give aways. There are several requirements, Once you complete those you can apply for a VPS. If you are lucky enough to win one from the give away you need to make 20 quality posts per month in their forum.

It's a pretty good offer since there are many good servers. YOu can get VPS from 4GB / 8GB to smaller servers with 1GB or less. There are servers from many locations too. Most of these VPS use SSD space. Maybe let you run game servers.

It's quite a far deal getting a server which would cost you at least 5 usd per month just for 20 posts in a forum. How hard it is to make 20 posts in 30 days? So anyone who wants to have free vps should check the site.

How to Get a Free VPS

In 2007 I have started this Manga related forum with a friend of mine. This forum has become hyper active in couple of months so we were kicked out of  the free shared hosting service we were using. After that we used half dozen of web hosting services till we had a 2 year stint at Godaddy Hosting. Anyway at end we had to get a VPS but it was really expensive choice those days. 128MB RAM VPS would cost around $5 but these providers didn't last long. They always vanished and we had to use another provider again and again. This happened still we found Knownhost where we had to buy a 1GB VPS + cPanel/WHM for around $35 per month. They are the best service I have ever used and we still use them ever since.

But today you don't need to spend that much for a vps. There are insanly cheap cloud vps packages and even 2GB RAM vps with ssd can be bought for around $5 per month. If you don't have way to pay then there are are even free vps service providers. They offer you server in exchange of staying active in their forums. Post for Hosting has been around for ages but offering vps servers have started only couple of years ago.

Freevps.us is the best free vps provider out there and there is no contest for that. They have service which they rented by them selves and also servers sponsored by various VPS providers. They do hold a give away every month where more than 20  vps offered. Cost is creating 15 posts in every month in exchange using the server. I have been using them for over 3 year now and have had server for 2 years.

Post4VPS.com is another similar service which has founded quite recently. But they are slowly growing and increasing their pool of servers. You need to make 20 posts per month to keep a vps.

There are several more sites like these but I can recommend only these two since I used both. I wish we had these free vps offers when we were struggling with that forum I told about.

FreeVPS.us Review

Five years ago when I bought the first vps there weren't any legit free vps providers or anyone who give something really working. Those days 128MB vps cost me around $5 and even it was not a stable one. For years I thought free vps something not real. Those fake vps sites like Jelly3, Jelly5 didn't help it either. It was only 2 years old I discovered freevps.us. I was skeptical at begin but there there were so many members who had vps in forum my doubts cleared.

It looks like they have been around for 5 years !! At the moment they are the market leader in Free vps niche. Simply no other site can complete with them. They have dozen or more sponsors and also they give away vps funded by them selves. 

Their Requirements are simple. You need to have 30 posts at least. 55+ in their special score. It's kind of point system. So sometimes you might need more than 30 posts to reach this minimum score. or you might reach it even with less. All depends on how long your posts and reputation points you receive from others.

Every month they have a giveaway and you can apply for vps when this happen. There are vps from different locations, different specs and different providers. If you already have a free vps but want give it back get a different one then you can do that too.

Right now I have a free vps with 1GB RAM and 50GB space. It's from Hostigation. It's not a freevps.us sponsor. All vps from them are funded by the forum. Support is provided by forum staff, you can't directly contact the vps provider. But Staff members are friendly and experienced with vps related matters. 

You can register here >>  Here <<

There are several other free vps providers out there but Freevps.us is the No. 1 in the list. Their servers are from web hosting providers so you can use those for your sites without a problem.

Why do you need a free vps ?

I have seen so many people search for totally free vps servers. Why do you really need a free vps server ? giving away a free shared hosting account is not hard. But giving a free vps is not that easy. Specially if it's a proper vps with at least one dedicated IP address. These IPs cost around $0.50 - $1 per one monthly. Someone has to pay that.

This is one reason why it's really hard to run a free vps service. each vps cost at least $1 since you have to pay for IP addresses. So far I have seen only one successful free vps providers. Host1free is pretty much useless since they rarely pick one of to give a vps and even that's just  128MB RAM node which you can use for anything but testing things. Also there are fake free vps providers like freevps.me and other sites like 5Jelly.

If you are searching for a free vps then you should first thing about why do you need a free vps and do you really need a free vps. If you have a web site which can't run in a usual shared hosting account that means you get reasonable number of visitors per month. Then you should able to use ad network and try to earn some money from your site and buy a small cheap VPS server. You can find a decent un-manage one for around $5 per month or around $20 per year. I'm talking about a VPS with at least 1GB RAM and really good uptime. You will need to learn all about how to handle it from installations to security but you can learn all these stuff from forums. This is the best thing because having a free vps doesn't mean it would sort all your problems.

There are only 3 other reasonable things I can see why someone need a free vps. You might be a developer who's creating a  new web related software. You need a server to test and learn about servers. Or you are looking for vps so you can create a game server.

5Jelly and Hostinger

Just like I thought 5Jelly and 3Jelly free vps sites are also projects of  Hostinger Web hosting company which is also owns infamous YouHosting and freevps.me sites. Someone joined under my referrals and he has receive another free offer from Hostinger.co.uk out of nowhere so we can safely assume everyone use same contact detail data base.

It's same layout and control panel just different free sub domains. But I have to admit their new control panel and options look neat. You can forget about free vps accounts because it won't happen but their free shared hosting accounts seems pretty good. Maybe it's too early to say since I do have ugly previous experience with them. But I have to read more and find out how their free hosting account works because last time they deleted my account for lack of referrals.  I had no idea we needed keep having referrals to keep the account alive. I wonder if it's same still. Another thing is their support service is terrible or at least it used to be. Maybe now things are better.

VPS.me Review

In short it's a total waste of time. They suspended it even I could run it for 48 hours and only once logged into server and didn't have time even to run a Benchmark test. Ah I have to mention this happened a while back when they started the this free vps service. I thought to write about this because yesterday I found few interested forum posts where few members mentioned about vps.com and their experience with it.

Lets start with something someone posted at bit-tech.net forums. I thought it's better post the whole post so check this, (source)

Long version - apparently I needed to verify my mobile number. On adding my mobile number, I got an error, so I tried to contact their support, only to find that none of the links on the website work. I then call the UK number on their contact page (a UK mobile number), only to be told by the person that answered that I'd got the wrong number. I read it back and confirmed it was the right number.

I then tried looking up the WHOIS data for their domain, tracked it to hostinger.com who provide webhosting, then to hosting24.com who seem to provide their back-end servers. Talked to someone from their support who said they had no knowledge of vps.me.

So you can see from that post and any other vps.me reviews you can find on Google their contact details are pretty useless and phone numbers might be even fake.

Seems vps.me is run by Hostinger.com, Same company which owns and runs the infamous free hosting provider Youhosting.com. Since this one is one of their projects you can safely assume it not something good for anyone who looking for good free vps.

There were another couple of forum posts where people talking about if vps.me is just a personal data collector. (Link)  and (Link). Another person who has save problem I had. But he was lucky enough to run few Benchmark tests to check the vps he got (Link).

I really don't know what kind of scam they are running or it's they just sux and a total waste But I can tell you if you are looking for a free vps then better look somewhere else. You are not gonna get anything from them and if you get a free node by any chance it won't last very long.