Whenever someone mentions that I can get a fairly expensive service for free
I'm a bit skeptical to say the least. And there are a ton of
free VPS scams ranking on Google and YouTube.
So, today I want to investigate and showcase some of these scams
and maybe I'll actually find a good free VPS that I can use myself.
If not at least I'll debunk all of these scam ones so you won't have to go
through the same trouble that I did.
Armed with only a fake email address a VPN and my shield of patience
I began my quest to find a free VPS or at least something close to it.
Absolutely destroying any scams that cross
my path. Like any sane person i just tried
googling for it because the search results that are at the top of Google
are usually legit right? Wrong. Very incorrect.
I had no idea what I'm getting myself into. There were some ads
Oh hey that's me in a video I did last year. But
the very first legit result seems to be vpssserver.com I've tried it out they
advertised a VPS trial for 7 days and I guess 7 days
is better than 0 days. I've registered using a throwaway email address
and it basically says I need to do more verification by sending them my
ID. Obviously I won't send my ID, address or postal code to a random company on
the internet that I found looking for a free product. And neither
should you! Because in the industry this is known as
really dumb. Anyway after just one failed
attempt I just searched some more, next up is gratisvps.net it's like the
granddaddy of scam VPS's? VPS? VPSI?
Nevermind, I've encountered it before and i'm sure i'll encounter it again
next year but first to understand these scams
I must become the scams. Using some advanced algorithms
mainframe hacking and the legacy club penguin account, I managed to plug my
brains directly into gratis vps and experience the scam
first hand. I didn't have enough rendering power to
render my legs so we'll just simulate them.
You can barely tell. Okay so let's analyze what we're working here
gratis vps says I can get a free VPS for up to 180 days.
By paying absolutely nothing. How are they able to do this I wonder?
Lies, lies and deception of course. If we would give the Gratis VPS homepage
a quick scroll you can see here that they try
so hard to look legit. Allegedly selling domain names and having these
ridiculously expensive web hosting plans. Like look at this
$30, $60 and $90
web hosting plans of course you can change the billing from monthly to
yearly by clicking here, but it does absolutely
nothing because oh oh someone forgot to change the
programming and they never thought anyone would check. Well, I checked and if
we would give this button a press right here. It
actually just takes you to the top of the homepage
and does absolutely nothing but waste your time. It's
generally amazing how little effort they put into this scam
but just for the sake of this video I'll bite I'll try this service out and see
what happens. Obviously I'll have to go through some
setup steps to set up and configure my VPS server.
Obviously none of these steps actually matter nothing is going on
and while the server is supposedly configuring
go ahead and like the video you have some time it'll only take like half a
second. Thanks man! Oh and surprise surprise the
free VPS is actually out of stock. And they're
promoting their paid services which don't even make sense, the personal
plan is more expensive than the professional one
and the pricing is all over the place in general. At best
they're reselling cheap two dollar plans at a thousand percent markup
at worst they're just stealing your money. Never buy anything from GratisVPS
and I'm actually sick of this website and I feel like I'm getting poisoned by
these scams so I'll go ahead and just leave. In all seriousness sometimes
you'll get this screen as well it will tell you to click some ads to
unlock your free VPS obviously this is another trick to get
you to click ads. Because whenever you click an ad they
get money plain and simple. Avoid GratisVPS at
all costs let's take this scam down. Next down the
search results was Cloudsigma offering a 7d trial as well with no
credit card required. I immediately jumped at the opportunity
but to my disappointment they either never offer the free VPS or its just
completely broken. I won't go into too much detail but I
just couldn't get it to work, I couldn't register properly the
interface seemed glitchy and long story short it just didn't work
for me. Determined to find my free VPS I've kept scrolling through the Google search
results and I found providers like VPSwala which turned out to be a
complete scam and they didn't change anything from last year.
They operate exactly like GratisVPS and they're showing ads everywhere
they also ask for a lot of personal information and passwords
likely stealing your data. Avoid at all costs again.
Okay, this is getting ridiculous I've spent multiple hours going as far as the
third page of Google I found alaVPS, Hostimul and WoomHost
all 3 turned out to be scams or
discontinued. At this point, I found many many many
many more free vps scams but I don't even
want to show them because it's always pretty much the same
deal. I'll just probably put a huge list of everything that didn't work somewhere
around here so if you find a provider and it's on
this list I've tried it. It doesn't work.
1. it's an ad farm and
they lure you in to click ads. 2. They advertise free VPS trials but
there are no trials. 3. They're just blatantly
lying using the words free vps everywhere on the website
but there's no such thing and everything is a paid service.
Basically these 3 points cover every single search result
that there is on Google search. I've also tried to checking
Reddit and YouTube. But all I found was promotions for the same scam website
or methods that actually reset the VPS after like 10 minutes or 20 minutes. So,
it's completely useless and at this point I'm gonna be straight
there is no such thing as a free vps every single year I try to get one and
every single year I fail. But there are options that are pretty
near close to something that you could call a free VPS.
Cloudways allows you to register for a 3 day VPS trial with only a phone number
and an email address. I was able to quickly verify my account
and deploy a VPS. After my verification I've set up a VPS
with a Digital Ocean and after it was done configuring I was
able to launch my applications like WordPress, PHP scripts, Magento,
Laravel and stuff like that. But keep in mind that it does not support Python.
Cloudways is great when you want to get started quickly because you can set
up your server within 10 minutes and you don't even need to attach a credit card.
So, there's no way they can bill you later. Amazon also allows you to create a
micro VPS instance for 12 months you can sign up for free but you will
need a valid phone number and a credit card with at least $1
in it because they take it and send it back to check
if it's valid. But if you go through the registration you can create these
VPS that have the free tier eligible for one year
it's quite a good deal but be careful because there are no safety nets.
If you use more resources than the free tiers allows
your credit card will be charged. Finally if you don't want to mess with trials I
recommend you get a cheap vps instead. There are plenty of reputable providers
But I personally use the cheap plans from A2 Hosting.
Because you can get started for as low as $5 per month and have
everything you need. A2hosting also has a hassle-free
money-back guarantee. So, if you buy for like 6 months but only use your VPS
for 2 months they'll return the money for 4 unused
months so it's quite a cost effective deal.
But I don't want to join the ranks of scammers and I want to be completely
honest with you I'll make a commission if you buy
anything through the links in the description
that's how I monetize my channel and can spend hours,
days or weeks busting scammers, creating tutorials,
and doing these videos as a full-time job. So, thank you for the support.
Okay so here's the thing about a free VPS
they're just too expensive to give out for free and the best thing
you can get to a free vps is just a trial. But in my opinion cheap is always better
than free because when you buy a cheap VPS
you can at least hold the provider accountable if something
happens and you can be sure that they're not
mining your data or using you in some sort of other ways.
For now, this was my look at what the best scammers in the world can offer
when it comes to free vps my name is Emit, subscribe to the channel
for more content like this and good luck finding your free vps.