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The page's own summary reads '$0', 'No credit card or payment ever required'.","unit":"GB","metered_on":"downloaded-bytes","source_url":"https://freevps.org/","read_on":"2026-10-24","notes":"the vendor writes GB and does not say whether decimal or binary; kept as stated. The 2026-05 announcement thread on LowEndTalk still shows the older smaller figures (512 MB RAM, 10 GB disk, 250 GB on a 100 Mbps port), so the site is the newer statement"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: the unit is a virtual machine, not an object"},"retention":{"stated":"Quoted: 'There is no fixed term guarantee. Virtual machines may be reclaimed if physical nodes are reorganized.' No inactivity clock is published.","source_url":"https://freevps.org/","notes":"the only stated reclamation trigger is a hypervisor being reorganised, which is a capacity event rather than a timer"},"egress":{"terms":"Quoted: 'Bandwidth 250GB on 150 Mbps port' on the regular allocation, and '500GB on 300 Mbps port' on the charity-donor allocation. The vendor does not say what happens after the 250 GB.","metered":true,"free_allowance":"250GB","source_url":"https://freevps.org/"},"interface":["ssh"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"NAT KVM with 20 forwarded ports, root over SSH on a non-standard port, IPv6 /64 or /80, no individual support - all questions go to the community thread.","chaining":"Twenty forwarded IPv4 ports plus a dedicated IPv6 subnet is real inbound reachability for 20 services, which the BoxyBSD box does not give without buying an address or using a shared load balancer. It composes with the forum identity: the same LowEndTalk account that earns this also reaches other sponsored offers.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"250 GB of traffic a month on a 150 Mbps port for the regular allocation","source":"https://freevps.org/"},{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"20 forwarded NAT IPv4 ports; a dedicated IPv6 /64 or /80 subnet","source":"https://freevps.org/"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"four forum gates: an account 3 months or older, 50+ substantive posts, 25+ received thanks, and a meaningful comment on the request thread carrying the portal Client No and ID","source":"https://freevps.org/"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"no fixed term; a VM may be reclaimed if a physical node is reorganised","source":"https://freevps.org/"}],"limits_note":"Eligibility is gated on a 3-month-old forum account with 50 posts and 25 thanks, so the wait is three months of participation before a machine exists; after that the binding limit is the 250 GB a month and the absence of any term guarantee.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"the machine is not bought or booked but awarded: a forum account three months old with 50 posts and 25 thanks is a social-history gate that a client starting today cannot clear at any price","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"No card and no hold: the site states 'No credit card or payment ever required'. no payment field exists on the form. The real gate is not identity but forum standing: 'Active forum account', 'Account age: 3 months or older', '50 or more substantive posts', 'At least 25 received thanks'.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event observed the vendor states 'There is no SLA provided. Uptime is provided on a best-effort basis and sustained by volunteers.' and publishes no status page on the pages read","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://freevps.org/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'13 Bare-Metal Nodes Online across 4 continents / 7 Datacenter Regions / $0 Cost to Members / No credit card or payment ever required', quoted; probe 200, 68462 bytes, sha256 709d6c8f8b5c74a533493a657943431898f329b37abc732516347a1387bec30b"},{"url":"https://freevps.org/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the four criteria are 'Active forum account', 'Account age: 3 months or older', '50 or more substantive posts', 'At least 25 received thanks', quoted"},{"url":"https://freevps.org/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the Regular Community allocation is 'CPU 1 core (fair share) / RAM 1GB, up to 2GB with justification / Disk 20GB / Bandwidth 250GB on 150 Mbps port / IPv4 20 forwarded NAT ports / IPv6 /64 or /80 dedicated subnet', quoted"},{"url":"https://freevps.org/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'There is no SLA provided. Uptime is provided on a best-effort basis' and 'There is no fixed term guarantee. Virtual machines may be reclaimed if physical nodes are reorganized', quoted"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/181789/free-nat-kvms-twelve-locations-us-eu-gb-jp-freevps-org","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the offer thread's standing notes read 'There is NO SLA on this service, in fact, frequent server reboots might be needed... No Backups are done on our side, disks are running in RAID0 YOLO mode... There is no term guarantee', quoted in the search snippet"},{"url":"https://freevps.org/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'CPU 1 core (fair share)', 'RAM 1GB, up to 2GB with justification', 'Disk 20GB NVMe/SSD/HDD, up to 40GB', 'Bandwidth 250GB on 150 Mbps port', 'IPv4 20 forwarded NAT ports', 'IPv6 /64 or /80 dedicated subnet'"},{"url":"https://freevps.org/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: '$0', 'Cost to Members', 'No credit card or payment ever required'"},{"url":"https://freevps.org/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'You must have a verifiable history of recent, ongoing participation on LowEndTalk or LowEndSpirit.', 'Account age: 3 months or older', '50 or more substantive posts', 'At least 25 received thanks'"},{"url":"https://freevps.org/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'There is no fixed term guarantee. Virtual machines may be reclaimed if physical nodes are reorganized.' and 'There is no SLA provided. Uptime is provided on a best-effort basis and sustained by volunteers.'"},{"url":"https://portal.freevps.org/order/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the registration form as served: inputs for first_name, last_name, address1, city, zip, phone, email, tax_id, custom_field1 labelled 'LET Username', new_password, recovery_email and an agree_tos checkbox; no card or payment input anywhere in the form"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/181789/free-nat-kvms-courtesy-of-gthost-crunchbits-scaleblade-and-piehasbeeneaten-freevps-org/p1","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the vendor's own thread, 'How To Get A Free VPS': 'head over to portal.freevps.org, click Register, and sign up. Note both your \"Client No: ____\" and \"Your ID: ____\" for use in a meaningful comment in this thread'; and the twelve named hypervisor sponsors with their locations"},{"url":"https://freevps.org/sponsors.html","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'VirtFusion powers our hypervisor management layer', 'Blesta provides the account lifecycle and client management infrastructure', 'Onidel sponsors the server that hosts our VirtFusion management control panel'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-24T06:14:00.000Z","notes":"Not in dossier/compute before this record. The eligibility is the whole story: the machine is excellent and free, and it is unavailable to anyone without three months of forum history, 50 posts and 25 thanks. That is not a defect in the offer, it is the offer. What could not be established: whether the 250 GB is a hard cut or a shape-down, whether the 20 forwarded ports include UDP, and what the renewal cadence is (the site names Blesta renewal notifications but publishes no interval). What would settle them: the FreeVPS wiki, whose front page was read and carries no substance yet, and the forum thread.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"perpetual-vps","free_tier_kind":"perpetual","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":1,"disk_gib":20,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}},"shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":1,"disk_gib":20,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"free","term":"no fixed term","m10h_usd":0.0,"m24h_usd":0.0,"price_arithmetic":"no price: '$0' and 'No credit card or payment ever required'","free_tier_kind":"perpetual","network_out":{"allow_outbound":true,"allow_inbound_listen":true,"ports":"20 forwarded NAT IPv4 ports; UDP on those ports is not stated","static_ip":false,"ipv6":true,"per_session_bytes":null},"session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":null,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"none published; the VM is a KVM guest that persists until reclaimed"},"fleet":{"hypervisors":13,"regions":7,"locations":"USA, UK, Sweden, Romania, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand"},"eligibility":["forum account 3 months or older","50 or more substantive posts","25 or more received thanks","a meaningful comment on the request thread with the portal Client No and ID"],"donor_tier":"USD 5 or more to any charity, receipt posted; raises the allocation to 2 cores, 2 GB, 40 GB and 500 GB traffic; the four forum gates still apply"},"tier":"Regular Community","confidence_note":"shape, traffic, ports and the four eligibility gates are quoted from the vendor's own page read today; the portal form was read as served; no account was created and no instance was measured"},"claims":[{"path":"$.extras.m10h_usd","kind":"price","num":0.0,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0.0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.extras.m24h_usd","kind":"price","num":0.0,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0.0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1.0,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":250.0,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[3].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}