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No root shell: the terms call it 'not a general virtual server'.","tooling":"the vendor panel, or SFTP; no SSH client of your own choosing","chaining":"A process that must stay up and must not be visited to stay up: a scraper worker, a queue consumer, a Discord or Telegram bot, or a scheduled script with a stateful database beside it.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"256 MB RAM, 512 MB disk, 25 per cent of a core per server","source":"https://sillydev.co.uk/terms"},{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"2 databases per account, 50 MB each, hard limit","source":"https://sillydev.co.uk/free-database-hosting"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"a server never used in its first 7 days is removed","source":"https://sillydev.co.uk/"}],"binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"256 MB of RAM with no swap and no sleep binds first: a scraper with a headless browser or a pandas frame will be killed by the OOM reaper long before any traffic allowance matters.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"no card: quoted 'No card, no trial, no expiry' and the register form asks username, email, password, confirm password, and optionally first and last name. 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