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The record's notes call the fee real-name verification and add a WeChat account for the check-in mini-programme, but no evidence row quotes the words real-name, ID document or national ID, so whether an ID number is submitted is not stated. No card, hold, debit or prepaid term is stated.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://simpfun.tx648.cn/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted, translated: a daily check-in is enough to keep a 4 vCPU / 16 GiB server running long term; from SFE4.0 a CNY 1 verification fee is required before opening a server, to prevent abuse; domestic BGP routing, Docker container isolation, 100,000 or more users"},{"url":"https://d.709000.xyz/","date":"2026-10-01","proved":"the community documentation site, confirming the platform runs a public doc set and that signup uses an invitation code"},{"url":"https://game.3loumao.org/588188917","date":"2026-05-01","proved":"a third-party guide, translated: registration costs one yuan and the reason given is to prevent abuse; the free shape is described as a panel server with reliable domestic network quality"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Recorded as `fails-identity` because the door is real-name verification, which is a national-id gate, plus a WeChat account for the check-in mini-programme. The shape is the finding: 16 GiB for free with no clock is the largest free VM shape found, and it sits behind the corpus's standard China wall. ⚠ The documentation is for a game server panel and not a general VM, so the tooling is a web console and a game template rather than SSH that is a tooling note and not a rejection. Whether the 16 GiB tier is still offered, or whether it has fallen to 8 GiB, is unverified: the page states both.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"free-vps","free_tier_kind":"allowance","shape":{"vcpu":4,"ram_gib":16,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":16.0,"unit":"GiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}