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The section header reads 'i5 3470 Free Tier OUT OF STOCK' with the notice 'Currently out of stock until Thursday, October 29.'","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://cloud.ascsonoway.com/vps-micro/","read_on":"2026-10-24","notes":"the free plan is a container, not a KVM VM; the vendor calls it 'Container-based isolation'"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: the unit is a container, not an object"},"retention":{"stated":"Quoted: 'Free tier — renew every 30 days to confirm active use.' What happens to an unrenewed container is not stated on the page.","days":30,"source_url":"https://cloud.ascsonoway.com/vps-micro/","notes":"renewal is described as confirming active use; whether an unrenewed container is paused or deleted, and after how long, is not published"},"egress":{"terms":"not stated for the free tier: the plan card lists no traffic volume and no bandwidth figure","metered":false,"free_allowance":"unstated","source_url":"https://cloud.ascsonoway.com/vps-micro/"},"interface":["ssh","cli"],"interface_detail":"Quoted: 'Console Access' on every plan; the blog announcement adds 'Management: Web-Based Console Access + Direct SSH'. Full root access is stated for the micro instances generally.","tooling":"any SSH client; the vendor's panel; a one-click app catalogue including Docker, Tailscale, WG-Easy and Uptime Kuma","chaining":"a small always-on IPv6 container with a console, a renew-every-30-days clock and no card, which suits a monitor or a low-traffic IPv6 service rather than anything needing inbound IPv4","limits":[{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"the free container must be renewed every 30 days to confirm active use","source":"https://cloud.ascsonoway.com/vps-micro/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"16 GB SSD and 512 MB RAM on the free plan; no traffic allowance is stated","source":"https://cloud.ascsonoway.com/vps-micro/"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"the free plan is out of stock and the button is disabled until a restock date of 2026-10-29","source":"https://cloud.ascsonoway.com/vps-micro/"}],"binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"the free plan cannot be ordered at all on the day read: the card reads OUT OF STOCK and the order button is disabled in the markup","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"No card is named anywhere on the free plan card and the vendor advertises 'Free instant activation' on the paid VPS page; the order flow itself was not entered, so whether a card is asked for at checkout could not be read. No phone and no document appears on any page read.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event observed the vendor publishes a 99.8%+ uptime figure on the home page and states 'No formal uptime agreement' for the free tier","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"the shape, the price of zero and the out-of-stock state are quoted from the vendor's own plan card read today; the traffic allowance and the checkout's identity gate were not read, and the free plan was not orderable, so nothing was measured","evidence":[{"url":"https://cloud.ascsonoway.com/vps-micro/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'i5 3470 Free Tier OUT OF STOCK', 'Currently out of stock until Thursday, October 29.', and the card 'Free / renew every 30 days / 1 vCPU / 512MB RAM / 16GB SSD Storage / Console Access / Public IPv6 Alberta Address / Onoway, AB'"},{"url":"https://cloud.ascsonoway.com/vps-micro/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the served markup: the free plan's order button carries id='freeMicroBtn' with the disabled attribute and the text 'Out of Stock', and a restock constant reads 1793270400000 // 2026-10-29"},{"url":"https://cloud.ascsonoway.com/blog/learn-ipv6-networking-on-real-hardware-for-free-ascs-cloud-free-tier/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: '2 vCPUs (Intel Xeon L5630 allocation)', '2GB DDR3 RAM', '16GB SSD Storage', 'Dedicated Public IPv6 Alberta Address', 'Web-Based Console Access + Direct SSH', 'Pricing: $0 Free Tier (30-day active-use renewal)' - note this announcement states a larger shape than the live plan card"},{"url":"https://cloud.ascsonoway.com/about/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'ASCS Cloud (also known as AS Computer Solutions - Cloud Networks) is a technology and hosting provider based in Onoway, Alberta'"},{"url":"https://cloud.ascsonoway.com/contact/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"an email address behind Cloudflare obfuscation, a Discord invite and the location 'Onoway, Alberta, Canada'; no legal entity number is shown"},{"url":"https://cloud.ascsonoway.com/blog/learn-ipv6-networking-on-real-hardware-for-free-ascs-cloud-free-tier/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: '2 vCPUs (Intel Xeon L5630 allocation)', '2GB DDR3 RAM', '16GB SSD Storage', 'Dedicated Public IPv6 Alberta Address', 'Web-Based Console Access + Direct SSH', 'Pricing: $0 Free Tier (30-day active-use renewal)' — note this announcement states a larger shape than the live plan card"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-24T06:05:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"Not in dossier/compute before this record. The vendor's own blog announcement and its live plan card disagree on the free shape: the blog says 2 vCPU and 2 GB, the card says 1 vCPU and 512 MB. The card is the page that is served at the point of sale, so the record uses the card and the disagreement is written down rather than resolved. Out of stock on the day read, with a restock date of 2026-10-29; that is a timing gate, not a trap. What could not be established: the traffic allowance, and whether checkout asks for a card.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":0.5,"disk_gib":16,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"free","term":"30-day renewal","m10h_usd":0,"m24h_usd":0,"price_arithmetic":"no price: the plan card reads 'Free' with 'renew every 30 days'","free_tier_kind":"renewable-free","network_out":{"allow_outbound":true,"allow_inbound_listen":true,"ports":"public IPv6 only on the free plan; no IPv4 is listed","static_ip":true,"ipv6":true,"per_session_bytes":null},"session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":43200,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"30-day free period, renewed by hand to confirm active use"},"stock_state":{"as_read":"2026-10-24","state":"out of stock","restock_stated":"2026-10-29"},"shape_conflict":"the blog announcement of 2026-08-18 states 2 vCPU and 2 GB; the live plan card states 1 vCPU and 512 MB"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.extras.m10h_usd","kind":"price","num":0,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.extras.m24h_usd","kind":"price","num":0,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":512,"unit":"MB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":16,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}