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The FAQ states registration is blocked in some countries; Two open questions. One, whether 'login' means an interactive SSH session or any authentication, which decides whether a cron inside the host counts. Two, whether the TCP port is reachable from outside, because the services page lists it as a feature but no page states an inbound firewall rule. The host did not answer on 22 from this vantage, which is a routing fact and not a verdict.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"pubnix-shell","free_tier_kind":"perpetual","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":0.25,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0,"disk_mib":500}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":500,"unit":"MB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.evidence[2].proved","withheld"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}