{"rid":"compute/euserv-vs2-free","card":{"rid":"compute/euserv-vs2-free","eid":"euserv","topic":"compute","slug":"euserv-vs2-free","provider":"EUserv VS2-free","url":"https://www.euserv.com/de/vserver/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","domain":"euserv.com","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"retention-clamped","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":1,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":1,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":30,"verified_at":"2026-10-24T04:09:20.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-25","stale_on":"2026-11-24","n_evidence":15,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"A container-based Linux server with full root, free while renewed by hand each month. Quoted: 'The model \"VS2-free\" can be used free of charge in the basic v...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"euserv-vs2-free","provider":"EUserv VS2-free","url":"https://www.euserv.com/de/vserver/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"A container-based Linux server with full root, free while renewed by hand each month. Quoted: 'The model \"VS2-free\" can be used free of charge in the basic version with IPv6'. Spec, quoted from the product table: 'Frequency 1 Core @ 1 GHz', 'Virtualization Type Linux Container', 'RAM 1 GB', 'Harddisk 10 GB HDD @ Raid10', 'Network-Card 1x 1Gbit', 'monthly included traffic volume 1 TB'. One IPv6 /128 is included and the IPv4 row is a dash, so the free model ships no IPv4 at all.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","read_on":"2026-10-24","notes":"perpetual-renewable, not perpetual: free only while the customer renews it monthly"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.euserv.com/de/vserver/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"The contract is 'Contract Term* | possible contract terms | 1 month' with 'Contract renewal type | automatic or manual | manual', and the vendor's own forum answers the question directly: asked whether the customer must renew by hand each month, the forum support account replies 'yes.'; asked whether it can be automated, 'no'; asked what happens if it is forgotten, 'server becomes down'; asked whether that costs money again, 'no until offer is valid.' Extension now also requires an emailed PIN: 'since the extension of a VS2free server has now verification PINs that we send by email'.","days":30,"source_url":"https://forum.euserv.com/index.php?topic=10932.0","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"'Traffic | monthly included traffic volume | 1 TB', and above it: 'If the inclusive traffic is exceeded, the connection becomes capped to 1Mbit/s, if no additional traffic is purchased by customer'","metered":true,"free_allowance":"1 TB","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"1 GiB and 1 TB a month for nothing is the cheapest always-on European origin in the corpus, and it composes with a free IPv4-to-IPv6 front; the monthly manual renewal is the part that cannot be automated without storing credentials somewhere.","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"'If the inclusive traffic is exceeded, the connection becomes capped to 1Mbit/s, if no additional traffic is purchased by customer'","source":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"a 1-month contract with manual renewal and an emailed verification PIN; a missed renewal takes the server down","source":"https://forum.euserv.com/index.php?topic=10932.0"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"1 TB of monthly traffic; no IPv4 address is included in the free model","source":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php"}],"limits_note":"the binding is the address family plus the monthly manual renewal: one /128 of IPv6 and no IPv4, and a server that stops when a human forgets to renew it","binding":"retention-clamped","binding_note":"the renewal is manual and now needs an emailed PIN, so the machine dies on a human omission before the 1 TB cap is reached; the missing IPv4 is the second wall, because most IPv4-only clients cannot open the SSH session at all","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"No card and no hold: the free model is ordered without payment, and prepayment is only described for paid orders ('Any customer has to prepay each new order in our secured customer panel'). The registration form was read today and its required fields are: 'Email Address *', 'PIN for Email Validation *', 'Customer Type' (Private or Corporate), 'Salutation *', 'First Name *', 'Last Name *', 'Country *', 'Date of Birth (DD.MM.YYYY) *' and 'Password *'. A company name and a VAT-ID are optional ('VAT-ID (only for EU-Companies) (optional)'). The country list has 252 entries including 'United States', 'China' and 'Taiwan, Province Of China', so a non-EU signup is offered. The postal address, city and phone are NOT on the registration form; they are completed afterwards in the customer panel, and third-party guides report that the order only becomes effective once they are filled in. No ID document is requested anywhere read. Nothing was signed up for.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event observed. The known failure mode is procedural and documented by the vendor: a missed monthly renewal takes the server down, and the renewal needs a reachable email address to receive the PIN.","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/de/vserver/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"product table states 1 Core @ 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB HDD @ Raid10, 1 TB monthly traffic with a fall to 1 Mbit/s after it, 1x IPv6 /128 and no included IPv4, quoted"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/de/vserver/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"contract table states 1 Monat term and 手动 renewal, quoted"},{"url":"https://forum.euserv.com/index.php?topic=10932.0","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the vendor forum answers that a renewal action must be performed by hand every month and cannot be automated, and that the server becomes down if forgotten, quoted from the search snippet"},{"url":"https://www.nodeseek.com/post-105501-1","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"a user reports the renewal screen now shows One-time extension fee: 2.00 EUR with month: 0.00 EUR, which is a change to the free terms and is not confirmed by a vendor page"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'The model \"VS2-free\" can be used free of charge in the basic version with IPv6 and is ideal for testing, as a development environment or as the basis for creating larger and growing systems.'"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted spec: 'Frequency | 1 Core @ 1 GHz', 'Virtualization Type | Linux Container', 'RAM | 1 GB', 'Harddisk | 10 GB HDD @ Raid10', 'Network-Card | 1x 1Gbit'"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted, traffic and its cap: 'Traffic | monthly included traffic volume | 1 TB' and 'If the inclusive traffic is exceeded, the connection becomes capped to 1Mbit/s, if no additional traffic is purchased by customer'"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted, the address family: 'IPv4-Addresses | free of charge | -', 'additional IPv4 | EUR per IP / mo | yes, optional up to 16', 'IPv6-Addresses | free of charge | 1x /128' - the dash in the IPv4 row is what makes the free model IPv6-only"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/index.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the series table shows the VS2-free row's IPv4 count as '-' while every paid VS2 model lists '1' or '4', and describes the line as 'IPv4 / IPv6 dual stack (with \" VS2-free\" optional IPv4)'"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted, the contract: 'Contract Term* | possible contract terms | 1 month' and 'Contract renewal type | automatic or manual | manual'"},{"url":"https://forum.euserv.com/index.php?topic=10932.0","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted, the vendor's own answer on 2026-01-20 to 'I need to perform a renew action by hand every month?': 'yes.'; 'Can this be handled automatically?': 'no'; 'What happens when I forget this?': 'server becomes down'; 'That incurs again a payment?': 'no until offer is valid.'"},{"url":"https://forum.euserv.com/index.php?topic=9508.0","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'since the extension of a VS2free server has now verification PINs that we send by email, please take care that your email-address, that is used in customer data is valid _and_ reachable'"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/register.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the live registration form (fetched through the page's own cmd=display_registration_v3 endpoint) lists as required: 'Email Address *', 'PIN for Email Validation *', 'Salutation *', 'First Name *', 'Last Name *', 'Country *', 'Date of Birth (DD.MM.YYYY) *', 'Password *'; the country select carries 252 options including 'United States', 'China' and 'Taiwan, Province Of China'"},{"url":"https://cart.euserv.com/en/support/payment-types.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted, that payment is a paid-order matter and is available worldwide: 'Any customer has to prepay each new order in our secured customer panel via - bank transfer or - PayPal or - Credit Card' and 'Worldwide via Credit Card: Make live payments via credit card'"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/wiki/index.php/Kundencenter_Kundenaccount/en","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted, the account flow: 'On the following page you have to enter your customer data', 'Please fill out the form completely', 'A few minutes after registration a confirmation e-mail with your new customer ID will be sent'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-24T04:09:20.000Z","notes":"VERIFIED 2026-10-24. It is real and it is orderable: the product page is live, the contract table and the vendor's own forum confirm the free model, and a non-EU country is selectable at registration. (1) It is NOT permanent. The contract is one month with manual renewal, the vendor answers 'yes' to 'do I renew by hand every month', and 'server becomes down' if you forget. Calling it 'free forever' is wrong; it is free for as long as a human renews it monthly, and the renewal now needs an emailed PIN. (2) IPv4: the free model includes NONE - the row is a dash - and IPv4 is an optional paid add-on ('additional IPv4 | EUR per IP / mo | yes, optional up to 16'). The price is a dash here because the page renders it client-side from an endpoint that returned the same figure for every row id tried, so the answer could not be attributed to the IPv4 row and was discarded rather than recorded. (3) The registration form asks for a date of birth and a country but NOT a postal address or phone; those go into the customer panel afterwards, and third-party guides report the order stays ineffective until they are filled in. No ID document is requested. The German page carries the same table, so the terms are not an English-only rendering. Signup URL: https://www.euserv.com/en/register.php, then the order link on the product page.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"perpetual-vps","free_tier_kind":"perpetual-renewable","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":1,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null,"disk_gib":10}},"r04_2026_10_24":{"permanence":"manual monthly renewal, not automatic; 'server becomes down' if forgotten (vendor forum, 2026-01-20)","ipv4_in_free_model":false,"ipv4_addon_price_eur":null,"ipv4_addon_price_note":"the product page renders the add-on price through an ajax endpoint that answered 1.19 for every row id tried (1, 2, 3, 9) and for the IPv6 row too, so it does not discriminate the row; the figure is not recorded","signup_form_required":["email","email PIN","customer type","salutation","first name","last name","country","date of birth","password"],"signup_form_optional":["company","VAT-ID (EU companies only)","mailing list"],"country_list_size":252,"non_eu_signup_offered":true,"postal_address_on_registration_form":false,"id_document_requested":false}},"confidence_note":"shape, traffic, IPv4 absence and contract term are quoted from the product page read today; the manual-renewal consequence is quoted from the vendor's own forum answer; the required signup fields are read from the live registration form. The IPv4 add-on price is a dash: the page renders it client-side from an endpoint whose answer could not be attributed to the IPv4 row."},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":1,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}