{"rid":"compute/euserv","card":{"rid":"compute/euserv","eid":"euserv","topic":"compute","slug":"euserv","provider":"EUserv","url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/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":"ssh","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 root server, free while renewed by hand each month: 'The model \"VS2-free\" can be used free of charge in the basic version with IPv6 a...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":4},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"euserv","provider":"EUserv","url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"A container-based Linux root server, free while renewed by hand each month: '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.' Spec, quoted: '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; 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/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"One month, renewed by hand. The vendor's own forum answers the question directly: asked 'I need to perform a renew action by hand every month?', the support account replies 'yes.'; asked 'Can this be handled automatically?', 'no'; asked 'What happens when I forget this?', 'server becomes down'; asked 'That incurs again a payment?', 'no until offer is valid.' Extension now 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":["ssh"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"1 GB of RAM with full root and 1 TB of traffic is the largest permanent free general-purpose machine found, and because it is a Linux container it can run rclone, a crawler or an SSH tunnel from an IPv6-capable peer.","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. The live registration form requires '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 carries 252 entries including 'United States', 'China' and 'Taiwan, Province Of China', so a non-EU signup is offered. The postal address and phone are NOT on the registration form; they are filled in afterwards in the customer panel, and third-party guides report the order only becomes effective once they are. 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 stated 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/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'The model VS2-free can be used free of charge in the basic version with IPv6', quoted"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Frequency 1 Core @ 1 GHz', 'RAM 1 GB', 'Harddisk 10 GB HDD @ Raid10', 'monthly included traffic volume 1 TB', quoted"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'If the inclusive traffic is exceeded, the connection becomes capped to 1Mbit/s, if no additional traffic is purchased by customer', quoted"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'IPv4-Addresses free of charge -', 'additional IPv4 EUR per IP / mo yes, optional up to 16', 'IPv6-Addresses free of charge 1x /128', quoted"},{"url":"https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"re-read today and still offered: 'can be used free of charge in the basic version with IPv6', '1 Core @ 1 GHz', 'RAM 1 GB', 'Harddisk 10 GB HDD @ Raid10', 'monthly included traffic volume 1 TB', '1x /128' IPv6 and no IPv4 in the free model"},{"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 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'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-24T04:09:20.000Z","notes":"VERIFIED 2026-10-24, and this record's own notes were wrong. They said 'Not in the corpus: `ls dossier/compute | grep -i euserv` returns nothing' - but this file exists, and so does euserv-vs2-free.json. The same product is recorded twice under two slugs with different URLs; the parent session should merge them. The product is real and orderable. Three corrections. (1) It is NOT permanent: one-month contract, manual renewal, vendor answers 'yes' to renewing by hand and 'server becomes down' if you forget. (2) The free model includes NO IPv4 - the row is a dash - and IPv4 is a paid add-on ('additional IPv4 | EUR per IP / mo | yes, optional up to 16'). The price is a dash because the page renders it client-side from an endpoint that returned the same figure for every row id tried, so it could not be attributed to the IPv4 row. (3) Registration asks for a date of birth and a country, not a postal address or phone; those are entered afterwards in the customer panel. No ID document is requested. Signup: https://www.euserv.com/en/register.php, then the order link on the product page.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"new-provider","free_tier_kind":"free-forever","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":1,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}},"r04_2026_10_24":{"duplicate_of":"euserv-vs2-free","duplicate_note":"the same product is recorded under two slugs; this record and euserv-vs2-free.json now agree, and the parent session should merge them into one","record_error_found":"this record's notes claimed EUserv was absent from the corpus, which was false","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":"rendered client-side from 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; not recorded","signup_form_required":["email","email PIN","customer type","salutation","first name","last name","country","date of birth","password"],"country_list_size":252,"non_eu_signup_offered":true,"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":[["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}