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The application is a Google Form.","country":null},"reliability_note":"No reliability event observed. The project publishes a status link to a HetrixTools monitor.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The allocation count, the specification and the eligibility rules are quoted from the project's own page read today. The page is small and the project is one person's, so this is documented about the offer and about the current full capacity.","evidence":[{"url":"https://freemach.rowe.sh/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'EU1 (AlphaVPS, Bulgaria): 10/10 VMs Allocated (0 slots free)', 'US1 (VirMach, New York): 10/10 VMs Allocated (0 slots free)'; 'LES/HT/LET account must be at least 3 months old at time of application'; 'Must pass a FraudRecord check'; specs '2 vCPU', '2GB RAM', '25GB SSD', '1TB @ 1 Gbps', '1 IPv4'"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-24T04:12:03.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"A real project with real sponsors and a real specification, recorded because it is the clearest illustration of why the free-VPS forum layer is not a route for a user: every slot is full, and the door is a three-month-old forum account plus a fraud check. The corpus already carries freevps.org and microlxc on the same reputation model. Nothing here is a defect in the project; it is simply not available to a person who is not already in that community.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":2,"ram_gib":2,"disk_gib":25,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"free","term":"not published","m10h_usd":0,"m24h_usd":0,"price_arithmetic":"no charge; the constraint is eligibility and capacity, not price","free_tier_kind":"free-forever-with-quota","network_out":{"allow_outbound":true,"allow_inbound_listen":true,"ports":"1 IPv4, 1 TB a month at 1 Gbps","static_ip":true,"ipv6":false,"per_session_bytes":null},"session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":null,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"no clock published; 'no idlers' is the stated policy"}}},"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":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":2,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}