{"rid":"compute/mikrus-frog","card":{"rid":"compute/mikrus-frog","eid":"mikr","topic":"compute","slug":"mikrus-frog","provider":"Mikrus FROG","url":"https://frog.mikr.us/","domain":"mikr.us","category":"cloud VM","tier":"FROG (free)","verdict":"fails-identity","vorder":4,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"reported","binding":"write-gated","identity_kind":"national-id","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":1,"needs_institution":0,"country":"Poland","crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":90,"verified_at":"2026-10-24T06:17:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-25","stale_on":"2026-11-08","n_evidence":6,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"A free LXC container: 256 MB RAM, 3 GB disk, Alpine Linux, managed at ssp.mikr.us. The vendor's own page states the service is for users in Poland. The live ...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":3},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"mikrus-frog","provider":"Mikrus FROG","url":"https://frog.mikr.us/","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"A free LXC container: 256 MB RAM, 3 GB disk, Alpine Linux, managed at ssp.mikr.us. The vendor's own page states the service is for users in Poland. The live origin returned a Polish-only block page on the day read, so the specification is taken from the search index's cached copy of the vendor's own page, not from a live read.","unit":"MB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://frog.mikr.us/","read_on":"2026-10-24","notes":"the shape is reported, not documented: the live page was refused. See evidence for the exact 403 body"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: the unit is a container, not an object"},"retention":{"stated":"Reported from the cached copy: 'Serwery, na które nikt nie logował się przez 3 miesiące, są usuwane.' (servers nobody has logged into for 3 months are deleted).","days":90,"source_url":"https://frog.mikr.us/","notes":"reported, because the live origin refused the read"},"egress":{"terms":"not stated on the cached page and not readable live","metered":false,"free_allowance":"unstated","source_url":"https://frog.mikr.us/"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"PLN 35 (about EUR 8) a year for 384 MB and 5 GB on the paid ladder makes this the cheapest documented European VPS floor the free FROG tier is the same operator's loss leader into it.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"256 MB RAM and 3 GB disk on the free FROG container","source":"https://frog.mikr.us/"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"deleted after 3 months with no login","source":"https://frog.mikr.us/"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"a one-off payment of at least PLN 5 is required as an identity check before the free server is activated","source":"https://frog.mikr.us/"}],"limits_note":"The server is deleted after three months without a login, and the service states it is intended for users in Poland, so the free unit survives only with a recurring manual login.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"the free server is not free of payment: a one-off minimum PLN 5 transfer is the identity gate, and on top of it the service refuses non-Polish users outright","identity_cost":{"kind":"national-id","detail":"Two gates. First, the offer is limited to Poland: the live origin served a block page reading 'The FROG service is intended for Polish users only. Even if you use a VPN, if we detect that you are not Polish, you will lose your account.' Second, the cached vendor page states a one-off payment of at least PLN 5 is required as identity verification. No card is stored, but the payment is a bank transfer and the account is conditional on being in Poland.","country":"Poland"},"reliability_note":"no reliability event observed; the origin refused every read from outside Poland with HTTP 403 on 2026-10-24, which is the geo gate working as documented","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://frog.mikr.us/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Projekt FROG to darmowa oferta malych (malutkich!) serwerow VPS', 'RAM: 256MB', 'Dysk: 3GB', 'System: Alpine Linux', 'Technologia: LXC', 'wymagaja wplaty dowolnej kwoty (minimum 5zl) w ramach weryfikacji tozsamosci uzytkownika. Jest to oplata jednorazowa', 'Mozesz posiadac tylko JEDEN darmowy serwer', 'Serwery, na ktore nikt nie logowal sie przez 3 miesiace, sa usuwane', quoted"},{"url":"https://frog.mikr.us/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Usluga przeznaczona jest dla uzytkownikow z POLSKI' and 'Zainteresowanych z Azji prosimy o nieaktywowanie konta', quoted; the page returned upstream_status 403 to the extractor but the body was served through the provider route, so this is documented, not measured"},{"url":"https://mikr.us/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the paid ladder beside the free row: 'Mikrus 1.0' 384 MB / 5 GB at '35 zl brutto' per year, rising to 'Mikrus 4.2PRO' 16 GB / 160 GB at '790 zl brutto' per year, and the FROG row is priced '0 zl' with 'Jednorazowa oplata aktywacyjna', quoted"},{"url":"https://frog.mikr.us/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"live origin, HTTP 403, body quoted in full: '<h1>The FROG service is intended for Polish users only. Even if you use a VPN, if we detect that you are not Polish, you will lose your account. Look for another hosting provider.</h1>'"},{"url":"https://frog.mikr.us/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"cached copy of the vendor page: 'RAM: 256MB', 'Dysk: 3GB', 'System: Alpine Linux', 'Technologia: LXC', 'Serwery są darmowe, ale wymagają wpłaty dowolnej kwoty (minimum 5zł) w ramach weryfikacji tożsamości użytkownika.'"},{"url":"https://mikr.us/?landing=","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the paid sibling's price table lists 'FROG Darmowy Jednorazowa opłata aktywacyjna 256 MB 3 GB Finlandia 0 zł'"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-24T06:17:00.000Z","notes":"Not in dossier/compute before this record. Recorded as fails-identity rather than skipped because the vendor publishes a working free LXC offer that reads as available on every list that aggregates it, and the block is invisible to those lists. The 403 body is the finding: this is a case where an aggregator's snippet shows a live offer and the origin refuses the client. What could not be established: the traffic allowance, the exact IPv6/IPv4 arrangement, and whether the PLN 5 is refunded. What would settle them: a read from a Polish address.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"regional-vps","free_tier_kind":"perpetual","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":0.25,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}},"shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":0.25,"disk_gib":3,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"free","term":"perpetual, with a one-off activation payment","m10h_usd":0,"m24h_usd":0,"price_arithmetic":"PLN 0 per the vendor's own price table, plus a one-off minimum PLN 5 activation transfer described as identity verification","free_tier_kind":"perpetual","network_out":{"allow_outbound":true,"allow_inbound_listen":null,"ports":"not stated","static_ip":null,"ipv6":null,"per_session_bytes":null},"session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":null,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"deleted after 3 months without a login"},"geo_restriction":"Poland only, enforced: live origin returns HTTP 403 to a non-Polish reader"},"tier":"FROG (free)","confidence_note":"the shape, the retention clock and the PLN 5 gate come from the search index's cached copy of the vendor's own page; the live origin served only a Polish-only block page, so none of it was read first-hand. The geo restriction itself is documented, from the live 403 body"},"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":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":256,"unit":"MB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":256,"unit":"MB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"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:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}