{"rid":"egress/xserver-vps-free","card":{"rid":"egress/xserver-vps-free","eid":"xserver","topic":"egress","slug":"xserver-vps-free","provider":"XServer VPS free plan","url":"https://vps.xserver.ne.jp/free.php","domain":"xserver.ne.jp","category":"vps (hosted, Japan)","tier":"free","verdict":"dead","vorder":7,"grp":"dead","confidence":"documented","binding":"write-gated","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"ssh,cli,rest","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-23","stale_on":"2026-11-22","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":5.0497,"summary":"[translated] 'A completely free VPS service. There is no initial cost and no monthly payment, so you can use a domestic VPS casually.' The plan table lists a...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":2},"record":{"topic":"egress","slug":"xserver-vps-free","provider":"XServer VPS free plan","url":"https://vps.xserver.ne.jp/free.php","category":"vps (hosted, Japan)","tier":"free","free_tier":{"stated":"[translated] 'A completely free VPS service. There is no initial cost and no monthly payment, so you can use a domestic VPS casually.' The plan table lists a 2 GB and a 4 GB free VPS at 0 yen per month.","unit":"unlimited","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://vps.xserver.ne.jp/free.php","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":""},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://vps.xserver.ne.jp/free.php","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://vps.xserver.ne.jp/free.php","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"[translated] 0 yen per month for the 2 GB and 4 GB plans. No traffic allowance is stated on the page. The contract-renewal row says 'manual renewal (every 1 day)' for the free plans against 'automatic renewal' for the paid ones.; ingress: tcp+udp","metered":false,"free_allowance":"none published","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://vps.xserver.ne.jp/free.php"},"interface":["ssh","cli","rest"],"interface_detail":"[translated] 50+ OS and application images install automatically when the order completes; the panel restarts and reinstalls the guest.","tooling":"wg-quick inside the guest; SSH; the panel installs an OS or app image at order time","chaining":"If it reopens: a free Japanese root guest is the endpoint for everything else in this topic, and the daily renewal is the one job it needs.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"[translated] 'manual renewal (every 1 day)' on the free plans; the paid plans renew automatically","source":"https://vps.xserver.ne.jp/free.php"}],"limits_note":"","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"A control-panel action every day stands between the client and the server surviving. That is a manual act, not a byte count, so it binds before any volume does. It is also moot today: the signup button for the free plans reads 'not accepting applications'.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"[translated] 'A credit card must be registered to use this service.'","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"Daily manual renewal with deletion on a missed day; the page's own footnote says an automatic detection system may throttle guests that load the host excessively.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The 0 yen price, the card requirement, the daily manual renewal and the closed signup are all on the vendor page read on 2026-10-23. What no page establishes is whether a free guest gets a public IPv4; a probe would. Applications may reopen, which would make this the strongest Japanese free host.","evidence":[{"url":"https://vps.xserver.ne.jp/free.php","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"[translated] 'A completely free VPS service. There is no initial cost and no monthly payment.' Free plans are 2 GB and 4 GB at 0 yen per month."},{"url":"https://vps.xserver.ne.jp/free.php","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"[translated] 'A credit card must be registered to use this service.'"},{"url":"https://vps.xserver.ne.jp/free.php","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"[translated] The free plans' contract-renewal row reads 'manual renewal (every 1 day)'; the paid plans read 'automatic renewal'. The free-plan signup button reads 'not accepting applications'."}],"verdict":"dead","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"JPY 0 per month on the free plan; paid plans from JPY 792 per month","notes":"Read carefully because it looked like the answer: a Japanese 0-yen VPS with a root guest would pass the ingress test outright. Two facts kill it. The signup is closed ('not accepting applications'). And the renewal row means the server is deleted unless a human clicks a renewal every day, which no unattended workload survives. Country: Japan. The free plan carries 50 GB of disk standard with a 500 GB option per the page footnotes.","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"A KVM guest with root and a choice of 50+ OS images including Debian 12/13 and Ubuntu 22.04/24.04/26.04, so wg-quick runs in the guest. No configuration is issued by the vendor.","ingress":"tcp+udp","volume_tib_month":null,"volume_stated":"[translated] 0 yen per month for the 2 GB and 4 GB plans. No traffic allowance is stated on the page. The contract-renewal row says 'manual renewal (every 1 day)' for the free plans against 'automatic renewal' for the paid ones.","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"A domestic Japanese guest address carries the traffic."}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":2,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":792,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"JPY","usd":5.0497,"fx_date":"2026-10-24","parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}