Fosshost

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Fosshost Compute

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Free tier	Free VPS, web hosting, mirror and AArch64 compute for about 250 open source projects including GNOME, Armbian, Debian and FSFE. Applications were suspended in September 2022 and the service reached end of life in December 2022. unit none; metered on wall-clock; none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	anonymous not published
Binding	none The provider no longer exists, so nothing binds; the failure mode was organisational, with the chief executive unreachable and co-location unpaid.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Nothing. Recorded so the next session does not apply.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The generalisable lesson is the failure mode, not the provider: a free VPS programme run by a volunteer nonprofit with one person holding the bank account died within months, and about 250 projects had to migrate. That is the reliability note to attach to any nonprofit free-compute offer, including the ones still running.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/open-source-softwar	report dated 2022-12-04 of the shutdown, the unreachable chief executive, and users told to back up and migrate
2026-10-22	news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33848529	volunteer statement that co-location costs could not be paid because only the chief executive had bank access, so servers would go offline
2026-10-22	github.com/fosshostorg/fosshost.org/blob/main/src/posts/susp	the organisation's own post dated 2022-09-07 announcing that applications were suspended

More fields (1)

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 }
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Unknown or withheld values (10)