EFN

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EFN Compute

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Free tier	A free UNIX shell across Linux, BSD and Solaris hosts with a dated 60-day inactivity disable: quoted 'any shell account that has not been logged into for 60 consecutive days will be automatically disabled', with a disk quota of 500 MB, a 256 MB memory limit, 3 background processes and a listenable TCP/UDP port. unit none; metered on wall-clock; perpetual
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	The 60-day login clock is the only reaper in this set with a published date on it, so a monthly login defeats it and nothing else does; the account is disabled rather than deleted and reactivation is 'subject to availability'.
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	retention-clamped The 60-day login clock is the only reaper in this set with a published date on it, so a monthly login defeats it and nothing else does; the account is disabled rather than deleted and reactivation is 'subject to availability'. source The 60-day login clock is the only reaper in this set with a published date on it, so a monthly login defeats it and nothing else does; the account is disabled rather than deleted and reactivation is 'subject to availability'.
Binding	retention-clamped The 60-day login clock is the only reaper in this set with a published date on it, so a monthly login defeats it and nothing else does; the account is disabled rather than deleted and reactivation is 'subject to availability'.
Interface	ssh inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	500 MB with three background processes and a listenable port is the cheapest always-on place for an IRC bouncer or a small TCP daemon, and the port is the part most pubnixes withhold.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The 60-day policy is dated 2026-10-06, which is 16 days before this read, so this is a reaper that was introduced recently and is the single most useful thing in the record. The FAQ states registration is blocked in some countries; Two open questions. One, whether 'login' means an interactive SSH session or any authentication, which decides whether a cron inside the host counts. Two, whether the TCP port is reachable from outside, because the services page lists it as a feature but no page states an inbound firewall rule. The host did not answer on 22 from this vantage, which is a routing fact and not a verdict.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	shells.efn.lt/start	'2026.10.06 - Important Update: Inactive Accounts Will Be Disabled After 60 Days', 'any shell account that has not been logged into for 60 consecutive days will be automatically disabled', and the VIP exception: 'Users who donate will receive VIP status and be added to the exception list', quoted
2026-10-22	shells.efn.lt/services	the free tier table: 'Disk Quota 500 MB', 'Memory limit 256 MB', 'Background Processes 3', 'Simultaneous Processes 20', 'Listen TCP/UDP port (custom server)' checked, 'Monthly Fee $0.00', quoted
2026-10-22	shells.efn.lt/services	not published
2026-10-22	shells.efn.lt/start	'2026.07.28 - Registration restrictions in selected regions' because of 'abuse, automated activity, and infrastructure load', quoted
2026-10-22	shells.efn.lt/start	TCP connect timed out at 32376 ms from this host; recorded as no TCP answer from this host and not as a dead provider [receipt: ssh://shells.efn.lt:22]

More fields (1)

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  "free_tier_kind": "perpetual",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": 0.25,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": 0,
   "disk_mib": 500
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.evidence[2].proved withheld
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.tooling not-stated