envs.net

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Free tier	a shell account on a Debian 13 host with 200 processes or threads, 1024 MB soft and 1536 MB hard storage, 1 GiB of /tmp, and a 250 MB mailbox unit MB; metered on stored-bytes; the site states 'will always be free to use'; no price appears
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	files in /tmp are temporary and may be removed after 10 days of inactivity; home storage has no published expiry
Egress	not published on the pages read
Identity	email the form asks for a username, an email address and confirmation, a sentence on what interests you, and an OpenSSH public key, plus an age declaration of at least 16. No card and no phone. Approval is manual: 'fill out this form and i'll get back to you with your account informations.'
Limits	request-rate 200 processes/threads at a time source volume-quota 1024 MB soft, 1536 MB hard on home storage; 1 GiB /tmp with 100,000 inodes source volume-quota 250 MB mailbox source No idle-expiry policy appears on the terms, privacy or code-of-conduct pages, so the first thing that binds is the 200-process cap and the 1.5 GiB home, not the clock; an absence of a stated reaper is recorded as absence, not as a promise.
Binding	request-rate 200 processes is generous for scripts and fatal for anything that forks per connection; the 1.5 GB disk binds second.
Interface	ssh inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	A shell with mosh and a mailbox is the cheapest place to hold a key, a bouncer or a cron that does not need a public port; the operator also runs a DoH resolver, a ntfy instance and a gitea on the same account, which is a free notification path for a job running elsewhere.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The best-documented small shell: the process ceiling is published, which is unusual. No public port allowance is stated, so it is a client-side host, not a server. What would settle that: a probe attempting a listen on a high port.
Evidence rung	documented quota and process limits quoted from the site's own help page; signup fields from the form itself, both read today.
Checked	2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Parsed numbers	`$.extras.m10h_usd` price USD0.0 / month `$.extras.m24h_usd` price USD0.0 / month `$.limits[1].value` limit:volume-quota 1024.0 MB `$.limits[2].value` limit:volume-quota 250.0 MB

Evidence (8)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	envs.net/	'envs.net is a minimalist, non-commercial shared linux system and will always be free to use', quoted; system info reports Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
2026-10-22	help.envs.net/	'terminal connection over ssh and mosh', '200 process/threads at a time', 'soft 1024mb / hard 1536mb limit on storage', 'e-mail (250mb mailbox storage)', quoted
2026-10-22	envs.net/signup/	signup asks for a username, an email address, a statement of interest, an optional SSH public key and an age declaration of 16 or over; no card and no phone field, quoted
2026-10-22	envs.net/	not published
2026-10-22	envs.net/users/	'online: 6 \| total: 1567', quoted, so the host is live with a real population rather than a placeholder
2026-10-24	help.envs.net/	quoted: '200 process/threads at a time', 'soft 1024mb / hard 1536mb limit on storage', '1 GiB soft / hard limit on temporary /tmp storage (100,000 inodes)', 'e-mail (250mb mailbox storage)'
2026-10-24	envs.net/signup/	quoted: 'desired username', 'e-mail for account informations', 'openssh public key', 'i am at least 16 years old.'
2026-10-24	envs.net/	quoted: 'envs.net is a minimalist, non-commercial shared linux system and will always be free to use.'

More fields (11)

{
 "wave2": {
  "class": "pubnix-shell",
  "free_tier_kind": "perpetual",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": 0,
   "disk_mib_soft": 1024,
   "disk_mib_hard": 1536
  }
 },
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": null,
  "ram_gib": null,
  "disk_gib": 1.5,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null
 },
 "shape_note": "1536 MB hard quota stated by the vendor; no RAM or vCPU published",
 "billing_model": "free",
 "term": "indefinite",
 "m10h_usd": 0.0,
 "m24h_usd": 0.0,
 "price_arithmetic": "no charge",
 "free_tier_kind": "always-free",
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": null,
  "ports": "not published",
  "static_ip": null,
  "ipv6": null,
  "per_session_bytes": null
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "the cap is concurrent processes, not session time"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (5)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.evidence[3].proved withheld
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.tooling not-stated