FOSSVPS / ST-Hosting

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FOSSVPS / ST-Hosting — free VPS for open-source developers (Frankfurt, Buffalo, LA, Chisinau) Storage

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Free tier	Free VPSs on donated hardware; the Frankfurt node is an AMD EPYC 7402P, 128 GiB RAM, 1 TB SSD donated by ST-Hosting for at least two years. Per-VM disk is small (the node is large, the slices are not). unit TB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Node-level 1 Gbps; per-VM transfer not published. Unverified.
Identity	email email
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	sftp, rsync, ssh sftp
Tooling	Root VPS — SSH/SFTP/rsync.
Composes with	Not stackable: 'Free and open source software developers only. White hat only.
Reliability	Donated capacity with published sunset dates and a public status page. Structurally temporary even when the VM is free.
Notes	Free VPSs on donated hardware; the Frankfurt node is an AMD EPYC 7402P, 128 GiB RAM, 1 TB SSD donated by ST-Hosting for at least two years. Per-VM disk is small (the node is large, the slices are not).
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	lowendspirit.com/discussion/10506/st-hosting-free-vps	'an AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core Processor with 128GiB RAM and 1TB SSD'; 'Free and open source software developers only … No excessive high cpu, disk or bandwidth'; node end dates to 2026/2027
2026-10-21	fossvps.org/	probe: GET -> HTTP 200

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Free VPSs on donated hardware; the Frankfurt node is an AMD EPYC 7402P, 128 GiB RAM, 1 TB SSD donated by ST-Hosting for at least two years. Per-VM disk is small (the node is large, the slices are not).",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted