kts24

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FOSSVPS Computefails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated
scaleway perpetual 75 gb free object storage Storagefails: egressemail?card?R
kts24 — 1 tb storage vps free for 3 months (ceph beta) Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R

FOSSVPS Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

lowendspirit.com/discussion/10909/welcome-to-fossvps-and-goo · cloud VM · compute/fossvps · JSON · compare

Free tier	Batch 1 recorded FOSSVPS as a free 2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 64 GiB VPS gated on a human review of the applicant's open-source work. Quoted: 'Nodeseek is no longer an accepted forum for potential new clients. Clients with good non spammy reputations are only accepted from LET or LES. Registration via a VPN is blocked. Throw away email addresses are blocked. Registering from Russia, China or North Korea is blocked.' And on the abuse that caused it: '29th of May VPS's belonging to NodeSeek clients will be terminated with no records kept.' unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; sponsored-per-node
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated The gate is a reputation held on one of two named forums plus a country the operator will accept, so an applicant with no LET or LES history and a blocked country cannot enter at all, whatever their open-source work. source The gate is a reputation held on one of two named forums plus a country the operator will accept, so an applicant with no LET or LES history and a blocked country cannot enter at all, whatever their open-source work.
Binding	write-gated The gate is a reputation held on one of two named forums plus a country the operator will accept, so an applicant with no LET or LES history and a blocked country cannot enter at all, whatever their open-source work.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The per-node sponsor dates are the composition rule: a box on buc2 expired 2026-10-17 and a rebuild to another node destroys the data, so this is a place to run a workload and not a place to keep state.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Two corrections to batch 1. First, the identity cost is not merely an open-source track record: it is a reputation on one of two forums, which is an institutional standing for a user does not hold, so the verdict moves from qualifies-with-caveat to fails-identity. Second, the node list carries printed end dates and the nearest ones are in the past or within weeks: buc2 ended 2026-10-17 and buc1 ended 2026-04-17, which is why the 64 GiB machine is a recurring rebuild rather than an allocation. The country exclusions are recorded here as a reachability fact about who the operator serves, not as a judgement. qualifies-with-caveat via a07-regional. The one recorded is the better-evidenced.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (8)

date	source	what it proved
2026-05-27	lowendspirit.com/discussion/10909/welcome-to-fossvps-and-goo	quoted exclusions: NodeSeek clients terminated with no records kept; only LET or LES reputations accepted; VPN registration blocked; throwaway emails blocked; registration from Russia, China or North Korea blocked
2026-10-22	fossvps.org/	quoted in full: 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 64 GiB HDD, dual-stack NAT plus IPv6 /128 or /96, IPv4 very limited, and six locations with named sponsors and end dates ranging from 17th October 2026 to 1st February 2028
2026-10-22	fossvps.org/	'VPS: 2VCPU, 4GiB Ram and 64GiB HDD', 'Dual stack NAT + IPv6 /128 or /96 Location dependent', 'IPv4 very limited', 'OS: Debian, Ubuntu and Alpine', quoted, with six locations and end dates from 2026-12-21 to 2028-02-01
2026-10-22	lowendtalk.com/discussion/215848/fossvps-updates-free-server	'Absolutely FREE, no catches, no credits, no price bumps'; 'Free and open source software developers only'; 'Good reputation on this forum (no history, no server - sorry)'; 'Multiple registrations will get you banned'; 'Acceptance will give you 2 VCPU, 4GiB Ram, 64GiB disk with NAT + IPv6 /96', quoted
2026-10-22	lowendspirit.com/discussion/10570/important-buc1-hosteroid-s	quoted: 'node buc1 will terminate on 17th of April 2026 ... all data WILL BE DESTROYED'; a rebuild destroys all server data [re-read 2026-10-22]
2026-10-22	lowendtalk.com/discussion/217109/fossvps-mol1-server-current	a FOSSVPS node was suspended by its sponsor after abuse attributed to a NodeSeek member, and the operator states he will no longer accept NodeSeek clients [date precision: year precision] [re-read 2026-10-22]
2026-10-22	lowendtalk.com/discussion/212694/free-vps-for-open-source-de	the original offer thread, quoted: 'Absolutely FREE, no catches, no credits, no price bumps. Server locations and end dates are always on our website at https://fossvps.org' [re-read 2026-10-22]
2026-10-22	lowendtalk.com/discussion/214669/important-buc1-hosteroid-se	the pattern holding: a sponsor node announced termination on 17th April 2026, described as the end of a generous free donation period rather than a failure of the project [re-read 2026-10-22]

More fields (1)

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   "ram_gib": 4,
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  }
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}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated

scaleway perpetual 75 gb free object storage Storage

fails: egressemail?card?R

lowendspirit.com/discussion/6958/scaleway-the-end-of-the-fre · rejected-provider · storage/scaleway-perpetual-75-gb-free-object-storage · JSON · compare

Free tier	Removed December 2023; only the 75 GB/month free egress survived. The replacement is a one-shot 750 GB / 90-day trial. A free-for-dev PR was merged removing Scaleway for exactly this reason. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Removed December 2023; only the 75 GB/month free egress survived. The replacement is a one-shot 750 GB / 90-day trial. A free-for-dev PR was merged removing Scaleway for exactly this reason.
Notes	Removed December 2023; only the 75 GB/month free egress survived. The replacement is a one-shot 750 GB / 90-day trial. A free-for-dev PR was merged removing Scaleway for exactly this reason.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	lowendspirit.com/discussion/6958/scaleway-the-end-of-the-fre	Removed December 2023 only the 75 GB/month free egress survived. The replacement is a one-shot 750 GB / 90-day trial. A free-for-dev PR was merged removing Scaleway for exactly this reason.

More fields (1)

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  "failure_class": "egress",
  "why": "Removed December 2023; only the 75 GB/month free egress survived. The replacement is a one-shot 750 GB / 90-day trial. A free-for-dev PR was merged removing Scaleway for exactly this reason.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded

kts24 — 1 tb storage vps free for 3 months (ceph beta) Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

lowendspirit.com/discussion/3945/kts24-com-free-storage-vps- · rejected-provider · storage/kts24-1-tb-storage-vps-free-for-3-months · JSON · compare

Free tier	Exactly the shape we want (1 TB, 3 months, no card) but from March 2022 on a 'new ceph based storage vps series' that never launched publicly — the offer asked users to email a personal addr unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Exactly the shape we want (1 TB, 3 months, no card) but from March 2022 on a 'new ceph based storage vps series' that never launched publicly — the offer asked users to email a personal addr
Notes	Exactly the shape we want (1 TB, 3 months, no card) but from March 2022 on a 'new ceph based storage vps series' that never launched publicly — the offer asked users to email a personal addr
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	lowendspirit.com/discussion/3945/kts24-com-free-storage-vps-	Exactly the shape we want (1 TB, 3 months, no card) but from March 2022 on a 'new ceph based storage vps series' that never launched publicly — the offer asked users to email a personal addr

More fields (1)

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 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Exactly the shape we want (1 TB, 3 months, no card) but from March 2022 on a 'new ceph based storage vps series' that never launched publicly — the offer asked users to email a personal addr",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded