PrivateBin public instance network

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PrivateBin public instance network Storage

fails: quotaanonymousno cardR

privatebin.info/directory/ · anonymous-dump · storage/privatebin-public-instance-network · JSON · compare

Free tier	10 MB per document by default (sizelimit = 10000000 in upstream conf.sample.php); ~30+ listed public instances, some with file upload enabled. No account, no quota. unit unlimited; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	free, direct from each instance; most are Cloudflare-proxied (the directory lists CSP/Observatory ratings and uptime).
Identity	anonymous derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: 30+ listed public instances, some with file upload enabled. No account, no quota. Instances are volunteer-run with visible uptime as low as 47-49% in the directory, so shard redundancy is
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	Encrypted JSON POST to the instance root with X-Requested-With: JSONHttpRequest; official JS client plus community CLIs. github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin (8690 stars). Instances are independently operated.
Composes with	N instances x 10 MB, and each instance is a separate operator with separate rate policy — so this is the one pastebin class where horizontal sharding across operators is native. Still only ~50 instances, so the aggregate is single-digit GB per round.
Reliability	Instances are volunteer-run with visible uptime as low as 47-49% in the directory, so shard redundancy is mandatory. Content is client-side encrypted, so the operator cannot dedupe or scan — and cannot recover your key either.
Notes	10 MB per document by default (sizelimit = 10000000 in upstream conf.sample.php); ~30+ listed public instances, some with file upload enabled. No account, no quota.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	privatebin.info/directory/	full instance table with version, file-upload flag, uptime (47%-100%), country; 2.1.0 is current
2026-10-21	raw.githubusercontent.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/master/cfg/c	'size limit per document or comment in bytes, defaults to 10 Megabytes / sizelimit = 10000000', 'fileupload = false'
2026-10-21	privatebin.net/?jsonld	probe: GET -> 200; https://bin.disroot.org/?jsonld -> 200; https://privatebin.cc/?jsonld -> 200 (three instances live)

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "10 MB per document by default (sizelimit = 10000000 in upstream conf.sample.php); ~30+ listed public instances, some with file upload enabled. No account, no quota.",
  "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