FreeMach

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FreeMach Computefails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated
FreeMach — community free VPS (LES/HT/LET members, 3-month account age) Storagefails: quotaemailno cardR

FreeMach Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

freemach.rowe.sh/ · VPS · compute/freemach-free · JSON · compare

Free tier	Quoted: 'FreeMach™ is a community-powered project that provides free VPS hosting to qualifying applicants of the LowEndSpirit, HostedTalk, and LowEndTalk communities'. Current allocation: 'EU1 (AlphaVPS, Bulgaria): 10/10 VMs Allocated (0 slots free)' and 'US1 (VirMach, New York): 10/10 VMs Allocated (0 slots free)'. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	quoted: '10/10 VMs Allocated (0 slots free)' on both hosts, so there is no free slot to allocate today
Retention	not published as a clock; the project states applicants are 'Expected to have a purpose in mind to use the service (no idlers)'
Egress	quoted: '1TB @ 1 Gbps' per VM, with '1 IPv4' free_allowance: 1 TB
Identity	institution no card, but a reputation gate: quoted 'Must be an active user of LowEndSpirit, HostedTalk, and/or LowEndTalk communities'; 'LES/HT/LET account must be at least 3 months old at time of application'; 'Must pass a FraudRecord check (Do not use a proxy to submit the application)'. The application is a Google Form.
Limits	volume-quota 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD on EU1; 2 vCPU, 3 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD on US1 source write-gated a forum account at least 3 months old, a FraudRecord check, and a human review of the application source
Binding	write-gated Capacity is the first wall and reputation is the second: both hosts report 0 of 10 slots free, and the application requires a three-month-old forum account that passes a FraudRecord check.
Interface	ssh, rest a KVM virtual machine with root, one IPv4, on a host donated by AlphaVPS in Sofia or VirMach in New York
Tooling	any SSH client once allocated
Composes with	Nothing until a slot frees: both hosts are at 10 of 10.
Reliability	No reliability event observed. The project publishes a status link to a HetrixTools monitor.
Notes	A real project with real sponsors and a real specification, recorded because it is the clearest illustration of why the free-VPS forum layer is not a route for a user: every slot is full, and the door is a three-month-old forum account plus a fraud check. The corpus already carries freevps.org and microlxc on the same reputation model. Nothing here is a defect in the project; it is simply not available to a person who is not already in that community.
Evidence rung	documented The allocation count, the specification and the eligibility rules are quoted from the project's own page read today. The page is small and the project is one person's, so this is documented about the offer and about the current full capacity.
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[0].value` limit:volume-quota 2.0 GB

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-24	freemach.rowe.sh/	quoted: 'EU1 (AlphaVPS, Bulgaria): 10/10 VMs Allocated (0 slots free)', 'US1 (VirMach, New York): 10/10 VMs Allocated (0 slots free)'; 'LES/HT/LET account must be at least 3 months old at time of application'; 'Must pass a FraudRecord check'; specs '2 vCPU', '2GB RAM', '25GB SSD', '1TB @ 1 Gbps', '1 IPv4'

More fields (9)

{
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": 2,
  "ram_gib": 2,
  "disk_gib": 25,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null
 },
 "billing_model": "free",
 "term": "not published",
 "m10h_usd": 0,
 "m24h_usd": 0,
 "price_arithmetic": "no charge; the constraint is eligibility and capacity, not price",
 "free_tier_kind": "free-forever-with-quota",
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": true,
  "ports": "1 IPv4, 1 TB a month at 1 Gbps",
  "static_ip": true,
  "ipv6": false,
  "per_session_bytes": null
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "no clock published; 'no idlers' is the stated policy"
 }
}

FreeMach — community free VPS (LES/HT/LET members, 3-month account age) Storage

fails: quotaemailno cardR

freemach.rowe.sh/ · iaas · storage/freemach-community-free-vps · JSON · compare

Free tier	US1.KVM: 2 vCPU, 3 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD, 1 TB transfer. EU1.KVM: 2 vCPU, 2 GB, 25 GB SSD, 1 TB. Hosts are a VirMach Buffalo E3-1240v3 with 2x1TB HDD and an AlphaVPS Sofia dual-L5630. unit TB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	1 TB per VM at 1 Gbps — metered and small.
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	KVM root — SSH/SFTP/rsync.
Composes with	Hard-gated on community standing, not on payment: 'LES/HT/LET account must be at least 3 months old at time of application', 'Must pass a FraudRecord check (Do not use a proxy to submit the application)'. That check is a risk-scoring screen. A second account would need an aged forum identity and a clean risk-scoring record, which is the actual scarce resource.
Reliability	Sponsored capacity on other people's dedicated servers, 10 VMs per node. The risk-scoring screen means a closure follows the person across the low-end host ecosystem. That is the strongest usage-anomaly signal in the niche.
Notes	US1.KVM: 2 vCPU, 3 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD, 1 TB transfer. EU1.KVM: 2 vCPU, 2 GB, 25 GB SSD, 1 TB. Hosts are a VirMach Buffalo E3-1240v3 with 2x1TB HDD and an AlphaVPS Sofia dual-L5630.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	freemach.rowe.sh/	'Must be an active user of LowEndSpirit, HostedTalk, and/or LowEndTalk … at least 3 months old'; 'Must pass a FraudRecord check (Do not use a proxy to submit the application)'; '10/10 VMs Allocated (0 slots free)' on both nodes. The check the page names is a risk-scoring screen.

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "US1.KVM: 2 vCPU, 3 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD, 1 TB transfer. EU1.KVM: 2 vCPU, 2 GB, 25 GB SSD, 1 TB. Hosts are a VirMach Buffalo E3-1240v3 with 2x1TB HDD and an AlphaVPS Sofia dual-L5630.",
  "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