ctrl-c.club
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ctrl-c.club Compute
caveatemailno cardDwrite-gated
| Free tier | a free shared Linux account on DigitalOcean with a 1 GB soft storage limit unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes; about 825 users; IRC on 6667 and Gemini |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable |
| Retention | accounts with no login in 5 years are archived and can be restored on request (1825 days) |
| Egress | not published |
| Identity | email a signup request; no card. Signups are CLOSED and waitlist only, quoted from signup.ctrl-c.club: 'Signups are closed for now! ... We're pausing signups to work on some scaling issues. You can still submit a signup to get on a waitlist.' A new person can join a waitlist; only an existing member can reach the host today |
| Limits |
the 5-year archive is the gentlest retention clock found in this class, and it is not the constraint that binds a new reader. The signup is closed and waitlist only, so the gate fails before the quota is reached |
| Binding | write-gated the closed signup binds first: a new reader can only join a waitlist, so the 5-year archive clock never applies to them. The retention clock is the gentlest in the class and it is not reachable. |
| Interface | rest, cli SSH on port 22; IRC and Gemini |
| Tooling | SSH, screen or tmux, cron |
| Composes with | a very long retention clock on a small account |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The oldest OpenSSH in this set and the longest retention clock. 1 GB is not storage for a user, but it is a stable shell with a cron. The tier moved from T1 to T2 on review because T1 means no archival and this row archives at five years. |
| Evidence rung | documented reachability and the 5-year archive policy were both confirmed on 2026-10-22. The record is not measured because a probe proves the port answers and the 1 GB quota is a page claim, so the weakest field decides |
| Checked | 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21 |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence (4)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | probe:ctrl-c.club:22 | TCP connect succeeded in 0.32 s to 165.227.127.54 and read banner SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3ubuntu0.18 |
| 2026-10-22 | ctrl-c.club/ | 'we're archiving accounts that have not been logged into in 5 years or more', and an archived account can be restored on request |
| 2026-10-06 | signup.ctrl-c.club/ | 'Signups are closed for now! Thank you for your interest in Ctrl-C.club! We're pausing signups to work on some scaling issues. not re-fetched |
| 2026-10-06 | signup.ctrl-c.club/ | 'One gigabyte storage limit (this is not a hard limit: brief, occasional overages are not a problem.)' which is the soft limit the record quotes |
More fields (11)
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"note": "none stated"
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"basis": "a free account costs nothing",
"source": "https://ctrl-c.club/"
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"durability": "home directory",
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"free_tier_kind": "allowance",
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}Unknown or withheld values (4)
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Corrections
- 2026-10-22 Two seed corrections were reverted, and one of them put a closed service back on the table