SoftShellWeb

softshellweb.com · Compute · 2 records · JSON

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SoftShellWeb Compute

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softshellweb.com/specials · LXC VPS · compute/softshellweb-lxc-ipv6-only · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: compute/softshellweb says paid-only, compute/softshellweb-lxc-ipv6-only says qualifies

Free tier	No free tier. The cheapest plan is USD 9.95 a year, described as 'Cheapest Los Angeles' and 'Works out to $0.83 / month'. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	The container persists while the annual term is paid. A 7-day money-back guarantee is stated; there is no published deletion schedule for non-payment.
Egress	750 GB a month at 10 Gbps on the 1 GB plan. The page states no throttle and no price after the allowance. free_allowance: 750 GB
Identity	email Self-service order with an email account and a $0 setup fee. The specials page read today states no card hold and does not list accepted payment methods, so the card, PayPal or crypto routes are not established.
Limits	volume-quota 750 GB a month of transfer on the 1 GB plan source per-ip-shaping no IPv4 at all on this plan; IPv4 is USD 24 a year extra, so any IPv4-only peer cannot reach it source
Binding	volume-quota 750 GB a month is the first hard number; the missing IPv4 is a reachability limit rather than a quota, and it fails on the first IPv4-only peer instead.
Interface	ssh Root SSH into an LXC container; OS chosen at checkout from Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux or Rocky.
Tooling	Any SSH client. LXC shares the host kernel, so no custom kernel and no wireguard module of your own.
Composes with	A 1 GB container with a routed /64 and 750 GB a month for USD 9.95 a year: an IPv6 WireGuard endpoint, a status page or a monitoring probe from a US West Coast address.
Reliability	LXC containers share the host kernel; the vendor says so plainly and prices accordingly.
Notes	The vendor advertises the IPv6-only line as suitable for 'tunnel endpoints' and 'monitoring probes', which is use. A WireGuard listener on a public port therefore has a stated route over IPv6; an IPv4 peer needs the USD 24/yr address. Not measured: whether the host kernel exposes the wireguard module to the container.
Evidence rung	documented Price, monthly equivalent, shape, traffic, IPv6 block, IPv4 surcharge and the annual billing term are all quoted from the vendor's specials page read today.
Checked	2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Parsed numbers	`$.extras.m10h_usd` price USD0.83 / month `$.extras.m24h_usd` price USD0.83 / month `$.limits[0].value` limit:volume-quota 750.0 GB / month

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-24	softshellweb.com/specials	quoted: 'LXC IPv6 Only', '1 GB · 1 core · 15 GB NVMe', '$9.95/year', 'Works out to $0.83 / month'
2026-10-24	softshellweb.com/specials	quoted: '750 GB @ 10 Gbps', '/64 IPv6 subnet', 'No IPv4 - add one for $24/yr'
2026-10-24	softshellweb.com/specials	quoted: '$0 setup fee The annual price is the total due today.' and 'Billed once a year No monthly invoices to keep track of.'
2026-10-24	softshellweb.com/specials	quoted: 'These are Linux containers (LXC), not full virtual machines. A container runs directly on the host's Linux kernel'

More fields (12)

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 "billing_model": "annual",
 "term": "12 months",
 "m24h_usd": 0.83,
 "m10h_usd": 0.83,
 "price_arithmetic": "USD 9.95 a year / 12 = USD 0.8292 a month, which the vendor itself prints as '$0.83 / month'. Out of pocket at order: USD 9.95.",
 "renewal_usd": null,
 "first_payment_usd": 9.95,
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": true,
  "ports": "all, over IPv6 only",
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 "payment_methods": "not established on the page read",
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  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "none; it is a container"
 },
 "payment_rails": "PayPal, credit and debit cards, crypto via NOWPayments, Alipay, iDeal, UPI"
}

Unknown or withheld values (1)

$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable

SoftShellWeb Compute

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softshellweb.com/vps-hosting · cloud VM · compute/softshellweb · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: compute/softshellweb says paid-only, compute/softshellweb-lxc-ipv6-only says qualifies

Free tier	USD 5.00/month in Amsterdam: 1 core, 1 GB ECC RAM, 20 GB SSD, 1,000 GB at 1 Gbps, full root, KVM. The Los Angeles Ryzen entry is USD 9.00 with 2 GB DDR5, 50 GB NVMe and 5 TB at 10 Gbps. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	1,000 GB per month on the Amsterdam entry plan; overage is not priced on the page read free_allowance: 1,000 GB per month
Identity	email (placeholder) not stated
Limits	volume-quota 1,000 GB a month in Amsterdam; the 1 Gbps port exhausts that allowance in about three hours of saturation, so the byte cap bites long before the port source 1,000 GB a month in Amsterdam; the 1 Gbps port exhausts that allowance in about three hours of saturation, so the byte cap bites long before the port
Binding	volume-quota 1,000 GB a month in Amsterdam; the 1 Gbps port exhausts that allowance in about three hours of saturation, so the byte cap bites long before the port
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	Virtualizor panel with custom ISO upload and an HTML5 console, documented in the FAQ; no API mentioned
Composes with	the LA Ryzen row at USD 9 gives 5 TB on a 10 Gbps port, which is the better bytes-per-dollar plan here even though it is not the cheapest
Reliability	no reliability event observed the FAQ states TCP and UDP ports 17, 19, 1900 and UDP 53413 and 11211 are permanently blocked and SMTP 25 is blocked by default pending a ticket
Notes	The tracker's USD 9.95/year Los Angeles plan was not on either vendor page read; the cheapest plan found on the vendor's own pages is USD 5.00/month in Amsterdam, and that is the record. The Amsterdam page also says 'Starting at only EUR 3.50 per month' in prose against a table that starts at USD 5.00, so the page carries two currencies and neither was converted. Not in dossier/compute. would-settle: whether the USD 9.95 annual plan still exists on the order form.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:volume-quota 1000.0 GB / month

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	softshellweb.com/vps-hosting	Amsterdam table, first row: '1 Core, 1 GB ECC, 20 GB SSD, 1000 GB @ 1 Gbps, $5.00, Create', quoted from the pricing table
2026-10-22	softshellweb.com/vps-hosting-usa	Los Angeles table, first row: '1 Core, 2 GB DDR5, 50 GB NVMe, 5 TB @ 10 Gbps, $9.00'; the 16-core 64 GB row is USD 149.00
2026-10-22	vpspricetracker.com/provider/SoftShellWeb/vps	tracker row 'USD 0.83 / month, yearly Service, 1 Intel Cores (shared), 1,024 MB RAM, 15 GB NVMe, 750 GB/month bandwidth, 10 Gbps port speed, Los Angeles', with 'starting at $9.95 per year'

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.identity_cost.detail not-stated
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable