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A separate free host in the same German search results (mcfreehost) states a 15-minute sleep, but that is a different provider and is not evidence about this one."},"egress":{"terms":"not published: no traffic allowance appears on the German home page, the Minecraft page or the Discord-bot page read","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"source_url":"https://coalbyte.com/de/discord-bot-hosting"},"interface":["ftp","rest"],"interface_detail":"a panel with FTP access, a live console and 1-click installers for Spigot, Paper, Forge, Discord.js, Discord.py, Java JDA and Go","tooling":"FTP and the vendor panel; no SSH and no root stated","chaining":"A game server or a Discord bot, which is what the offer is for. It is a narrow host: nothing on the pages read suggests a general-purpose machine.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"3 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 8 GB storage on the game-server tier; 1024 MB RAM, 5 GB NVMe on the bot tier","source":"https://coalbyte.com/de"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"one free server slot per account","source":"https://coalbyte.com/de"}],"binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"The free slot is guaranteed per account and there is one of them, so the second project is the wall rather than any resource inside the first.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"no card: quoted 'Keine Kreditkarte nötig' and 'No credit card required'.","country":null},"reliability_note":"No reliability event observed. The imprint states the entity is not yet a registered company, which is a fact about the seller and not about uptime.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The free allocation, the no-card statement and the one-slot rule are quoted from the vendor's own pages read. Egress and retention are unpublished. The entity disclosure is quoted from the imprint and is the reason the verdict is a caveat rather than a rejection.","evidence":[{"url":"https://coalbyte.com/de","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: '3 GB Dedizierter RAM', '1 vCPU & 8 GB', '100% Dauerhaft kostenlos', 'Keine Kreditkarte nötig', 'Jeder Benutzer erhält bei der Registrierung garantiert 1 komplett kostenlosen Server-Slot'"},{"url":"https://coalbyte.com/de/discord-bot-hosting","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: '0€ / Forever Free', 'NO CREDIT CARD', '1024 MB RAM· 1 vCPU Dedicated', '1.1 GB / 5 GB NVMe', 'Auto-Restart Watchdog'"},{"url":"https://coalbyte.com/de/imprint","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Bezeichnung: Robert - CoalByte Cloud'; 'Geplante Rechtsform: S.C. CoalByte Cloud S.R.L.'; 'Unabhängiges Technologieprojekt in der Entwicklungs- und Machbarkeitsvalidierungsphase. Die formelle Eintragung als Handelsgesellschaft erfolgt mit Erreichen der operativen Tragfähigkeit der Plattform.'; 'Stadt: Bacău', 'Land: Rumänien'"},{"url":"https://coalbyte.com/de/free-minecraft-hosting","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: '100% kostenloses 24/7 Minecraft Server Hosting ohne Kreditkarte'; '3 GB dedizierter RAM, 1 vCPU Ryzen 4.5+ GHz, 20.0 TPS'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-24T04:12:03.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"The allocation is the largest of any no-card row, and the imprint is unusually honest about the seller: it states in its own words that the company is a 'planned' S.R.L. that will be registered 'when the platform reaches operational viability'. Two further defects: the two product pages give different free allocations (3 GB with 8 GB of storage on the game tier, 1024 MB with 5 GB NVMe on the bot tier), and no page states a traffic allowance or a sleep rule. 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