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Free allowance
Free VPS, web hosting, mirror and AArch64 compute for about 250 open source projects including GNOME, Armbian, Debian and FSFE.
Verdict
deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
Cost
no price stated
Identity
anonymousno card, no phone
Binding limit
noneno named constraint binds
Evidence
documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness
checked 2026-10-22checked 2026-10-22 (live)
Free tierFree VPS, web hosting, mirror and AArch64 compute for about 250 open source projects including GNOME, Armbian, Debian and FSFE. Applications were suspended in September 2022 and the service reached end of life in December 2022.
unit none; metered on wall-clock; none
Pricenone stated
Bindingnone The provider no longer exists, so nothing binds; the failure mode was organisational, with the chief executive unreachable and co-location unpaid.
Identityanonymous not published
Egressnot stated
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withpart of the text of Binding, above
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesThe generalisable lesson is the failure mode, not the provider: a free VPS programme run by a volunteer nonprofit with one person holding the bank account died within months, and about 250 projects had to migrate. That is the reliability note to attach to any nonprofit free-compute offer, including the ones still running.
Parsed numbers
  • has-free-tier 0
Evidence 3
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/open-source-softwarreport dated 2022-12-04 of the shutdown, the unreachable chief executive, and users told to back up and migrate
2026-10-22news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33848529volunteer statement that co-location costs could not be paid because only the chief executive had bank access, so servers would go offline
2026-10-22github.com/fosshostorg/fosshost.org/blob/main/src/posts/suspthe organisation's own post dated 2022-09-07 announcing that applications were suspended
More fields 1
facets{"class": "inverse-dead","free_tier_kind": "none","shape": null}
Unknown values 7
  • egress metered: egress metering was not published
  • egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • interface: the access interface was not established
  • per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
  • reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
  • retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
  • tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field