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- Free allowance
- A free shared Linux account on DigitalOcean with a 1 GB soft storage limit
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedsignups are closed; a new account can only join a waitlist
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| 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 |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap 1 GB soft limit per account source
- retention-clamped accounts idle for 5 years are archived source
- write-gated (binding) signups are closed; a new account can only join a waitlist source
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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| Egress | not published |
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| Retention | accounts with no login in 5 years are archived and can be restored on request (1825 days) |
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| Interface | ssh SSH on port 22; IRC and Gemini |
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| Tooling | SSH, screen or tmux, cron |
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| Composes with | a very long retention clock on a small account |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| 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. |
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| Evidence note | 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 |
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| Parsed numbers | - price USD 0 10 hours a day / month
- price USD 0 / month
- has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 1 GB
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 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/ | 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 |
| 2026-11-03 | ctrl-c.club/ | access is by SSH; no REST API or CLI is stated |
More fields 10
| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": 1,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
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| billing model | flat-pool |
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| granularity | {"min_billed_s": null,"rounding_s": null} |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none stated"} |
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| keep rate | {"value": 0.0,"basis": "a free account costs nothing","source": "https://ctrl-c.club/"} |
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| persistent storage | {"included_gib": 1,"price_gib_month": "not offered","durability": "home directory","survives_stop": true,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "5 years without a login"} |
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| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": null,"ports": "IRC 6667 and Gemini outbound","static_ip": false,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": null} |
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| free tier kind | allowance |
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| m10h usd | 0.0 |
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| m24h usd | 0.0 |
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Unknown values 3
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
Corrections
- 2026-10-22 Corrected on 2026-10-22: compute/ctrl-c-club, compute/tilde-zone