- Free allowance
- A free KVM VPS for any public GitHub repository with 1,000 or more stars and at least 90 days of age: quoted 'Eligible projects have a public GitHub repository with 1,000+ stars that is at least 90 days old (no forks or archived repos)', auto-approved once a verification code is in the README...
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe 1,000-star repository is a hard gate that a new developer cannot satisfy tonight, and the operator has raised the threshold from 100 stars in June 2025 and has suspended issued boxes without stated cause, so the first thing that...
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | A free KVM VPS for any public GitHub repository with 1,000 or more stars and at least 90 days of age: quoted 'Eligible projects have a public GitHub repository with 1,000+ stars that is at least 90 days old (no forks or archived repos)', auto-approved once a verification code is in the README, on a plan shaped 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB SSD with IPv4 and IPv6 in Houston. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; perpetual |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) The 1,000-star repository is a hard gate that a new developer cannot satisfy tonight, and the operator has raised the threshold from 100 stars in June 2025 and has suspended issued boxes without stated cause, so the first thing that fails is the eligibility check and the second is the operator's discretion afterwards. source
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| Identity | institution A DartNode account and a qualifying public repository. The offer page states the account gate: 'Please log in or register to apply.' The registration form asks for a first name, a last name, an email address and a password, with Google and Discord sign-up offered, and no phone, card, country or ID-document field. The institution gate is the eligibility rule: 'Eligible projects have a public GitHub repository with 1,000+ stars that is at least 90 days old (no forks or archived repos).' A verification code is then added to the repository README to prove maintenance. The human identity is an email address; what qualifies is the project. |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | A real KVM box with a routable IPv4 and no sleep is the only row in the OSS-sponsorship lane that gives a public address without NAT, which makes it the origin for a Cloudflare-fronted service rather than a jump host. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The page returned 403 through the probe with a Cloudflare challenge signature ('enable javascript and cookies to continue'), and the body came's provider route instead, so the shape is documented and not measured. This row is ranked low for a user despite being the largest shape, because 1,000 stars is not obtainable tonight. The published rule is automatic, which is the interesting part: the gate is reputation measured in stars rather than a human reviewer, so the failure is a number and not a person. Two things to settle. One, whether the 1,000-star floor is still 1,000 today, since the only first-party text is a page that a challenge wall hides from a plain fetch. Two, whether suspension without cause is systematic or was a single event; the Chinese forum reports one case and the sponsor wall lists 1,201 supported projects, which is not a mass-suspension pattern. |
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