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- Free allowance
- A free UNIX shell across Linux, BSD and Solaris hosts with a dated 60-day inactivity disable: quoted 'any shell account that has not been logged into for 60 consecutive days will be automatically disabled', with a disk quota of 500 MB, a 256 MB memory limit, 3 background processes and a...
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedThe 60-day login clock is the only reaper in this set with a published date on it, so a monthly login defeats it and nothing else does; the account is disabled rather than deleted and reactivation is 'subject to availability'.
- Evidence
- documented8 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 UNIX shell across Linux, BSD and Solaris hosts with a dated 60-day inactivity disable: quoted 'any shell account that has not been logged into for 60 consecutive days will be automatically disabled', with a disk quota of 500 MB, a 256 MB memory limit, 3 background processes and a listenable TCP/UDP port. unit none; metered on wall-clock; perpetual |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) The 60-day login clock is the only reaper in this set with a published date on it, so a monthly login defeats it and nothing else does; the account is disabled rather than deleted and reactivation is 'subject to availability'. source
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Retention | The 60-day login clock is the only reaper in this set with a published date on it, so a monthly login defeats it and nothing else does; the account is disabled rather than deleted and reactivation is 'subject to availability'. |
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| Interface | ssh, sftp SSH shell account, with SFTP access on the free plan, documented at shells.efn.lt/services |
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| Tooling | any SSH or SFTP client; the services page names no specific client |
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| Composes with | 500 MB with three background processes and a listenable port is the cheapest always-on place for an IRC bouncer or a small TCP daemon, and the port is the part most pubnixes withhold. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The 60-day policy is dated 2026-10-06, which is 16 days before this read, so this is a reaper that was introduced recently and is the single most useful thing in the record. The FAQ states registration is blocked in some countries; Two open questions. One, whether 'login' means an interactive SSH session or any authentication, which decides whether a cron inside the host counts. Two, whether the TCP port is reachable from outside, because the services page lists it as a feature but no page states an inbound firewall rule. The host did not answer on 22 from this vantage, which is a routing fact and not a verdict. |
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Evidence 8
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | shells.efn.lt/start | '2026.10.06 - Important Update: Inactive Accounts Will Be Disabled After 60 Days', 'any shell account that has not been logged into for 60 consecutive days will be automatically disabled', and the VIP exception: 'Users who donate will receive VIP status and be added to the exception list', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | shells.efn.lt/services | the free tier table: 'Disk Quota 500 MB', 'Memory limit 256 MB', 'Background Processes 3', 'Simultaneous Processes 20', 'Listen TCP/UDP port (custom server)' checked, 'Monthly Fee $0.00', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | shells.efn.lt/services | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | shells.efn.lt/start | '2026.07.28 - Registration restrictions in selected regions' because of 'abuse, automated activity, and infrastructure load', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | shells.efn.lt/start | TCP connect timed out at 32376 ms from this host; recorded as no TCP answer from this host and not as a dead provider [receipt: ssh://shells.efn.lt:22] |
| 2026-11-03 | shells.efn.lt/services | the free plan includes SSH and SFTP access |
| 2026-11-04 | shells.efn.lt/services | SSH and SFTP access are on the free plan |
| 2026-11-04 | shells.efn.lt/services | the shell is reached by SSH |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "pubnix-shell","free_tier_kind": "perpetual","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": 0.25,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0,"disk_mib": 500}} |
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Unknown values 4
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed