- Free allowance
- 'Hashnix is a non-commercial, free to join pubnix.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedregistration is a form reviewed by a human; the form asks for username, email, 'about me', 'sign-up purpose' and an optional SSH public key
- Evidence
- documented8 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | 'Hashnix is a non-commercial, free to join pubnix. All services are provided free-of-charge as public service. Services include: Free shell account (SSH), Media portal, Group chat (dream), Site-hosting (Gopher, Gemini, HTTP), Bulletin Board (bbj), E-mail + more available programs by signing up for membership and logging into the system.' unit none; metered on none; no disk quota, RAM figure, traffic allowance or process limit is published on any page read; the terms, the about page, the print index and the register page were all read and none states one |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) registration is a form reviewed by a human; the form asks for username, email, 'about me', 'sign-up purpose' and an optional SSH public key source
- volume-quota no quota is published anywhere read; the limit is not knowable from the site source
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| Binding | write-gated the account exists only after a human reads a free-text application, and no quota is published, so there is nothing to design a workload against even once accepted |
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| Identity | email No card, no hold, no phone, no document. The registration form as served has exactly three inputs — a text field named 'name', a text field named 'contact', and a submit button — plus three textareas named 'message', 'purpose' and 'cert' rendered as 'about me', 'sign-up purpose' and 'SSH-pubkey (optional)'. The terms add an age gate: 'All registrants of user accounts must be 18+ years of age.' |
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| Egress | not stated: no traffic volume, shaping tier or bandwidth figure appears on any page read free allowance: unstated |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a home directory, not an object |
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| Retention | not stated: no inactivity clock, deletion policy or archival rule appears on the terms, about, print index or register pages |
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| Interface | ssh SSH shell account, plus site hosting over Gopher, Gemini and HTTP, a bulletin board (bbj), local group chat (dream), e-mail, a media/radio portal and an Icecast stream |
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| Tooling | any SSH client; the vendor's own CGI tools for radio and media; gopher and gemini clients |
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| Composes with | a small open-registration pubnix with SSH, cron-capable shell and HTTP hosting, which is a place to run a script and publish a page but has no published quota to plan against |
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| Reliability | the operator published a key-rotation and CVE notice on 2026-05-15 and an amendment on 2026-05-20, including 'the SSH keys have been rotated and you are safe to replace previously used keystores'; no outage was observed |
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| Notes | The caveat is the absence of any published quota: a shell account with no stated disk, memory or traffic limit is a discretionary allocation, which is worse to plan against than a small published one. The 18+ gate is a statement of terms and was not tested. What could not be established: the actual disk and memory limits, the traffic allowance, whether cron and a listening port are permitted, and whether the human review accepts a stranger. |
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| Evidence note | documented the service list, the terms and the registration form are quoted from first-party pages read. The quota is a documented absence, not a documented limit, and the record's verdict does not rest on it |
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| Parsed numbers | - price USD 0 10 hours a day / month
- price USD 0 / month
- has-free-tier 1
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