- Free allowance
- 'The free plan never expires', 'no credit card needed', 'Free subdomain for every server', 'Unmetered bandwidth on every plan'.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedthe free server expires unless an advertising or link flow is completed, with 12 or 24 hour renewal options
- Evidence
- documented5 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 | 'The free plan never expires', 'no credit card needed', 'Free subdomain for every server', 'Unmetered bandwidth on every plan'. The live panel mock on the home page shows 'CPU 0.3 vCPU', 'Memory 74 / 256 MB', 'Disk 120 / 512 MB'. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) the free server expires unless an advertising or link flow is completed, with 12 or 24 hour renewal options source
- volume-quota 0.3 vCPU, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB disk per free server source
- write-gated a link or advertising flow must be completed to extend uptime source
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| Binding | retention-clamped The machine does not survive unattended: its lifetime is measured in 12 or 24 hour blocks that a link or advertising flow has to renew, so a tab closed for a day ends the machine. |
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| Identity | email no card: quoted 'no credit card needed' on the signup page. The page states only that an account is created. Paid plans require the user to be at least 18. |
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| Egress | 'Unmetered bandwidth on every plan' free allowance: unmetered, per the signup page |
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| Per-object cap | not published as a count: the free plan is described per server (0.3 vCPU, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB disk) and no page read states how many free servers an account may hold |
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| Retention | The free plan is time-limited and renewed by hand. Quoted: 'The server runs for a limited time. Before it expires, complete a short advertising or link flow to extend its uptime. This funds the free plan.' The renewal options default to '12 or 24 hours', each usable 'once per renewal window', with a default window of 24 hours. |
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| Interface | sftp, rest a dashboard with a live console that accepts input, a file manager, and a free subdomain per server; seven runtimes (Node.js, Python, PHP, Bun, Java, C#, Rust) |
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| Tooling | the vendor dashboard; no SSH and no root |
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| Composes with | A small long-running process with a public subdomain, kept alive by a browser flow every 12 to 24 hours. Useful only where a human or a browser can do that flow, which rules out a fully unattended node. |
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| Reliability | The vendor status page at status.hokas.net reported 'All services are online' with 'Last updated on Oct 24, 2026 at 4:05am UTC', read. That is the vendor's own measurement. |
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| Notes | The contradiction is the finding: the marketing sentence and the documentation sentence are both on the vendor's own site, read. That renewal loop is a human action, so the machine does not survive a tab closing, which is the bar set. Everything else about it is reasonable: a real dashboard, seven runtimes, a free subdomain, unmetered bandwidth, no card. |
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| Evidence note | documented The renewal mechanics and the free plan's limits are quoted from the vendor's own documentation read. The exact free allocation is taken from the panel mock on the marketing page rather than from a plan table, which is weaker, and the signup form's fields were not read. |
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| Parsed numbers | - price USD 0 10 hours a day / month
- price USD 0 / month
- has-free-tier 1
- retention-clamped 24 hour
- volume-quota 256 MB
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