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- Free allowance
- A Russian-market VPS seller that accepts ordinary registration and payment from anyone and then, once the order is placed, requires phone verification with a Russian mobile number only, a condition not stated during signup.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- country-phoneno card, phone required
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe gate is a Russian mobile number demanded after the money has moved, which is the worst placement of an identity check because it costs the buyer the transaction rather than the signup; nothing about capacity or price decides this...
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-06checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-06
| Free tier | A Russian-market VPS seller that accepts ordinary registration and payment from anyone and then, once the order is placed, requires phone verification with a Russian mobile number only, a condition not stated during signup. The buyer in the report could not verify, received no server, and was refused a refund. This is the clearest case of identity as the binding constraint: the quota was available, the payment cleared, and the door closed at verification. unit none; metered on wall-clock; none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) The gate is a Russian mobile number demanded after the money has moved, which is the worst placement of an identity check because it costs the buyer the transaction rather than the signup; nothing about capacity or price decides this provider. source
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| Identity | country-phone a Russian mobile number for phone verification, demanded after registration and payment have completed and not disclosed at signup: the LowEndTalk report states registration and payment completed normally, then phone verification with a Russian mobile number was required, the server was never delivered and no refund was made. The payment route is the one the buyer had already cleared; no card type, hold amount or debit acceptance is stated. One reporting buyer only, so this is reported rather than documented |
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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 | part of the text of Free tier, above |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | One reporting buyer, so the rung is reported and the pattern rests on a single account; a second independent report would move it. Two neighbours found in the same search and not recorded separately: 4vps.su, where a published complaint says a VDS was paid for and never worked, with no refund and a ticket left unanswered, and Digital-VM, reported on the same forum as having operated earlier as Virpus and shut down a paying customer's second server when a payment dispute was raised. |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | lowendtalk.com/discussion/207701/scam-alert-hosting-vds-com | a July 2025 LowEndTalk post reports that registration and payment completed normally, that phone verification with a Russian mobile number was then required and had not been disclosed, that the server was never delivered and no refund was made, and that the support reply was abusive |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "identity-gate-failure","free_tier_kind": "none","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field