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lowendspirit.com/discussion/10909/welcome-to-fossvps-and-gooCloud VMcompute/fossvpsJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- FOSSVPS is a free 2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 64 GiB VPS gated on a human review of the applicant's open-source work.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe gate is a reputation held on one of two named forums plus a country the operator will accept, so an applicant with no LET or LES history and a blocked country cannot enter at all, whatever their open-source work.
- Evidence
- documented8 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | FOSSVPS is a free 2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 64 GiB VPS gated on a human review of the applicant's open-source work. The provider's own forum posts show a second gate: forum reputation on named boards, with entire communities excluded. 'Nodeseek is no longer an accepted forum for potential new clients. Clients with good non spammy reputations are only accepted from LET or LES. Registration via a VPN is blocked. Throw away email addresses are blocked. Registering from Russia, China or North Korea is blocked.' And on the abuse that caused it: '29th of May VPS's belonging to NodeSeek clients will be terminated with no records kept.' unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; sponsored-per-node |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) The gate is a reputation held on one of two named forums plus a country the operator will accept, so an applicant with no LET or LES history and a blocked country cannot enter at all, whatever their open-source work. source
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| Identity | institution not published |
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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 | The per-node sponsor dates are the composition rule: a box on buc2 expired 2026-10-17 and a rebuild to another node destroys the data, so this is a place to run a workload and not a place to keep state. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | First, the identity cost is not merely an open-source track record: it is a reputation on one of two forums, which is an institutional standing a user does not hold, so the verdict moves from qualifies-with-caveat to fails-identity. Second, the node list carries printed end dates and the nearest ones are in the past or within weeks: buc2 ended 2026-10-17 and buc1 ended 2026-04-17, which is why the 64 GiB machine is a recurring rebuild rather than an allocation. The country exclusions are recorded here as a reachability fact about who the operator serves, not as a judgement. qualifies-with-caveat via a07-regional. The one recorded is the better-evidenced. |
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Evidence 8
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-05-27 | lowendspirit.com/discussion/10909/welcome-to-fossvps-and-goo | quoted exclusions: NodeSeek clients terminated with no records kept; only LET or LES reputations accepted; VPN registration blocked; throwaway emails blocked; registration from Russia, China or North Korea blocked |
| 2026-10-22 | fossvps.org/ | quoted in full: 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 64 GiB HDD, dual-stack NAT plus IPv6 /128 or /96, IPv4 very limited, and six locations with named sponsors and end dates ranging from 17th October 2026 to 1st February 2028 |
| 2026-10-22 | fossvps.org/ | 'VPS: 2VCPU, 4GiB Ram and 64GiB HDD', 'Dual stack NAT + IPv6 /128 or /96 Location dependent', 'IPv4 very limited', 'OS: Debian, Ubuntu and Alpine', quoted, with six locations and end dates from 2026-12-21 to 2028-02-01 |
| 2026-10-22 | lowendtalk.com/discussion/215848/fossvps-updates-free-server | 'Absolutely FREE, no catches, no credits, no price bumps'; 'Free and open source software developers only'; 'Good reputation on this forum (no history, no server - sorry)'; 'Multiple registrations will get you banned'; 'Acceptance will give you 2 VCPU, 4GiB Ram, 64GiB disk with NAT + IPv6 /96', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | lowendspirit.com/discussion/10570/important-buc1-hosteroid-s | quoted: 'node buc1 will terminate on 17th of April 2026 ... all data WILL BE DESTROYED' |
| 2026-10-22 | lowendtalk.com/discussion/217109/fossvps-mol1-server-current | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | lowendtalk.com/discussion/212694/free-vps-for-open-source-de | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | lowendtalk.com/discussion/214669/important-buc1-hosteroid-se | not published |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "enforcement","free_tier_kind": "sponsored-per-node","shape": {"vcpu": 2,"ram_gib": 4,"disk_gib": 64}} |
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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
lowendspirit.com/discussion/6958/scaleway-the-end-of-the-frestorage/scaleway-perpetual-75-gb-free-object-storageJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- Removed December 2023; only the 75 GB/month free egress survived.
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-18checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-11-18
| Free tier | Removed December 2023; only the 75 GB/month free egress survived. The replacement is a one-shot 750 GB / 90-day trial. A free-for-dev PR was merged removing Scaleway for exactly this reason. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | 75GB of egress free every month, then EUR 0.01/GB; ingress and requests included. |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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| Evidence note | reported The 2026-11-03 evidence row reads https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/storage/ for Object Storage egress (75GB free every month, then EUR 0.01/GB). The removal of the free storage tier is cited only to a forum thread, not a vendor capture, so the rung stays reported. |
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Evidence 2
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "egress","why": "Removed December 2023; only the 75 GB/month free egress survived. The replacement is a one-shot 750 GB / 90-day trial. A free-for-dev PR was merged removing Scaleway for exactly this reason.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 6
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field
lowendspirit.com/discussion/3945/kts24-com-free-storage-vps-storage/kts24-1-tb-storage-vps-free-for-3-monthsJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- 1000 GB storage on an unmanaged VPS with 1 vCore, 2 GB memory and 2 TB traffic per month, free of charge for at least 3 months; EUR 8.99 per month after the 3 months.
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported11 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- checked 2026-11-03checked 2026-11-03 (inherited)
| Free tier | 1000 GB storage on an unmanaged VPS with 1 vCore, 2 GB memory and 2 TB traffic per month, free of charge for at least 3 months; EUR 8.99 per month after the 3 months. A test offer posted in March 2022 in a discussion that is now closed unit GB; metered on stored-bytes; a March 2022 test offer in a LowEndSpirit thread that is now closed; trial servers expire at the end of the trial unless extended |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email the March 2022 test needed an account at the provider's panel and a request e-mail sent from the registered address; no card was asked for in the offer text. The offer is closed |
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| Egress | not recorded |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not recorded |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 11
More fields 2
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": null,"retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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| death | {"on": "2026-11-03","cause": "free-tier-removed"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field