- Free allowance
- [translated] 'To celebrate UlziX's half-year anniversary we are launching a pre-sale event for a permanently free Hong Kong NAT VPS.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 0.09/month
- Identity
- emailno card, phone required
- Binding limit
- write-gated[translated] 'Everyone: renew manually once a month, permanently free.'
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-07checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-07
| Free tier | [translated] 'To celebrate UlziX's half-year anniversary we are launching a pre-sale event for a permanently free Hong Kong NAT VPS. Datacenter: Hong Kong district 11, China Telecom CN2 with direct connections for the others. Configuration: 1 CPU core, 128 MB memory, 128 MB disk. Type: NAT virtual machine. Commitment: permanently free, no charge, no points deducted.' unit mixed; metered on unstated |
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| Price | CNY 0 on the free waves; the sibling 19-district public-benefit NAT is CNY 0.60 per month |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) [translated] 'Everyone: renew manually once a month, permanently free.' source
- per-ip-shaping [translated] 'inbound bandwidth 10 Mbit, outbound bandwidth 10 Mbit' and 'IPv4 port mapping: 10' for the 19-district public-benefit NAT on the same order page source
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| Binding | write-gated 10 Mbit carries 1 TiB/month at 3.39 Mbit/s sustained (1099511627776 bytes over 30 days), so the shaping does not bind. |
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| Identity | email No national ID or local phone is required by the text read. |
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| Egress | [translated] No byte allowance is published for the free machine. The offer states 'the resource pool is contention-based and stability is not guaranteed; do not run CPU or bandwidth full for long periods or the machine will be rebuilt'. The sibling 19-district NAT product on the same order page caps at 10 Mbit in and 10 Mbit out.; ingress: tcp+udp free allowance: none published |
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| Interface | ssh, cli [translated] The order page lists per-district NAT products at idc-new.ulzix.com/order; the review shows panel-set port mapping and an Alpine or Debian image. |
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| Tooling | root on a KVM guest, so wg-quick, SSH and any port-forwarding rule the panel exposes; images are Ubuntu 22.04 or Debian 12 per the review |
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| Reliability | Contended resource pool with rebuilds for long saturation; multi-account buying is detected and all machines on the account are deleted; a missed monthly renewal ends the machine; the public-benefit district is explicitly 'no after-sales support'. |
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| Notes | The strongest Hong Kong lead and the only free NAT host in it with a stated port-mapping count: a real KVM guest with root, ten forwarded IPv4 ports, Hong Kong district 11 on CN2, permanently free with monthly renewal. Its cost is supply: 30 machines per wave, six waves so far, each gone in minutes, and the operator explicitly rebuilds machines that saturate the pool. The free wave and the 0.60 CNY public-benefit product are different products on the same order page; only the port count and 10 Mbit shaping come from the paid card and that transfer is marked reported, not measured. Country: Hong Kong. |
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| Evidence note | reported Port-mapping count and bandwidth are quoted from the paid sibling product, which may not match the free machine. Registering an account and reading the panel would raise it to documented. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- price CNY 0.6 / month
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