- Free allowance
- Quoted from the announcement body: 'One shared vCPU, 512 MB of memory, and 5 GB of storage, enough for a blog, a practice mail server, a bot, or a small flock of containers', plus 'A real, static IPv6 address, with reverse DNS you can edit yourself in the console' and a choice of Debian, Ubuntu...
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe applicant must verify a GitHub account that is at least two years old
- Evidence
- documented6 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 | Quoted from the announcement body: 'One shared vCPU, 512 MB of memory, and 5 GB of storage, enough for a blog, a practice mail server, a bot, or a small flock of containers', plus 'A real, static IPv6 address, with reverse DNS you can edit yourself in the console' and a choice of Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine and minimal images. The page's own meta description states '10 GB of storage' - the two figures on the same page disagree. unit GB; metered on wall-clock; the page says 5 GB in its body and 10 GB in its meta description; 5 GB is used because it is the sentence a reader acts on, and the conflict is recorded rather than resolved |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped monthly renewal against a community-points balance; a missed month pauses the server for up to 60 days source
- write-gated (binding) the applicant must verify a GitHub account that is at least two years old source
- volume-quota 512 MB RAM and 5 GB storage, one shared vCPU; no traffic allowance is stated source
- volume-quota the first batch is small: 'The first batch is small; if the queue is full, it moves as boxes are released, so check back.' source
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| Binding | write-gated a GitHub account at least two years old plus a community-points balance renewed monthly is the gate, and the supply is a queue that was opened on 2026-10-22 and is explicitly small |
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| Identity | email No card and no hold, stated plainly: 'Nobody will ever be asked for a payment method, because there is nothing to pay for.' The account is created on the SEUS community console and requires a GitHub account at least two years old: 'create an account and verify your GitHub account (at least two years old), same as for domains'. No phone and no document. The community membership is itself a gate: the points that renew the server are earned by posting. |
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| Egress | not stated: no traffic volume, shaping tier or bandwidth figure appears in the announcement or on the project's home page free allowance: unstated |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a virtual machine, not an object |
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| Retention | 'Each month, a light server needs a small number of community points to renew. ... Miss a month because life happened, and nothing dramatic occurs. The server is paused, not deleted. Your disk and configuration wait for up to 60 days, and the moment your balance recovers, the same machine comes back exactly as you left it.' (60 days) |
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| Interface | ssh SSH over IPv6, plus a web console at s.eus for image choice, reinstall and reverse DNS. Quoted: 'Reinstall from the same page whenever you break something'. No IPv4 at all. |
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| Tooling | any SSH client, but it must reach IPv6: the announcement says 'for SSH, connect from a network with IPv6 or through a tunnel' |
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| Composes with | a free always-on IPv6 box with 512 MB and a static address with editable rDNS, which suits a health monitor or an IPv6-only service; it cannot be a WireGuard endpoint for a client without IPv6 |
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| Reliability | no reliability event observed; the project states the machines are 'small and shared' and that 'A noisy neighbor can slow your disk', and asks that nothing be run that 'must never go down' |
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| Notes | Two things make this a caveat rather than a clean qualify: the supply is an explicit queue that opened three days before this read, and renewal depends on posting in a community rather than on paying or on logging in. That second point is unusual and worth stating plainly: the machine stays free if he writes a build log a month. The page disagrees with itself on storage (5 GB in the body, 10 GB in the meta description) and both are quoted. What could not be established: the traffic allowance, whether the queue has cleared, and what the request form asks. |
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| Evidence note | documented shape, the IPv6-only design, the renewal mechanic, the pause window and the GitHub gate are all quoted from the project's own announcement read; the s.eus console itself returned a marketing page rather than a form, so the request flow was not read |
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| Parsed numbers | - price USD 0 10 hours a day / month
- price USD 0 / month
- has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 512 MB
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