ServerCrate
- Free allowance
- No free cloud server; the cheapest is SC-0 at USD 3 a month or USD 30 a year: 1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB NVMe, a shared IPv4 with SSH and 20 forwarded ports, a 25 Mbps network, 1 TB of transfer a month, full root on KVM and a 25 GB encrypted backup vault included.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1 TB of transfer a month on SC-0 and 3 TB on SC-1 and up, with networking paused at the allowance until the 1st of the next month; SC-0 has a 25 Mbps network and shares one IPv4, with SSH plus 20 forwarded ports
- Evidence
- documented28 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | no free cloud server; the cheapest is SC-0 at USD 3 a month or USD 30 a year: 1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB NVMe, a shared IPv4 with SSH and 20 forwarded ports, a 25 Mbps network, 1 TB of transfer a month, full root on KVM and a 25 GB encrypted backup vault included. SC-1 is USD 7 a month or USD 70 a year: 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, a dedicated IPv4 with all 65535 ports, 50 Mbps down and 40 Mbps up, 3 TB of transfer a month and a 100 GB backup vault. SC-2 is USD 12 a month and SC-3 USD 20 a month. The same vendor also sells a free 10 GB Restic backup vault, a separate backup offer. unit none; metered on none; no free cloud server |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
the binding count is the monthly transfer allowance (1 TB on SC-0, 3 TB on SC-1 and up); SC-0 also has a shared IPv4 with 20 forwarded ports |
| Binding | volume-quota the binding count is the monthly transfer allowance (1 TB on SC-0, 3 TB on SC-1 and up); the server stays up and its networking pauses at the cap |
| Identity | email Sign-up asks for an email address and a password, with an optional full name; no card, phone or ID field is on the form. Paid servers can be paid by card through Stripe, by PayPal, or by on-chain Bitcoin, so a card is one of three payment choices and not required. The server order form was not read, so any further field it asks for is unverified: behind a sign-up. |
| Egress | SC-0 includes a 25 Mbps network and 1 TB of transfer a month; SC-1 and up include 3 TB a month on 50 Mbps down and 40 Mbps up. A server that reaches its allowance has its networking paused until the 1st of the next month; the server keeps running and nothing is deleted, and overage is not billed automatically. free allowance: 1 TB a month on SC-0, 3 TB a month on SC-1 and up |
| Retention | unverified: the cloud-servers page states no retention window for a server disk after cancellation |
| Interface | ssh SSH on the shared IPv4 and its forwarded ports on SC-0, on the dedicated IPv4 from SC-1; a portal handles status, power, credentials, IPv6, firewall, cancellation and resumption; not probed |
| Tooling | full root on a KVM guest over SSH; the portal handles status, power, credentials, IPv6, firewall, cancellation and resumption. Each server includes an encrypted backup vault that standard Restic writes to from inside the guest |
| Composes with | SC-0 is a 512 MB server at USD 3 a month whose shared IPv4 carries SSH and 20 forwarded ports only; a dedicated address with all 65535 ports starts at SC-1 at USD 7 a month. Every server bundles a backup vault: 25 GB on SC-0 and 100 GB on SC-1. |
| Reliability | The status page read on 2026-10-30 shows every monitored component operational and no active incident. The incidents page read on 2026-10-30 lists 2 incidents in 2026, each resolved the same day with no stored data lost: on 2026-09-27 vault creation failed for some new signups; on 2026-08-09 a rate limit shared by every vault returned temporary HTTP 503 responses to backup requests under load, seen only on the vendor's internal test vaults with no customer backup failed, and the limits are now per vault at 16 connections and 60 requests per second. |
| Notes | The vendor's domain is servercrate.net. The compute line is paid: SC-0 USD 3 a month, SC-1 USD 7, SC-2 USD 12 and SC-3 USD 20, on hardware in Los Angeles; the dedicated IPv4 of SC-1 and up is routed through Ashburn, Virginia and carried to Los Angeles over an encrypted tunnel, so latency follows an East Coast path. The vendor also sells a free 10 GB Restic backup vault (2 devices, 7-day snapshot history, no card, no expiry), a separate offer from these servers. |
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Evidence 28
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | servercrate.net/ | vendor page quoted: '10 GB free, no credit card'; '$ 0 /mo $ 0 /yr' with '10 GB encrypted storage', '2 devices', '7-day snapshot history'; '10 GB free tier never expires. No egress fees on restore'; 'No backup or bandwidth caps'; product card 'Backup Vaults Free, then $2/mo'; paid tiers listed at '250 GB encrypted storage', '1 TB encrypted storage', '2 TB encrypted storage' and '5 TB encrypted storage ... Opening soon, join the waitlist' |
| 2026-10-22 | lowendbox.com/blog/lets-try-servercrate-restic-based-backups | third-party offer post, published 2026-09-27: 'You can get started for FREE with a 10GB vault. I think that is really cool, because it is enough to actually give it a try and use it productively. It is not time-limited'; the walkthrough shows a working 'restic init' against 'rest:https://vaultuser:...@<vaultid>.vault.servercrate.net/' and a first snapshot of 709 files |
| 2026-10-30 | servercrate.net/ | on 2026-10-30 the origin page (Last-Modified Fri, 30 Oct 2026 04:02:37 GMT) shows the Business tier, USD 45 a month for 5 TB, 100 devices and 180-day history, as 'Available on request: contact us'; the waitlist wording is gone |
| 2026-10-30 | servercrate.net/ | the free tier and its no-expiry and no-egress-fee terms, read 2026-10-30 |
| 2026-10-30 | portal.servercrate.net/register?plan=free | the free signup form read on 2026-10-30: optional full name, required email and password (minimum 12 characters), a Cloudflare Turnstile widget and a proof-of-work field; no card, phone or ID field |
| 2026-10-30 | status.servercrate.net/ | the status page read on 2026-10-30 shows 7/7 components online and no active incident |
| 2026-10-30 | servercrate.net/pricing/ | the pricing page read on 2026-10-30 lists the SC-0 cloud server at USD 3 a month with 1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM and 10 GB NVMe, and the Business vault as 'Available on request: contact us' |
| 2026-10-30 | servercrate.net/ | the install path read on 2026-10-30 from the origin page; it no longer names a desktop app |
| 2026-10-30 | servercrate.net/ | the only cap stated is the plan's storage, read 2026-10-30 |
| 2026-10-30 | servercrate.net/incidents/ | the incidents page read on 2026-10-30 lists an incident dated 2026-09-27, resolved the same day, with no data lost |
| 2026-10-30 | servercrate.net/incidents/ | the incidents page read on 2026-10-30 counts two 2026 incidents: 2026-09-27 vault creation and 2026-08-09 shared vault-edge rate limit (HTTP 503, now 16 connections and 60 requests per second per vault) |
| 2026-10-30 | servercrate.net/incidents/ | the 2026-08-09 incident: temporary HTTP 503 responses under load from a rate limit shared by every vault |
| 2026-10-30 | servercrate.net/incidents/ | the 2026-08-09 errors were seen only on the vendor's internal test vaults and no customer backup failed |
| 2026-10-30 | servercrate.net/incidents/ | after the 2026-08-09 incident the vault edge limits are 16 connections and 60 requests per second per vault |
| 2026-10-30 | status.servercrate.net/ | the status page read on 2026-10-30 shows all monitored components operational and no active incident or maintenance notice |
| 2026-11-03 | servercrate.net/cloud-servers/ | SC-0 is a paid cloud server at USD 3 a month or USD 30 a year; no free server plan is listed |
| 2026-11-03 | servercrate.net/cloud-servers/ | transfer allowance behaviour at the cap |
| 2026-11-03 | servercrate.net/cloud-servers/ | monthly transfer allowance by plan |
| 2026-11-03 | servercrate.net/cloud-servers/ | SC-0 is reached over SSH on a shared IPv4 with 20 forwarded ports |
| 2026-11-03 | servercrate.net/cloud-servers/ | every server bundles a backup vault written to with Restic from inside the guest |
| 2026-11-03 | servercrate.net/cloud-servers/ | SC-0 has a 25 Mbps network and 1 TB of transfer |
| 2026-11-03 | servercrate.net/ | payment routes for paid plans |
| 2026-11-03 | servercrate.net/cloud-servers/ | location and routing of the dedicated address |
| 2026-11-03 | portal.servercrate.net/register?plan=free | the signup page offers a free 10 GB vault with no card; the free offer is a backup vault, and the form asks for an email address and a password |
| 2026-11-03 | servercrate.net/pricing/ | the free plan is the 10 GB backup vault, listed under zero-knowledge encrypted offsite backup and not under the cloud servers |
| 2026-11-03 | portal.servercrate.net/register?plan=sc-0 | the sign-up form reached from the SC-0 Deploy link asks for an optional full name, an email address and a password; no card, phone or ID field |
| 2026-11-03 | servercrate.net/pricing/ | paid plans can be paid by card, PayPal or Bitcoin, so a card is one of three payment choices |
| 2026-11-03 | servercrate.net/ | payment choices are card via Stripe, PayPal or on-chain Bitcoin |
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Unknown values 1
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer