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- Free allowance
- A free FreeBSD pubnix account, about 214 users; no RAM, CPU or disk figure is published
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedsignup is curated by a person and was disabled at one point after excess use
- Evidence
- documented2 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 | a free FreeBSD pubnix account, about 214 users; no RAM, CPU or disk figure is published unit none; metered on none; signup is curated: 'Talk to sarmonsiill about getting an account' |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) signup is curated by a person and was disabled at one point after excess use source
the human gate is the constraint, not a quota |
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| Binding | write-gated signup is curated by a person and was disabled at one point, so the human gate binds before any quota |
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| Identity | email a request to the operator; no card |
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| Egress | not published |
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| Retention | no idle policy documented |
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| Interface | rest, cli SSH on port 22 |
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| Tooling | SSH, cron, a FreeBSD userspace |
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| Composes with | a FreeBSD shell behind a human gate |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The port is open and the banner did not arrive, which is a slow or filtered greeting rather than a dead host. The gate is a person, and that is the fact that decides whether it is available. |
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| Evidence note | documented reachability only: a probe proves the port answers, not the account gate, so the record is not measured |
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| Parsed numbers | - price USD 0 10 hours a day / month
- price USD 0 / month
- has-free-tier 1
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | probe: tilde.guru:22 | TCP connect succeeded in 0.41 s over IPv6 (2a05:f480:1400:a93:5400:3ff:fe7b:d45d) but the host sent no banner within 6 s |
| 2026-10-22 | tilde.guru/ | 'tilde.guru is a FreeBSD pubnix server, part of the tildeverse. Free shell accounts for those who seek knowledge'; the page lists member home directories at 512 MB each |
More fields 11
| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
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| billing model | flat-pool |
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| granularity | {"min_billed_s": null,"rounding_s": null} |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none documented"} |
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| keep rate | {"value": 0.0,"basis": "a free account costs nothing","source": "https://tilde.guru/"} |
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| persistent storage | {"included_gib": null,"price_gib_month": "not offered","durability": "home directory","survives_stop": true,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "while active"} |
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| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": null,"ports": null,"static_ip": false,"ipv6": true,"per_session_bytes": null} |
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| free tier kind | allowance |
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| m10h usd | 0.0 |
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| m24h usd | 0.0 |
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| probe result | port open, no banner within 12 s |
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Unknown values 3
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed