- Free allowance
- 'tilde.horse is a digital community built upon a shared Alpine Linux server.' Access requires an SSH key: 'Shell access requires an SSH key - password authentication over SSH is disabled.' Signup asks for a username, an email, a public key and a note of at least 50 characters, then 'We'll email...
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotanot published; limits.conf caps processes and memory without stating the numbers
- Evidence
- documented4 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 | 'tilde.horse is a digital community built upon a shared Alpine Linux server.' Access requires an SSH key: 'Shell access requires an SSH key - password authentication over SSH is disabled.' Signup asks for a username, an email, a public key and a note of at least 50 characters, then 'We'll email you after review.' unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) not published; limits.conf caps processes and memory without stating the numbers source
- write-gated manual review of an application that includes a 50-character note source
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| Binding | volume-quota An undisclosed memory and process cap on a shared box binds first, and because the number is not published there is no ceiling to design against. |
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| Identity | email no card and no payment data: signup asks for an email address, a username, an SSH public key and a written reason of at least 50 characters. No phone and no document. A human reviews the application. |
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| Egress | not published: no traffic allowance appears on the pages read |
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| Per-object cap | not published: no disk quota or process cap is stated on the signup, manual or security pages read. The security page states only that 'Process and memory caps (limits.conf) prevent fork bombs and runaway memory allocation' without giving the numbers. |
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| Retention | not published: no inactivity sweep or expiry is stated on any page read. Signup is manually reviewed, and the operator says 'We'll email you after review'. |
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| Interface | ssh, sftp SSH on port 22 over clearnet, Yggdrasil, Tor and I2P; SFTP; a static web directory at ~/public_www served over HTTPS; mail, XMPP, IRC via soju, git hosting and a file-sharing service, all tied to the same PAM credentials |
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| Tooling | any SSH client with an ed25519 or RSA key; no password auth |
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| Composes with | A shared Alpine box that answers on port 22 and runs a cron, with mail and XMPP beside it. It is not a VPS and cannot be one: static hosting only, no sudo, and a process cap. |
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| Reliability | No reliability event observed. The site states '/signup is rate-limited against automated scripts'. |
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| Notes | It is not a VPS and the row does not pretend otherwise: static hosting only, no sudo, an undisclosed memory and process cap, and a human review. The 21 named members suggest a small live community rather than an abandoned host. The absence of any published quota is the weak point: it is a documented absence, not a documented limit, so it cannot enter arithmetic. |
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| Evidence note | documented The signup fields, the SSH-key-only rule and the isolation measures are quoted from the project's own pages read. Quota, retention and egress are all unpublished, so those fields are documented absences rather than limits and cannot be used in arithmetic. |
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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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