- Free allowance
- A free OpenBSD shell account on a pubnix: SSH, a home directory served over HTTP at tilde.institute/~user, mail in maildir, IRC clients, and a wiki.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthere is no form: 'Please join the IRC network and hang out for a while. You'll be able to request an account from there.'
- Evidence
- documented8 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 | A free OpenBSD shell account on a pubnix: SSH, a home directory served over HTTP at tilde.institute/~user, mail in maildir, IRC clients, and a wiki. No disk quota, RAM figure or traffic allowance is published on the home page, the FAQ or the signup page. unit none; metered on none; no quota of any kind is stated on the pages read; that is a documented absence, not a documented limit |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) there is no form: 'Please join the IRC network and hang out for a while. You'll be able to request an account from there.' source
- volume-quota no disk, memory or process quota is published anywhere read source
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| Binding | write-gated the account is granted by an admin on IRC after the applicant has spent time in the channel, and no quota is published to plan against even once granted |
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| Identity | email No card, no hold, no phone, no document. Joining is an IRC conversation: 'Please join the IRC network and hang out for a while. You'll be able to request an account from there. Connection details: institute.tilde.chat, Port 6697, TLS required.' There is no signup form to read, so what the account request itself asks for is not established. |
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| Egress | not stated: no traffic volume or bandwidth figure appears on any page read free allowance: unstated |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a home directory, not an object |
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| Retention | not stated: no inactivity clock or deletion policy appears on the news page, the FAQ or the signup page |
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| Interface | ssh SSH on the default port to an OpenBSD host; web space at https://tilde.institute/~user; git hosting at git.tilde.institute from the home directory; mail in maildir; IRC via the tilde.chat network |
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| Tooling | any SSH client; a shell on OpenBSD; the site's wiki |
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| Composes with | a free OpenBSD shell with a web directory and mail, which is a place to run a small script or publish a page, and is currently at risk of losing SSH access |
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| Reliability | the operator's news of 2026-10-22 states: 'PHP has been removed entirely. I will either be setting aside time to rebuild this whole thing on OpenBSD 8.0 soon, or I will need to turn off SSH access until I can make time.' That is a live statement that SSH access may be switched off |
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| Notes | The caveat is two-fold: no quota is published, and the service is at risk. What could not be established: the disk and memory limits, whether the IRC request is granted readily, and whether the OpenBSD 8.0 rebuild has happened. |
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| Evidence note | documented the joining procedure, the services and the at-risk notice are quoted from first-party pages read; the quota is a documented absence; no account was requested |
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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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