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- Free allowance
- A free shared shell account while active; 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
- request-rateno user ports are opened; services are local-only
- 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 shared shell account while active; no RAM, CPU or disk figure is published unit none; metered on none; signup is by invitation or request |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) no user ports are opened; services are local-only source
- write-gated signup is by invitation or request source
any admin may kill a process under load |
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| Binding | request-rate no user ports are opened at all: the network policy binds and no quota is published |
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| Identity | email an account request; no card |
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| Egress | ports are not opened for users |
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| Retention | no expired-account policy is published; the 7-day auto-kick applies to the IRC channel and not the shell |
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| Interface | rest, cli SSH on port 22 |
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| Tooling | SSH, screen or tmux, crontab, a shared Debian userspace |
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| Composes with | a shell to hold a cron job, reachable only outbound; a relay is required to serve anything |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Reachable today and quiet. The network is the wall, not the machine: no inbound port exists, so anything served must be pulled out through a tunnel. |
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| Evidence note | documented reachability only: a probe proves the port answers, not the quota, so the port policy carries the documented rung and 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.town:22 | TCP connect succeeded in 0.56 s over IPv6 and read banner SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_10.0p2 Debian-7+deb13u4; an earlier saved run on the same day recorded 7.49 s for the same host, so the connect time is a property of the path and not of the host |
| 2026-10-22 | tilde.town/wiki/faq.html | 'we don't open any ports for users to use; however, you can run simple services or cron jobs for local-only access', quoted |
More fields 10
| 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 published"} |
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| keep rate | {"value": 0.0,"basis": "a free account costs nothing","source": "https://tilde.town/wiki/faq.html"} |
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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": false,"ports": "none opened for users","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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Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed