VPSDime

Free allowance: Linux VPS at USD 5.00 per month: 2 CPU cores on Intel Xeon Gold, 4 GB ECC RAM, 20 GB SSD, 1 TB a month of transfer, 10 Gbps uplink.
Verdict: paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost: no price stated
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: volume-quota1 TB a month on a 10 Gbps uplink. The port is ten times what the allowance can carry in a day of sustained use, so the monthly byte count is the binding constraint rather than the link speed.
Evidence: documented6 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	Linux VPS at USD 5.00 per month: 2 CPU cores on Intel Xeon Gold, 4 GB ECC RAM, 20 GB SSD, 1 TB a month of transfer, 10 Gbps uplink. The next plan is USD 7.00 for 6 GB ECC and 2 TB. The tracker lists the same plan at the same price in Dallas, Los Angeles and Amsterdam; the vendor page states the specs and not the locations. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; none
Price	none stated
Limits	volume-quota (binding) 1 TB a month on a 10 Gbps uplink. The port is ten times what the allowance can carry in a day of sustained use, so the monthly byte count is the binding constraint rather than the link speed. source
Identity	email (placeholder) not stated
Egress	1 TB a month included; no overage rate is published on the page read free allowance: 1 TB a month
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated on the page read; the vendor documents no client or API
Composes with	4 GB of RAM and 2 cores for USD 5 with three U.S. and EU locations is the cheapest way to run a database or an index that must sit near the data, and the 1 TB allowance is enough for a metadata crawler that does not stream bodies
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The provider's own pages also sell a Storage VPS and a Windows VPS line that were not read, so the USD 5.00 row is the cheapest Linux plan, not the cheapest product on the site.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 0 volume-quota 1 TB / month

Evidence 6

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	vpsdime.com/linux-vps	first row of the Linux VPS table, under the columns 'CPU / Core / RAM / Storage / Transfer / Uplink / Price': 'Intel Xeon Gold / 2 CPU / 4GB ECC / 20GB SSD / 1TB / 10Gbps / $5.00/mo'
2026-10-22	vpsdime.com/linux-vps	second row: 'Intel Xeon Gold / 4 CPU / 6GB ECC / 30GB SSD / 2TB / 10Gbps / $7.00/mo'
2026-10-22	vpspricetracker.com/provider/VPSDime/vps	tracker agrees: '$5.00 / month 2 Intel Cores (shared) 4,096 MB RAM 20 GB SSD 1,000 GB/month bandwidth 10 Gbps port speed IPv4 + IPv6' in Dallas, Los Angeles and Amsterdam
2026-10-22	vpsdime.com/storage-vps	plan table quoted: 'Intel Xeon Gold \| 4 CPU \| 2GB ECC \| 1000GB \| 8TB \| 10Gbps \| $14.00/mo' and '4000GB \| 32TB \| $56.00/mo'; also '100GB \| 1TB \| $40.00/yr' and '250GB \| 2TB \| $60.00/yr'
2026-10-22	vpsdime.com/storage-vps	the page states 'Built with HGST Enterprise-grade HDDs in RAID10 configuration' and lists six locations: Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, Piscataway, Maidenhead, Amsterdam
2026-10-22	vpsdime.com/storage-vps/	the trailing-slash path returned 404 from the origin before any extractor ran; the path without the slash answered 403 and was extracted

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facets	`{"class": null,"free_tier_kind": "none","shape": {"vcpu": 2,"ram_gib": 4,"disk_gib": 20,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}}`

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