Vultr announced a free tier yesterday, which has prompted a fast-growing thread on LowEndTalk as people clamor to get on-board.

Here’s a bit about it from Vultr:

• You must sign up for Vultr and have a credit card on file.  No PayPal or other forms of payment – must be a credit card.
• Your account must have 2FA enabled – which you should always do anyways.
• Vultr recommends you fill out all your profile info, which includes your company if any, industry, and what you use your VPS for.

I’m not sure how significant that last bullet point is, but Vultr is using a “weighted score” to determine who gets these.  It’s not purely random, according to their announcement.  Presumably this is to reduce fraud, spam, and other ne’er-do-wells.  So if your personal info is easily verified, you pay your bills, and you look like a developer who might some day lead your organization to spend millions at Vultr, you probably have a better chance.  Or as they put it:

This is an early access release. We are prioritizing access for users who request it by completing the form, and will be incrementally granting access to users who sign up for Vultr with a business email address. You can learn more about the program’s eligibility and admission process here.

What You Get

The system is:

• 1 vCPU
• 512MB RAM
• 10GB Disk
• 2 TB bandwidth
• IPv4

Some fine points:

• The announcement doesn’t mention IPv6 but that is likely, given that Vultr sells IPv6-only VPSes and there is no shortage of IPv6 addresses. UPDATE: IPv6 is included, see below.
• Locations are not specified but my guess is that you’re more likely to see this in places like Silicon Valley, New York, Amsterdam, and other common locations rather than Osaka or Melbourne, but that’s just a guess.

I certainly appreciate Vultr’s LowEnd attitude:

With these resources, you’ll have enough compute power at your disposal to prototype and run many small-scale websites and web applications.

👍

UPDATE:

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