LowEndTalk member @BasToTheMax has a new venture called ErtixNodes that you might find interesting.

He’s offering FREE (as in FREE) VPSes to users who are willing to play fair and abide by simple rules.

Here are the details:

• 1GB RAM
• 1 vCPU
• 4GB disk
• NAT IPv4 (no IPv6 yet)
• Firewall only allows DNS and HTTP(S)
• Debian Linux only
• Each VPS is limited to 24 mbit/sec
• You need to renew the VPS every 48 hours, which takes 5 seconds to do

Activation is not automatic, to prevent abuse.

You need to join their Discord to request a VPS.  Then you can use a bot to create a VPS:

And after a short wait:

You get a DM with all the info:

Once you login:

$ ssh -p 33280 root@x.x.x.x
The authenticity of host '[x.x.x.x]:33280 ([x.x.x.x]:33280)' can't be established.
ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:XpXDGmdxzKWq+3KCbKE5MKi4dFGasnpp7rs7wk/iSSs.
This key is not known by any other names.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes
Warning: Permanently added '[x.x.x.x]:33280' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
root@x.x.x.x's password: 
Linux vps328 6.5.11-7-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC PMX 6.5.11-7 (2023-12-05T09:44Z) x86_64

##############################
# Hosted by ErtixNodes       #
# Free VPS Hosting           #
##############################

If this is your first time using the vps:
Please execute /used code:437183 in the discord server.

To get started: apt update -y

> To install packages: apt install <package-name>

root@vps328:~# 

The VM I got was provisioned with Debian 12.2 on an AMD EPYC 7282 processor.

Looks intriguing!  Free VPS offers have come and gone over the years.  The potential for abuse is high, from outright scammers to spam artists to people who have no idea what they’re doing.  @BasToTheMax seems to have thought this out and taken some reasonable precautions, so it’ll be interesting to see how this goes.

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I'm raindog308, techno polymath and long-time LowEndTalk community Administrator. My technical interests include all things Unix, perl, python, golang, shell scripting, vintage operating systems such as MVS, and relational database systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

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