natbox.io: free 1-month NAT VPS trial (256 MB, IPv6 /80), released in small drops on Telegram
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Hi LES! Alongside our LES50OFF offer, here's how our free trial works, and why it now comes in drops.
What you get, free for one month
- 256 MB RAM, 3 GB SSD, 5 forwarded IPv4 ports (TCP and UDP) on a shared IPv4
- A routed /80 of IPv6
- Unprivileged Incus LXC container: Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine or AlmaLinux, root over SSH
- Client area with power, reinstall, browser console, snapshots and usage graphs
- Same Contabo KVM hosts in Germany as our paid plans
What we need from you
- An account with a verified email. No card, no PayPal, no payment details of any kind.
- One trial per person. Throwaway and disposable email addresses aren't accepted.
Why drops?
On 9 November about 300 bot accounts signed up within a few hours to grab trials, so trials sold out before real people got one. We now release a few slots at a time instead:
- The drop is posted first on our Telegram channel: https://t.me/natboxio
- 10 minutes later the slots open on https://my.natbox.io/products/nat-vps/free-trial
- First come, first served. The last drop sold out in about a minute, so sign up and verify your email before the drop.
Drops come every few days, depending on free capacity. We don't post times in advance, because the bots read those too.
When the month ends
The trial isn't renewed and nothing is charged. It's suspended 2 days after the month ends and deleted 14 days after that. If you'd like to keep it, order any paid plan before then (LES50OFF still gives 50% off your first period).
Your data
For a trial we store your name, email, and the IP addresses and times you sign up and log in. We use them to run your account, to keep it to one trial per person, and for fraud and abuse checks. Everything is stored in Germany, and we never sell your data or use it for advertising. Full details: https://natbox.io/privacy
Same rules as paid servers: our AUP applies, outbound 25/465/587 are blocked, no Docker or nested containers.
Questions are welcome here, and I'll answer them myself.
— Mohammad