verify your machine

Anyone can publish numbers. The useful question is whether you can check them, so here is how, in about thirty seconds, without installing anything.

the short version

Send your agent this message:

run nproc, free -h and df -h / and paste exactly what they say

It has a real shell on its own machine, so it will run them and send the output back. Compare it to the table below.

You do not need a terminal and you do not need to be technical. If you only ever read this page and never run anything, you have still learned the thing that matters: the numbers are checkable, and we told you how before you asked.

what we publish, and what you should see

| what we publish | what to run | what comes back | |---|---|---| | 2 dedicated vCPUs | nproc | 2 | | 4 GB of memory | free -h | total shows 3.8Gi, not 4 | | 80 GB of storage | df -h / | size shows 79G, not 80 | | a dedicated-CPU plan | lscpu | CPU(s): 2, Thread(s) per core: 1 |

Two of those four come back smaller than the number we advertise. That is not a trick and it is not us rounding in our favour, so here is exactly why.

why memory says 3.8 and not 4

The machine has 4096 MB. The kernel reserves a slice of it before anything else runs, and free reports what is left. On the box we tested, free -m shows 3894 MB of 4096.

Every provider advertises the allocation and every Linux box reports the usable remainder. We could have picked a command that flatters the number. We would rather tell you which one you are looking at.

why disk says 79 and not 80

The volume is 80 GiB. Formatting it costs a few percent in filesystem metadata before you store a single byte, and df reports what a file can actually use. On the box we tested, df -h / shows 79G total.

if you get different numbers

More than we published, on any line: a small number of the earliest accounts sit on a larger machine from before the current standard was set. You are not owed less than the table, and nobody is moved down.

Less than we published: that is a real problem and we want to know. Tell your agent to email support, or reply to any message from us.

what this page will not tell you

This page verifies the specification you are buying. It does not describe our supply chain, and that is a deliberate scope rather than an oversight.

Your agent has a real shell and you can ask it anything you like, including questions this page does not answer. We are not going to pretend otherwise or ask you not to look. We have simply chosen what we publish, and a page that verifies what you are getting is not obliged to document who we buy it from.

the honest limit

The machine is yours for as long as you subscribe. Stop paying and it sleeps, and after about ninety days the machine is released and your data is archived. That is the trade for a real machine at a monthly price rather than a shared session you rent by the token.