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beta — invitations, limits and caveats

chroot.dev is a beta, by invitation: a 14-day trial, then plans from US$ 5 a month.

If you want a long-lived OpenBSD server, https://openbsd.amsterdam already does that well. chroot.dev is for VMs you create, change and destroy from a script or a terminal.

Invitations go out by hand, in small batches. Ask at invite@chroot.dev; you get a one-time code. Signing up, and the host key to check before the first connection: account(7).

Per account, by plan, stopped VMs included; the trial has 1 VM, 1 cpu, 512 MiB of memory, 5 GiB of disk and 10 GiB of traffic a month in and out. Network 20 Mbit/s each way per VM; past the account's monthly traffic, 1 Mbit/s until the month ends (UTC), or billed per GiB with a subscription. Inbound traffic counts as well, including what reaches the public address unasked. billing shows the plan and the month's traffic.

Plans from US$ 5 (R$ 25) a month; see billing(1). What it costs to run and what it earns is in costs(7).

billing(1), status(1), account(7), costs(7), guest(7), terms(7)

host
One dedicated server at OVHcloud in Beauharnois, Canada.
speed
From new to a working ssh takes 0.7 to 0.9 s measured on the host. From your network, add the round trips to Beauharnois; expect higher latency from South America, Europe and Asia.
data
Disks survive stop, start and host reboots. There are no backups yet: keep a copy of anything you care about.
end of beta
You are notified at the address you gave before VMs are removed.
abuse
Report to abuse@chroot.dev; what is not allowed is in terms(7).
chroot.devOctober 10, 2026BETA(7)