List of free shell providers

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This article contains a description of free shell providers around the world.

The informations have been reviewed and added with agreement of the administrators. 
The list is alphabetically sorted by providers name.
  • Provider - Provider name and URL
  • Location - Country where the server is located
  • Since - When they started to provide free shells
  • Processor - Processor type and speed
  • Memory - Amount of memory
  • OS - Operating system
  • Net - Internet connection speed in Mbit/s (DOWNstream/UPstream)
  • BG - Allowed background processes
  • Quota - disk quota allowed in Mb (Megabytes)
  • IRC - Internet relay chat allowed
  • Channel - Official IRC channel
  • IPv4 - Internet protocol 4 (number of IPs)
  • IPv6 - Internet protocol 6
  • Egg - Eggdrop or other bot allowance
  • GCC - Gnu C compiler
Provider Location Since Processor Memory OS Net BG Quota IRC Channel IPv4 IPv6 Egg GCC
Anapnea Washington USA January 2007 Dual Xeon 2.8 GHz 8 GB Gentoo Linux 100/100 36 8 Yes #anapnea @ irc.freenode.net 5 No No Yes
Arbornet Michigan USA June 1985 ? 110 Mb Freebsd ? No 1 No No 1 No No Yes
Ariel.Atlantica.US Alabama USA January 2006 Pentium MMX 233 MHz 160 Mb Ubuntu Linux 1.5/256k 1 32 Yes #Atlantica.US @ IRC.Atlantica.US 1 Yes Yes No
SystemShell Missouri USA January 2006 Quad Xeon 2.66 GHz 2 Gb Ubuntu Linux 5/5 5 50 Yes #systemshell.net @ irc.systemshell.net 1 Yes Yes Yes
Blinkenshell.org Sweden August 2006 Athlon 2 GHz 1 Gb Gentoo Linux 8/1 25 50 Yes #blinkenshell @ irc.systemshell.net 1 No No Yes
Geekshells Belgium August 2005 Quad Xeon 700mhz 2 Gb FreeBSD DSL unlimited 5 Yes #geekshells @ irc.ofloo.org 8 Yes Yes Yes
HP Test Drive USA January 2005 Various, Xeon, IA64 64 Gb Various Unix & Linux ? unlimited unlimited No No 31 No No Yes
MTVeurope Germany April 2005 Duron 900 MHz 1 Gb Linux & BSD 100/100 1 unlimited Yes #shells @ irc.abjects.net 10 Yes Yes No
Nonlogic Michigan USA November 2005 Pentium 4 1.6 GHz 512 Mb Debian Linux 2/2 16 2000 No ##nonlogic @ irc.freenode.net 1 No No Yes
Polarhome Sweden 1999 various various Linux & Unix ? ? 50 No No 1 Yes No No
Rootshell Belgium August 2001 ? 512 Mb ? ? ? 5 No No 1 No No Yes
SDF USA 1987 DEC Alpha ? Netbsd ? No 5 Yes No 1 No No No
Security wraith Tennessee USA February 2006 Pentium 4 1.8 GHz 500 Mb Ubuntu Linux 1.2/384k unlimited unlimited Yes #securitywraith @ irc.systemshell.net 1 No Yes Yes
Unixclan Illinois USA 2003 Dual PA-RISC 4 Gb Debian Linux DSL unlimited unlimited Yes No 1 No Yes Yes
Provider Location Since Processor Memory OS Net BG Quota IRC Channel IPv4 IPv6 Egg GCC