Are you an aspiring server administrator or a developer looking for a hassle-free hosting solution? Look no further than Mikrus FROG - your gateway to free VPS servers designed for learning server administration, hosting simple applications or running small-scale websites.

What is Mikrus FROG?

Project FROG offers a free VPS servers tailored for learning server administration, hosting basic applications and running small-scale websites. To access the free servers, users are required to make a one-time payment 5 PLN for identity verification purposes. Each user is entitled to one free server under the FROG service. If you need additional servers, consider exploring the paid options.

Server specifications

  • 256MB RAM + 3GB disk space
  • Root access (ability to install system packages)
  • LXC technology
  • Operating system: Linux Alpine (no possibility of change!)
  • Dedicated IPv6 address
  • Shared IPv4 address (with SSH port + 3 TCP/UDP ports for any use)
  • Server location: 🇫🇮 Finland, Helsinki
  • Connection: 1Gbps

Limitations

  • Outgoing traffic is only allowed on the following ports: 80, 443, 3306, 53, 20, 21, 22, 110, 143, 465, 1883, 7844, 51820, 27018
  • Setting up any game or voice servers is prohibited
  • Port scanning leads to an immediate ban and permanent removal of the VPS
  • Network traffic ’to’ and ‘from’ certain countries (including Asian countries) has been blocked
  • Due to the technology used (LXC unprivileged), it is impossible to:
    • install your own kernel + load your own modules
    • mount devices, including NFS resources
    • add your own SWAP memory

Shared database

Each user receives access to a shared MySQL database (with a nominal capacity of 200MB), which does not consume valuable RAM memory of your server. Access credentials can be found /root/mysql.txt

Panel phpMyAdmin is available here. The access password changes after each server reinstallation, but reinstalling the server does not delete data in the database.

Shared subdomain

If you don’t have your own domain/subdomain, you can use the domain wykr.es for testing web applications. The address format looks like this server-port_number.wykr.es

So if your VPS server is on the machine frog01, and the web application is listening on port 20100, the address of your domain is frog01-20100.wykr.es

This subdomain automatically supports HTTPS protocol and issues/renews the certificate for you. You don’t need to take care of it yourself. Your application should provide data as HTTP (not HTTPS!). This domain cannot be used for SSH/FTP connections, etc.