Education plan

A little extra for students and schools.

Sign up with your school, college or university email and your free servers get a bit more memory, disk and CPU. It is not a lot, but it is something, and it costs nothing.

Sign up with your school emailSchool not recognised?

School not recognised? Ask us.

Message us on Discord, or email us from your school or university address so we can see it is yours. Once we have checked, we turn the plan on for your account by hand.

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The plan

Free, with a bit more room

  • Still free

    No card, no trial and no expiry. It is the free tier with a little more room, not a discount on a paid plan.

  • Automatic

    Confirm a school or university address and it applies straight away, to the free servers you already have and every new one.

  • A bit more of everything

    More memory, more disk and more CPU than a standard free server, though less than a paid plan.

  • Shows on your servers

    Your free servers are labelled Education in your panel, so you can see the plan is on.

How it works

Three steps, and the first one is your email.

  1. 1

    Use your school email

    Sign up with it, or change the address on your account page to it. Your servers and everything else stay as they are.

  2. 2

    Confirm it

    Follow the link we send to that address. A new address always has to be confirmed before it counts, whoever you are.

  3. 3

    Get the extra room

    Your free servers are resized within a few minutes, keeping all their files. New free servers start at the bigger size.

Which addresses count

Addresses ending in .ac.uk or .sch.uk in the UK and .edu in the US, and the education domains of many other countries, such as .edu.au, .ac.nz, .ac.jp, .ac.in, .ac.za and .edu.br. These are domains only schools, colleges and universities can register, so they tell us something real.

Many universities, including most in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and Canada, use an ordinary domain that anybody could register, so we do not recognise them automatically. That is not us saying no.

Your school is not recognised?

Ask us on our Discord server, or email us from your school or university address so we can see it is really yours. Tell us where you study or teach, and once we have checked, we turn the plan on for your account by hand. It then stays on whatever address you use.

We may ask you to show you are still a student or still work there, and we take the plan away from accounts that were given it on a false claim.

When it ends

If you change your email to an address that does not count, the plan ends and your free servers go back to the standard free size. Your servers and their files are kept; only their limits change. Your paid servers, if you have any, are never affected.

Not a student? The free tier is the same for everybody else, and needs no card either.

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FAQ

Questions

How much more do I get?

Somewhere between a standard free server and the Standard paid plan. The exact memory, disk and CPU are shown on this page and on your account page. It is a small step up, not a paid plan for free.

Do I get more free servers?

No. You can have the same number of free servers as everybody else. Each one is just a little bigger.

Does it work with a school email that is not a university?

Yes, where the school has an education domain, such as .sch.uk in the UK. Otherwise ask us on Discord, or email us from your school address, and we can check it by hand.

I have left. Do I keep it?

It lasts as long as your account uses a confirmed education address. Alumni addresses do not count.

Can I still buy a paid plan?

Yes. A paid server gets the paid plan's resources, the same as for anybody else, and does not use your free allowance.