Tag: Keepalive Risk

Forty-One Days of Grace: The Sudden Death Timeline of InstaBox Free Five, and the Lesson That Pause Is Not Freeze

The owner had just used an invite code to open five machines and asked whether to keep them alive around the clock. Checking official docs found the decisive fact: the platform itself provides a proper never-suspend switch, while the activity-lease endpoint the third-party script uses is undocumented in the public API — one is an official knob, the other a hole outside the docs. Checking the company public messages, the answer was more direct than any estimate: the free five were not going to be cut someday — they were cut on October 20, with legacy accounts kept until December 1 — 41 days left. The reason was abuse (bulk-registered mining crushed a node), and with 75 percent of beta users running one active machine, cutting to one hurts most people not at all. The true shape of pause is microVM suspension: memory and processes kept, commands and SSH auto-resume, no billing while paused.