I have seen some people on IRC using a free shell (freeshell.de, sdf.org and so on) and I'm a bit curious about it. I know this is probably dated back from somewhere around 2000 (I was 5 years old at that moment) and it was used allot by people because of it being free.
Are people still using it and why? Why a free shell and not a extremely cheap vps with no limitations?