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/Peo, FreeWebSpace.net
In my experience concerning free shell providers (which is extensive, because I'm just a big loser like that), none of them (even the ones that do allow background processes) allow eggdrop bots. They're memory intensive if everyone's running them, and the risks they open the server up to aren't worth it. Sadly, this is something you'll have to cough up for...