Re: [tor-relays] Home broadband - worth running a relay?

Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Home broadband - worth running a relay?

From: Alistair Ferguson <ferguson.alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:39:48 +0100

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Hi Guys,

I would second the cheap VPS option.

In the past I have run a relay at home and on a number of cheap VPS providers with only one having an issue with my request to run a relay.

Living in the UK I found the low upload speed and dynamic IP made the home relay perform rather poorly while having a notable affect on my home web browsing.

Having a cheap VPS also offers the advantage of a remote development platform, the possibility of hosting your own website (a socks proxy has been pretty handy at bypassing my works web proxy).

As previously stated, lowendbox is a great place to start looking for one I would suggest going dutch as they offer great performance/bandwidth for your £.

BR,

Alistair.

On 12 July 2013 14:33, mick <mbm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:22:44 +0100
mick <mbm@xxxxxxxxxx> allegedly wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:43:00 +0100
> Nick <tor-relays@xxxxxxxxx> allegedly wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have a reasonable ADSL connection, and a little always-on
> > server. The bandwidth is in the region of 2Mib/s down, something
> > less up (maybe 256Kib/s). Is it useful for me to run a tor relay
> > with this bandwidth? I'd like to run one which isn't an exit, at
> > least for now.

> Nowadays you can get a useful amount of bandwidth (1-2 TiB pcm) on a
> reasonably specced VM (512 Mb RAM, 1 core, 20-40 GB disk) very cheaply
> (on the order of 5-10 UKP pcm, or much less if you shop around). Take
> a look at lowendbox.com for some ideas of offers on cheap VPS. Then do
> some research on the suppliers, contact those you shortlist and be
> open about what you intend to do.

Forgot to add - take a look at http://www.edis.at/en/home for example.
They have reasonable offerings (but limited on the KVM option) in a
variety of countries and I have already established that they would
be comfortable with non-exit tor relays.

Mick

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