Hi Roger, list
This differs a lot, please all keep in mind, that we get supported by some of our hosters through cheaper pricing, etc. I'll try to point that out. 565€ for 100TB outbound traffic on GBit, inbound is free and a second node sponsored by them. 2 Tor nodes running on each axigy $199 for unmetered GBit (currently down due to law enforcement). This price is half of their regular rate. limehost/voxility 104€ for unmetered, shared GBit Three Tor nodes running on it Our 100mbit nodes are actually all sponsored. One by psilo.fr, four by defaultroute.net We currently only use hosters, that SWIP IPs to us, as we've not made good experiences otherwise. All of our current hosters are very tolerant when it comes to abuses and can be considered stable (not counting in technical difficulties that we've had with one node). For some of our nodes it would make sense, for others not so much. The problem we face as a non profit is, that while we get lots of donations not all of them (and especially not the larger ones, as those usually are one-time) are plannable. So essentially this would be a great opportunity for us (assumibg, that this would run uninterrupted for more than a year) to get a larger amount of long term plannable funding. Depends on what you mean. In the sense of getting more servers: Yes, definitely. For the sake of diversity it is hard to estimate, though, as nearly every ISP has a different pricing and different reliability. It would probably be hard to find another hoster in the limehost/voxility pricerange, but I think that somewhere in between axigy and nforce is certainly doable for GBit, which would give 2-3 Tor nodes. Definitely. As I've mentioned in my other email, we've got an offer for 10GBit unmetered@750€, which is kind of sweet spot performance/buck wise and I guess, that it could handle 8-12 Tor nodes performance wise to satisfy the pipe. It would be a large number of high performance nodes run by just one operator, though, so I'm unsure if it really is that great idea :-( If we're not doing that we'll look into getting at least one other gbit node, though.
One question, that immediately came to my mind was: How will this affect other donors? Only time will tell, I guess and I hope that people will realize, that it is just an additional incentive to get operators to run reliable, fast nodes. What about legal stuff? We haven't had legal problems, so far. We're operating out of germany and have a cool lawyer, but what about others? How do they tackle the legal situation, what about covering the financial burden, if they get in legal trouble over Tor. In other words: Do we need a Tor legal fund to go with operator funding or will the community be willing/committed/able to absorb the risks. Julian
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