On 28/11/2014 02:54, Syrup-tan wrote:
Turns out the colocation costs $672/year for the network, and another $780/year for power, so I don’t think Voxility is very feasible for an exit node without bargaining with them.
This isn't all that expensive for colo; it's just not on the bargain end either. Very few providers are able to offer high bandwidths at forgettable cost. And colocation is not very price-efficient if you're looking to house a single midrange server - providers buy their dedicated servers in bulk, count on reselling old hosts and have less management overhead with their homogenous infrastructure, and those cost savings trickle down to their customers.
If anyone knows of a good way of finding high-bandwidth budget dedicated servers (a search term or a list of providers, for example), please share. I expected there to be more of a market for this kind of thing than I've found.I recently rented a dedi from Online.net <http://Online.net> (http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-xc) which offers unmetered b/w, but I’ve heard bad things about the network. I’ll do some testing this weekend on whether or not I can get the full 150Mb/s link.
Online S.A.S. used to have a poor network, but they recently (some months ago, I think) got a new datacenter that seems to fare much better; this is also when they stopped restricting Tor nodes in their ToS. I'm speculating that any reports of poor network performance since then are from customers on their cheapest servers, which are equipped with VIA Nano CPUs and probably aren't able to sustain high network throughput in many cases.
That said, Online's network has several dozen Tor relays already (including mine, admittedly), more than any other network. Yet they have stated they do not like Tor (see the GoodBadISPs page) and if you run an exit they will kick you for receiving too many abuse complaints.
On Nov 27, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Libertas <libertas@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:libertas@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 11/25/2014 02:29 PM, Syrup-tan wrote:The colocation isn’t cheap to say the least, and it only gives 5TB/month unless we want to pay more per month;This may the largest logistical problem I've encountered when looking for dedicated servers intended to be exit nodes. For most providers, even expensive and powerful servers (16+ GB of RAM, 8+ cores) will come with 2-10 TB of monthly bandwidth. Because much cheaper servers can saturate a 100 Mbps link (IIRC) and thereby greatly exceed those limits, buying such packages just doesn't make sense. The additional bandwidth prices are usually strangely high, too. The pricing is often progressive - each additional terabyte costs more than the last. If anyone knows of a good way of finding high-bandwidth budget dedicated servers (a search term or a list of providers, for example), please share. I expected there to be more of a market for this kind of thing than I've found. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUd9JIAAoJELxHvGCsI27NrXkQAJrXBrP7gdtQAyU0s7qukHaA I2armmeyEkPMWYwPWlH3MAONgqthM8HhvClf1bgRcVF+EmkGoX8bWxQFB3Lmafq/ ewbdKqnFa1m3KXUOZ1qZCJFPUP/8dBgpRbaWvwB5qUzKxXkdsDm/aaRuoGnu0NHr KhiCoslwJ5AhbB0p2JSz/lrKBL08wRHzlcBr4BWTNff5UMkXh3A+P3XJ8+yaGka2 tLP1IAvP5H/PIUv/Mvw+l+5OWgUZcmDjKOkq/F1rFpJaEaYW9ZJ2dYXzlEUdUWWy u4LpT5K8DolfdxtTjznMydqG/48WBLoYBygJwXe7uHUkj0vz/5l0VTu9EDO1ihAo FdjMO34GYUoXmiFj9J0Nq51JGs6HAtXOy3c+0+AcX0b21X5JpZ/Bq2qbjqxwMDOU oWGSdAyHdZVap6tT2w/WQOularC1A13QdLJodQkehYFLKfZJjQmsI9uCGqWvZXSi 2kI9NNshxXZ8ZZ/iPkUV+F2kka5HMoaLfc+IPrR6aUFzOigrsJrG69qwOxYmworu VQ9YW6rkKhKVhob9AAsuvyCC/pHCJRIaoJMyQ/jmSY8gjOOoZVJhPGzjuyQTCl5y eUyRmDmpxJv8xzRG0TdW3+x9nD0E77pzlwiNUnz3P9OY0hLXuWIAQTuBb/7dw5p3 5AZhkQ+qziv/sHIXjjuo =41yu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays_______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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