<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">OVH and OVH resellers do seem to have some insane prices.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the other end, the waterfilling assumption we were working off of was a water level of 10Mbps. A server that can sustain that seems quite cheap. In fact, a quick Google search for “cheap vps” yielded this offer of a VPS with one IPv4 address and a 1Gbps port capped at 2TB/month for $0.63/month: <<a href="https://my.hiformance.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0" class="">https://my.hiformance.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0</a>>. 2TB/month is about 6Mbps sustained, which falls below the supposed water level and thus gets fully allocated to guard probability. Thus to achieve in waterfilling a total guard probability equal to that of 1Gbps relay in today’s Tor (taking into account the 1/3 loss of bandwidth to the middle position in today’s Tor), one could run 1000*(2/3)/6 ~= 112 of these at $71/month. This would be cheaper than the price below of $100/month for 1Gbps.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can we get even lower attacking either system…? :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Aaron</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 7, 2018, at 4:01 PM, Alexander Nasonov <<a href="mailto:alnsn@yandex.ru" class="">alnsn@yandex.ru</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Aaron Johnson wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Currently on OVH the best I could find for hosting just now was<br class="">$93.02/per month for 250Mbps unlimited<br class="">(<a href="https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/hosting/1801host01.xml" class="">https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/hosting/1801host01.xml</a>).<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><a href="https://www.ovh.com/world/discover/poland.xml" class="">https://www.ovh.com/world/discover/poland.xml</a><br class=""><br class="">$49.99/per month, 500 Mbps bandwidth (burst 1 Gbps ) unlimited<br class=""><br class="">My new relay runs there<br class="">http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/2235E316DF8E737081A365A1386F36035592A6BD<br class=""><br class="">but I'm not very happy with the setup because this particular offer<br class="">doesn't come with IPMI console and I had to install Proxmox Linux<br class="">and run NetBSD in a virtual machine. Clock isn't very stable even<br class="">with ntpd, I setup a cronjob to hard reset it periodically.<br class=""><br class="">Alex<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tor-dev mailing list<br class="">tor-dev@lists.torproject.org<br class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>