<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=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 22, 2014, at 4:21 PM, s7r <<a href="mailto:s7r@sky-ip.org" class="">s7r@sky-ip.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><br class="">Depending on your budget, Voxility has a datacenter in the US.<br class="">Unfortunately they provide only enterprise class servers with prices<br class="">directly proportional to the class. Maybe we can manage to pool $ in<br class="">order to create a bigger node with this provider if we find enough people.<br class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I’d be interested in chipping into this.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Would this server suitable for an exit node? Might be a bit on the slow side with 2GB of DDR2 and a Pentium D 940</div><div><a href="https://www.voxility.com/shop/hosting/discounted/Supermicro-5015M-LFF" class="">https://www.voxility.com/shop/hosting/discounted/Supermicro-5015M-LFF</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Price-wise it would be ~$200 to buy the server (after purchasing a disk for it), $70 setup fee, and $56/month to colocate in Los Angeles or Miami.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That’d be ~$950 for the first year, and $672/year for the following years.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The colocation isn’t cheap to say the least, and it only gives 5TB/month unless we want to pay more per month;</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.voxility.com/shop/colocation/los-angeles/Equipment-Colocation-in-Los-Angeles-(Equinix-LA1)#Network" class="">https://www.voxility.com/shop/colocation/los-angeles/Equipment-Colocation-in-Los-Angeles-%28Equinix-LA1%29#Network</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Syrup-tan~</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 22, 2014, at 4:21 PM, s7r <<a href="mailto:s7r@sky-ip.org" class="">s7r@sky-ip.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br class="">Hash: SHA1<br class=""><br class="">I also share the thought that more US exit power is welcomed in the<br class="">Tor network.<br class=""><br class="">However, the fact that there is more exit power in the EU compared to<br class="">the US has nothing to do with the legal implications of running a Tor<br class="">exit, it's as simple as bandwidth is a lot cheaper in the EU than in<br class="">the US. And for small relays run at home, US, as opposite to the EU,<br class="">has asymmetric internet lines, with download speed considerably higher<br class="">than upload speed - they think for a residential line you should only<br class="">consume content, not create. Since a Tor relay needs to be able to<br class="">receive as much as it sends, this is a bottleneck.<br class=""><br class="">Depending on your budget, Voxility has a datacenter in the US.<br class="">Unfortunately they provide only enterprise class servers with prices<br class="">directly proportional to the class. Maybe we can manage to pool $ in<br class="">order to create a bigger node with this provider if we find enough people.<br class=""><br class="">On 11/23/2014 2:10 AM, Steve Snyder wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 11/21/2014 07:08 PM, SiNA Rabbani wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear Relay Operators,<br class=""><br class="">I noticed there are very few US based exit nodes in the network.<br class="">And more and more people are jumping on the same set of AS<br class="">numbers in Europe.<br class=""></blockquote>[snip]<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">If anyone is interested in running fast Tor Exit nodes at Rethem <br class="">Hosting. Feel free to contact me directly, so I can make proper<br class="">referral/introductions. Rethem Hosting is also able to provide<br class="">hosting In IceLand, but you get the most bang for your buck in<br class="">the US datacenter.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I am interested in running a fast exit node in the US.<br class=""><br class="">That said, there is precious little information on Rethem's web<br class="">site (<a href="http://www.rethemhosting.net/" class="">http://www.rethemhosting.net/</a>) to indicate that they would be<br class="">open to that. They don't say anything about what plans might be<br class="">offered, where the server would be located, or what forms of<br class="">payment are accepted.<br class=""><br class="">Their web site is non-SSL and the only method of contact is via<br class="">the notoriously insecure e-mail. I like graphics of binary numbers<br class="">and circuit board traces as much as the next guy, but their site<br class="">doesn't give much information to the potential customer.<br class=""><br class="">And with your servers running for less than 3 days apiece, I think<br class="">it is too early to say if Rethem is a good venue for hosting a Tor<br class="">node.<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing<br class="">list <a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a> <br class=""><a href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays" class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays</a><br class=""></blockquote>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br class="">Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32)<br class=""><br class="">iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUcSiMAAoJEIN/pSyBJlsRIikH/R0ikZ8flX2FyuezmgwcGAvM<br class="">NPxQ4tjzb2nHLH64woKch4dr3hAfJDU62lZXcOkBiRq8PcotojZYuPkIz6SLzn4d<br class="">6WU0oVqyvBd1PhtaCQIDh+3kxs9LOOM+FDkhnbvgi1ma9MbvrYfc1CpvyE1coTUc<br class="">ulWN7Cw9N7A/aYDnOGAyOM45oXgANWI2Ha48g7T+oZuniYeTnC1qQB7FnWjx0ud6<br class="">PSTD8zaZTB/vVlxfqVS/dS2H3kbXYuKHZe3Yoz5WCzf8GDR5WilrowivfNdQoezQ<br class="">ZxvBS7F/lc5cDQ5fZIJxi0fuH6Hq20AWWvTwOOLzcdqUPzoSA6PF3z+Ir87KcN8=<br class="">=1e8/<br class="">-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tor-relays mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>