<div dir="ltr">Thanks everyone for telling me what I suspected. The lowest spec machine is free, and they start you off with $300 credit <div>I have not dug out their usage/bandwidth pricing, but suspect that is another catch as explained on this forum!</div><div> I think I can afford the $20 or so with proper ISPs!</div><div><br></div><div>Gerry <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 19:43, tontu <<a href="mailto:tontu@nisse.xyz">tontu@nisse.xyz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Not necessarily under a dollar, but check out the torpids sets of<br>
relays. Torpids has identified a number of hosts that offer<br>
unlimited/unmetered bandwidth for a fixed price each month:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/torpids" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/torpids</a><br>
<br>
As far as servers that are actually under $1 USD/month, there are a<br>
decent number of hosts in Russia that offer VPS services for near $1<br>
USD/month. However, the reliability on a lot of these services are<br>
abysmal (some of them oversell to the extent that VPS servers are<br>
constantly in swapped/hibernation, than actually running. You'd need to<br>
maintain an active SSH connection from another device just to keep the<br>
server awake. G-Core labs is held in fairly high regard in some circles,<br>
and is fairly cheap if you pay in Rubles (with a no forex fee credit<br>
card) but I have no experience with that particular host.<br>
<br>
tontu<br>
<br>
On 2020-11-09 11:37 a.m., niftybunny wrote:<br>
> I cant find any prices on the website. What do you get for under a dollar?<br>
> <br>
>> On 8. Nov 2020, at 23:21, Dr Gerard Bulger <<a href="mailto:gerard@bulger.co.uk" target="_blank">gerard@bulger.co.uk</a><br>
>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:gerard@bulger.co.uk" target="_blank">gerard@bulger.co.uk</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Worried about dominance of OVH for relays and exits? How about<br>
>> Google! Setting up a fast server is SO cheap on<br>
>> their <a href="https://cloud.google.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cloud.google.com/</a> <<a href="https://cloud.google.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cloud.google.com/</a>> <br>
>> platform, it is tempting to set up relays, if not exits there. <br>
>> Looking at their T&Cs they do not seem to mention TOR or banning<br>
>> running a proxy, but a generic list of don’t do bad things. I have<br>
>> two ubuntu servers doing running other programmes on there now, and so<br>
>> far cost me $0.78 with fixed IP4 addresses. I have not worked out<br>
>> how to attach IPv6 yet. <br>
>> <br>
>> Of course set DNS of the machines not to be Google’s<br>
>> <br>
>> So tell me why this is such a bad idea…<br>
>> <br>
>> Gerry<br>
>> <br>
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