Hi Tim,
Thank you for your insightful questions! My responses are below:
*> Is this the cheapest zone/region for computation or bandwidth? If I am not in the US, would it be faster or cheaper for me to use a local google data center?*
Yes, it would be faster for you to use a local google data center https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/locations. I have added a variable "REGION" in the script of the uploader. You can now change the region by replacing "us-central" with another region. I have also added an explanation of how to do this in the README. Below is a list of all the regions:
REGION SUPPORTS STANDARD SUPPORTS FLEXIBLE asia-northeast1 YES YES europe-west YES NO us-central YES YES us-east1 YES YES
You can also obtain this list via the following terminal command https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/app/regions/list(with GAEuploader as your current directory): ./google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud app regions list
As you pointed out, I have set the zone to zone3 in my original code. However, it turned out that zone is relevant only when working with Google Compute Engine https://cloud.google.com/compute/, which is not the case for GAEuploader. So I have removed the line "subprocess.check_call([" ./google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud", "beta", "config", "set", "compute/zone", " zone3"])
*> Which tor bridge does the traffic for these instances go through? (Or does this set up a tor bridge as well?)* The bridge uses https://meek.bamsoftware.com/, which is on the same host as the meek-azure bridge, but not rate-limited like meek-azure is. You can find more information on Tor relays at its Atlas page: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/C20658946DD706A7A2181159A1A04C D838570D04 If you want to use a different bridge, you can edit the file appengine/reflect.go before running uploader: forwardURL = "https://meek.bamsoftware.com/"
Thanks again for your input! Please let me know if you have any more questions/feedback.
Best, Katherine Li
In our experience GAE is basically blocked in China at least. Is that your experience as well? I believe it's possible to find IPs that are unblocked, but you'd have to embed those IPs somehow into the client or integrate the scanning.
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 12:20 AM, Katherine Li katherineli.tor@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tim,
Thank you for your insightful questions! My responses are below:
Is this the cheapest zone/region for computation or bandwidth? If I am not in the US, would it be faster or cheaper for me to use a local google data center?
Yes, it would be faster for you to use a local google data center. I have added a variable "REGION" in the script of the uploader. You can now change the region by replacing "us-central" with another region. I have also added an explanation of how to do this in the README. Below is a list of all the regions:
REGION SUPPORTS STANDARD SUPPORTS FLEXIBLE asia-northeast1 YES YES europe-west YES NO us-central YES YES us-east1 YES YES
You can also obtain this list via the following terminal command (with GAEuploader as your current directory): ./google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud app regions list
As you pointed out, I have set the zone to zone3 in my original code. However, it turned out that zone is relevant only when working with Google Compute Engine, which is not the case for GAEuploader. So I have removed the line "subprocess.check_call(["./google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud", "beta", "config", "set", "compute/zone", "zone3"])
Which tor bridge does the traffic for these instances go through? (Or does this set up a tor bridge as well?)
The bridge uses https://meek.bamsoftware.com/, which is on the same host as the meek-azure bridge, but not rate-limited like meek-azure is. You can find more information on Tor relays at its Atlas page:
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/C20658946DD706A7A2181159A1A04CD838570D... If you want to use a different bridge, you can edit the file appengine/reflect.go before running uploader: forwardURL = "https://meek.bamsoftware.com/"
Thanks again for your input! Please let me know if you have any more questions/feedback.
Best, Katherine Li
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