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