On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:05:53 -0800, s7r s7r@sky-ip.org wrote:
I am concerned if they will sustain Tor exits on the long term. If the Tor relay will consume more bandwidth they might start shouting about it since more virtual machines share a network port, and they will want to maximize how many VMs they can assign to a port in order to maximize profit. Not to mention if the relay will be under DDoS attack.
I share all these concerns and s'pose we'll find out eventually.
The Choopa (VULTR parent company) network infrastructure is fairly robust from what I gathered reading many many posts about the service on lowendtalk.com.
I saw many cheap cloud providers which claimed to support Tor, yet after little time just when the relay was becoming popular and known in the consensus, service terminated. Hope VULTR will not follow this way.
I think the VPS providers are more likely to fold in the face of pressure. Too big and they're likely gutless and/or compromised.
There's probably a sweet spot that's willing to "Throw down for freedom" somewhere in the middle. (Sonic.net for example)
I should have also mentioned in my previous post I put the following in /etc/tor/torrc
# Bandwidth and data caps AccountingStart day 19:45 # calculate once a day at 7:45pm AccountingMax 33 GBytes # 33GB X 30 days = 10GB shy of 1000GB/mo. RelayBandwidthRate 3000 KBytes RelayBandwidthBurst 3750 KBytes # allow higher bursts but maintain average