On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:37:52 +0000 mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
on one site. The fourth "prohibited usage" item, lumps Tor in with Phishing Sites and Proxy Scanners.
There are two reasons why VPS providers disallow Tor:
1) They don't *really* want to provide the amount of bandwidth they advertise (i.e. their network is highly oversold), and Tor is known as a very high bandwidth consumption application.
2) No VPS provider will let you run an exit node; and some just disallow Tor wholesale in fear that a user might run one due to misinterpreting finer details about Tor in the AUP, and/or accidentally.
I've told them I'm disappointed, but getting UK based VPSs with useful amounts of bandwidth for tor is getting harder.
I don't think you should care all that much that your Tor middle node needs to be in any specific country. My current recommendations would be:
1) DigitalOcean in NY and Amsterdam, unmetered 1 Gbit VPS for $5/mo (actually Tor can't use it all due to maxing out the CPU at ~25+25 mbit), did about 15TB a month with no issues -- http://www.digitalocean.com/
2) PrismaVPS in the US, 4TB/mo at 1 Gbit for $5.
Also keep an eye for unmetered or high-bandwidth VPS offers and reviews on http://www.lowendbox.com/ and it's discussion forum http://www.lowendtalk.com/