I was sure I'm the only Tor-exit customer of PulseServers, it's nice to know I'm not alone.
I agree Kyle is very friendly and responsive. I think I'm going to try opticservers.com as well, they look pretty cheap and if you're saying they're exit-friendly as well, it sounds like a great option. Thanks for sharing this details.
Kind regards, Alexey Nayden
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Speak Freely when2plus2is5@riseup.net wrote:
I've got a few relays with PulseServers as well.
I really like them. I've spoken to the owner Kyle quite a few times. I accepted that he is a reseller of OVH, reluctantly, because their abuse department are fuc... Nevermind.
You could try opticservers.com, based in the UK. I have a few relays with them. The owner Joe is also very nice. From what I understand, it is all his own equipment, so no OVH. 100mbit/s unmetered at ~$7USD (it's in British currency, so whatever the conversion rate is for £4). I wouldn't suggest the 256MB ram, go for 512/1024.
If you must go with OVH, then I'd suggest buying a $3 vps as well, and don't run a relay on it (keep at least 1 vps "clean"). I lost 11 annual-subscription relays because all of the relays were blacklisted, and that was enough for them to claim the following verbatim:
"Your account was suspended because 100% of your IPs are blacklisted on multiples lists for Spam and other malicious activities. This case is closed and this decision is final."
I checked all of the relays. DanTor reported Tor relays, CBL aggregates from DanTor, SpamHaus Zen aggregates from CBL, and those were the only blacklists any of my relays were on.
Of course, I repeatedly contacted them prior to spending all of my money on annual subscriptions to make sure it was okay, and I have the emails telling me they support it, and they even commented on how important these types of projects are. But they still shut down all of my relays and kept all of my money.
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