On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 22:21:00 -0000 "Dr Gerard Bulger" 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/ 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.
Yes there is a catch, the bandwidth pricing. It is common for a fast 100 Mbit relay to transfer close to its maximum possible 30 TB/month. On Google Cloud this will cost you at least $2150/month. https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing#standard-pricing
There is a reason for OVH's dominance, on OVH you can do the above for $3.5