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Just checked them now, that is great if they will allow you to run Tor exit nodes on such cheap virtual machines. 5$ for 1000GB is a good deal for US traffic, and bitcoin accepted is an important pro. But 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 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.
On 11/23/2014 2:56 AM, Seth wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:35:18 -0800, I beatthebastards@inbox.com wrote:
So USA can be fast and cheap but beware when they agree Tor is acceptable because there are poor trade practices laws to get refunds and rights.
FWIW I spun up a Tor exit node on VULTR. I pro-actively informed them I was doing so by creating a support ticket with this text:
"Just giving you guys a heads up that I've setup a new Tor exit node.
It's using the ReducedExitPolicy detailed here:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy
The reduced exit policy has been successful in eliminating the vast majority of DMCA complains according to this Tor blog post:
https://blog.torproject.org/running-exit-node
If there are any complaints about traffic from this node, please alert me immediately so I can deal with them. I have a dedicated email setup for this purpose at tor@sysfu.com.
Regards, Seth"
The response was a simple "Thank you for the update."...so they seem pretty cool about it.
If you look at https://torstatus.rueckgr.at/ you'll see a half dozen other nodes running on VULTR.
The starter $5/mo size gets you 1000GB of bandwidth per month, can't beat that with a stick.
Another thing I like about VULTR is that you can install your own custom OS via an ISO or iPXE script. Also none of that fixed kernel nonsense I dealt with at Digital Ocean. And they accept Bitcoin.
That fact that thousands of average joe sysadmins can now spin up a powerful Tor relay or exit node, on the operating system of their choice, for $5/mo payable in Bitcoin...I think that's a big deal.