In my short experience of running an exit relay on a cheap vps I can say.
You can do this on less than 30 a month. It might not be true 100 mbit 24/7
but does that really matter? If you get enough interested parties it should balance out right?
For surfing/email etc 10 mbit is plenty I think? Mine averaged around 10 mbit/s 24/7 which isn't bad for a cheap unlimited
vps. Who doesn't like a fast ToR network but the reality is, those speeds are perfectly acceptable for most of what
ToR users do. If for some reason you need to upload a few gigs of leaked files, than force the network to connect to one of the faster relays. (but even still there are a lot residential connections that can't utilize the full upstream bandwidth the exit offers anyway)
If you lock the exit ports down, there should not be any DMCA issues with the provider and you.
I never was called out for issues with spam. Forum admins who deal with spam have several ways of dealing with it. So unless someone decides to use your exit for email spam and a lot of it. I wouldn't worry about the spam shutting
down any exit relays. Haven't read of that on the list yet actually. DMCA will indeed make your provider not like you.
in closing, don't discredit the cheaper solutions. They do work just fine and you don't need a pocket of money to throw at something.
Telling the provider what you plan on doing and educating them works wonders as well. It has for me at least.



On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Nils Vogels <bacardicoke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Mike Perry <mikeperry@torproject.org> wrote:
Thus spake kupo@damnfbi.tk (kupo@damnfbi.tk):

> Hey all,
> Have you contemplated sending this over to the hackerspaces list?

There exists THE list for hackerspaces? Well hot damn. Are these them:
http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/

Yeah, that's the one :-)
 
Is there a specific sub-list we should focus on? Announce? Discuss?
Other?

Probably the main list, possibly discuss. 
 

Also, how do we recognize reputable Hackerspaces from "Sketchy bunch of
d00dz who think it will be totally awesome fun to pwn a bunch of Tor
users?" Should we check for previous reliable Tor relays from them?
Should we just not care?

It's funny this comes up now :) I know for a fact that most Dutch hackerspaces either run a tor node, or have a member running a Tor node. Their motives have never been questioned, so why start now :)

In most countries there is a foundation covering multiple hackerspaces, these are usually where you'd want to start. If you need some more contacts in the Benelux and UK area, I can lend a hand.
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