TOR Services on Microsoft Azure
Hi. I read some pages on the internet about TOR-servers on cloud-services like Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. Just gave it a try on Azure and it works like a charm! You can sign up for free and receive credits worth ~200$. With this credits you can safely run an unlimited VPS for about 4-5 month. https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/0534295ACFD5A84312183B41D3FB275E9ADD9E E2 i think im going to give Amazon AWS also a try J regards, volker
Volker, Thank you for sharing! Is Azure able to run the latest Tor release of 0.2.8.8? You're running 0.2.4.27 at this time. Thanks! John On Oct 1, 2016, at 00:55, Volker Mink <volker.mink@gmx.de<mailto:volker.mink@gmx.de>> wrote: Hi. I read some pages on the internet about TOR-servers on cloud-services like Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. Just gave it a try on Azure and it works like a charm! You can sign up for free and receive credits worth ~200$. With this credits you can safely run an unlimited VPS for about 4-5 month. https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/0534295ACFD5A84312183B41D3FB275E9ADD9E... i think im going to give Amazon AWS also a try :) regards, volker _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Hi John. I think this depends on the distribution used. Of course you can use own distributions and images. I used the standard ubuntu which was suggested from Azure and did nothing than installing TOR (apt-get install tor), modifing the torrc-file and configured the port-forwarding. Thats all. -volker Von: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces@lists.torproject.org] Im Auftrag von John Ricketts Gesendet: Samstag, 1. Oktober 2016 11:46 An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Betreff: Re: [tor-relays] TOR Services on Microsoft Azure Volker, Thank you for sharing! Is Azure able to run the latest Tor release of 0.2.8.8? You're running 0.2.4.27 at this time. Thanks! John On Oct 1, 2016, at 00:55, Volker Mink <volker.mink@gmx.de <mailto:volker.mink@gmx.de> > wrote: Hi. I read some pages on the internet about TOR-servers on cloud-services like Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. Just gave it a try on Azure and it works like a charm! You can sign up for free and receive credits worth ~200$. With this credits you can safely run an unlimited VPS for about 4-5 month. https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/0534295ACFD5A84312183B41D3FB275E9ADD9E E2 i think im going to give Amazon AWS also a try J regards, volker _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org <mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
I used the standard ubuntu which was suggested from Azure and did nothing than installing TOR (apt-get install tor), modifing the torrc-file and configured the port-forwarding. Thats all.
So I guess you run Ubuntu 14.04 (not 16.04). It is recommended to use the torproject debian package repository (also supporting Ubuntu 14.04) to get the latest version: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en
Tor on amazon is not allowed anymore :( Does Azure allow exits? Markus Sent from my iPad
On 1 Oct 2016, at 09:54, Volker Mink <volker.mink@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi.
I read some pages on the internet about TOR-servers on cloud-services like Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. Just gave it a try on Azure and it works like a charm! You can sign up for free and receive credits worth ~200$. With this credits you can safely run an unlimited VPS for about 4-5 month. https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/0534295ACFD5A84312183B41D3FB275E9ADD9E...
i think im going to give Amazon AWS also a try J
regards, volker
Awhile ago Tor blocked relays from running on Amazon AWS (after there was an attach that originated from Amazon-hosted nodes). Google GCE was also blocked. See this thread about it from last year when I tried to run a node on google's cloud: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-August/007681.html On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 1:16 PM, nusenu <nusenu@openmailbox.org> wrote:
Tor on amazon is not allowed anymore :(
That statement is rather generic, and I doubt it
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Awhile ago Tor blocked relays from running on Amazon AWS (after there was an attach that originated from Amazon-hosted nodes). Google GCE was also blocked. See this thread about it from last year when I tried to run a node on google's cloud: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-August/007681.html
Yes I remember that thread, but that was some time ago and since I got several emails from ornetradar about someone adding relays on amazon (in IE) in September 2016 [1] I still doubt that amazon or the dir auths are blocking relays from being added there. you can also use https://compass.torproject.org to find amazon-hosted relays by AS [1] https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ornetradar/2016-09/msg00118.html https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ornetradar/2016-09/msg00087.html https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ornetradar/2016-09/msg00100.html https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ornetradar/2016-09/msg00104.html
The BEST relay I can see is https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=3181f36ce226b30bd2845872... with whopping 776 KByte/sec 95% of the amazon relays are dead. zero traffic. Markus 2016-10-04 21:53 GMT+02:00 nusenu <nusenu@openmailbox.org>:
Awhile ago Tor blocked relays from running on Amazon AWS (after there was an attach that originated from Amazon-hosted nodes). Google GCE was also blocked. See this thread about it from last year when I tried to run a node on google's cloud: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-August/007681.html
Yes I remember that thread, but that was some time ago and since I got several emails from ornetradar about someone adding relays on amazon (in IE) in September 2016 [1] I still doubt that amazon or the dir auths are blocking relays from being added there.
you can also use https://compass.torproject.org to find amazon-hosted relays by AS
[1] https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ornetradar/2016-09/msg00118.html https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ornetradar/2016-09/msg00087.html https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ornetradar/2016-09/msg00100.html https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ornetradar/2016-09/msg00104.html
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/free-account-faq/ What do I get when I sign up for a free account? You get an Azure account, plus a $200 credit to spend on Azure services for 30 days. You can use this $200 credit to try out any combination of Azure services, exploring our cloud for free. What happens with the services I created after 30 days? The $200 credit expires after 30 days, and you can either let any services you’ve deployed be decommissioned (and you won’t have access to them anymore) or transition to a Pay-As-You-Go Azure subscription, paying only for what you use moving forward. = one (massiv) VPS for one month :/ 2016-10-01 9:54 GMT+02:00 Volker Mink <volker.mink@gmx.de>:
Hi.
I read some pages on the internet about TOR-servers on cloud-services like Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS.
Just gave it a try on Azure and it works like a charm!
You can sign up for free and receive credits worth ~200$. With this credits you can safely run an unlimited VPS for about 4-5 month.
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/0534295ACFD5A84312183B41D3FB275E9ADD9E...
i think im going to give Amazon AWS also a try J
regards,
volker
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