Re: [tor-relays] VPS Hardware Specification & Advice
Hi, i just saw this post on the web archive and felt I can contribute something here so I finally registered. Maybe this reply will not be correctly recognized to the thread, sorry. The VPS specs you posted should be more than enough - but the price is too expensive! I currently run about 20 Tor relays on cheap VPS all around the world: http://globe.rndm.de/#/search/query=torpids Basically I just care for the bandwidth/included traffic when choosing a VPS. 256MB RAM is enough, disk space doesn't matter at all. Tor doesn't scale that well with CPU cores so 1 core is ok. For only 1 or 2 of my VPS the CPU is the bottleneck (at about 20-30MBit/s), but most are fast enough. Most cheap VPS are based on the OpenVZ virtualization which limits you to their old kernel and sometimes they limit the number of tcp connections (see "cat /proc/user_beancounters"). KVM or Xen virtualisation is better because you have more control on the VM. Most VPS providers add up the incoming and outgoing bandwidth, meaning that you might be able to just send about 500GB with your 1TB plan. For example with a VPS from www.jiffybox.de for 15€ per month it is possible to push more than 1TB PER DAY(!) (and not per month as with the 18€ plan you mentioned). OVH just released a server for £2,99 per month with unlimited 100MBit/s as well: https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml Other typical offers are like 10TB for 10$ or 20MBit/s unlimited for 3€. Good places to find cheap VPS deals: http://www.lowendbox.com/ and http://lowendtalk.com/categories/offers http://www.wjunction.com/46-vps http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104 Best, Torpids
Many thanks for your reply & really useful to know that I can find better value for my money which, in turn, equals a larger number of tor relays that I can afford to run. My plan was to start out with a budget of approximately 20 Euros and if all goes well increase to around 50 Euros per month so plenty of scope for many tor relays at these prices. On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:40:11 +0200, Tor Pids <torpids@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
i just saw this post on the web archive and felt I can contribute something here so I finally registered. Maybe this reply will not be correctly recognized to the thread, sorry.
The VPS specs you posted should be more than enough - but the price is too expensive!
I currently run about 20 Tor relays on cheap VPS all around the world: http://globe.rndm.de/#/search/query=torpids
Basically I just care for the bandwidth/included traffic when choosing a VPS. 256MB RAM is enough, disk space doesn't matter at all. Tor doesn't scale that well with CPU cores so 1 core is ok. For only 1 or 2 of my VPS the CPU is the bottleneck (at about 20-30MBit/s), but most are fast enough. Most cheap VPS are based on the OpenVZ virtualization which limits you to their old kernel and sometimes they limit the number of tcp connections (see "cat /proc/user_beancounters"). KVM or Xen virtualisation is better because you have more control on the VM. Most VPS providers add up the incoming and outgoing bandwidth, meaning that you might be able to just send about 500GB with your 1TB plan.
For example with a VPS from www.jiffybox.de for 15€ per month it is possible to push more than 1TB PER DAY(!) (and not per month as with the 18€ plan you mentioned). OVH just released a server for £2,99 per month with unlimited 100MBit/s as well: https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml Other typical offers are like 10TB for 10$ or 20MBit/s unlimited for 3€.
Good places to find cheap VPS deals: http://www.lowendbox.com/ and http://lowendtalk.com/categories/offers http://www.wjunction.com/46-vps http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104
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On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:40:11 +0200 Tor Pids <torpids@yahoo.com> allegedly wrote:
The VPS specs you posted should be more than enough - but the price is too expensive!
Seconded. You could easily get 1TiB pcm for < 5 UKP (i.e. around 5 euros or 5 USD. 7-10 euros should buy you 2 TiB. I can recommend digitalocean.com at 5 USD. They have offerings in Amsterdam, SanFrancisco and NYC. They are happy to allow relays, less happy with exits. HTH Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mick Morgan gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312 http://baldric.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 21:23:13 +0100, mick <mbm@rlogin.net> wrote:
On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:40:11 +0200 Tor Pids <torpids@yahoo.com> allegedly wrote:
The VPS specs you posted should be more than enough - but the price is too expensive!
Seconded. You could easily get 1TiB pcm for < 5 UKP (i.e. around 5 euros or 5 USD. 7-10 euros should buy you 2 TiB.
I can recommend digitalocean.com at 5 USD. They have offerings in Amsterdam, SanFrancisco and NYC. They are happy to allow relays, less happy with exits.
Thanks for the recommendation!
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