On 02/17/2015 04:01 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote:

My algorithm. Hm. This all sucks because Tor still doesn't scale across multiple cores. There should be more affordable dedicated host service providers that provide professionally overclocked servers. Liquid nitrogen isn't that expensive to generate, if you use solar power to make the electricity required more affordable.

It seems dedicated servers are becoming less and less common as virtual private servers attract cheap customers. For things like Tor that are dumb and can only bind to a single core, overclocking and overvolting that one core professionally could be a practical business venture. Unfortunately, due to the nature of mixnets like Tor, unless a large number of equivalent service providers do it, the benefit provided is minimal at best. The Tor relay pool is strongest when the hosting providers are as diverse as possible. If 51% of Tor relays are hosted by the same company and in the same country, Tor may as well not exist.