A report on running a bridge on google cloud
if you want to run a bridge, Ionos is your new best friend, shitty VPS für 1 Euro a month. It is shit but runs a bridge perfectly.
On 26. Apr 2021, at 19:40, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi List,
So for a little bit over a week now, I have been running a bridge on Google Cloud and it has charged less then $5. So, while too expensive for running relays, it seems to be an ok service for running bridges on.
I think we need as much diversity as possible so having nodes running on as many different providers as possible is good.
Cheers.
--Keifer
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks a US cloud is the worst case for a Tor relay. Most likely daily VM snapshots directly to NSA. ;-) ¹William mentioned the interesting WEDOS DC1 data center to him beforehand. ²There are only 8 relays so far. ¹https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-April/019532.html ²https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS197019 On Mittwoch, 28. April 2021 12:41:31 CEST abuse department wrote:
if you want to run a bridge, Ionos is your new best friend, shitty VPS für 1 Euro a month. It is shit but runs a bridge perfectly.
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yeah hosting in Germany is much better. With the new laws in place the BND is happy to deliver all Tor traffic from Frankfurt to the NSA.
On 29. Apr 2021, at 16:25, lists@for-privacy.net wrote:
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks a US cloud is the worst case for a Tor relay. Most likely daily VM snapshots directly to NSA. ;-)
¹William mentioned the interesting WEDOS DC1 data center to him beforehand. ²There are only 8 relays so far. ¹https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-April/019532.html ²https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS197019
On Mittwoch, 28. April 2021 12:41:31 CEST abuse department wrote:
if you want to run a bridge, Ionos is your new best friend, shitty VPS für 1 Euro a month. It is shit but runs a bridge perfectly.
-- ╰_╯ Ciao Marco!
Debian GNU/Linux
It's free software and it gives you freedom!
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On 4/26/21 1:40 PM, Keifer Bly wrote:
So for a little bit over a week now, I have been running a bridge on Google Cloud and it has charged less then $5. So, while too expensive for running relays, it seems to be an ok service for running bridges on.
Is $0.085/GB (egress) accurate[0]? Meaning you sent ~60 GB of traffic? That sounds really really expensive, even for a bridge. As soon as your bridge saw more meaningful usage, I would expect you to need to take it down. Or maybe your pockets are deeper than mine ;) [0]: https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing#standard-pricing
For the last 3 days its been 50 cents, whereas usually vps are $20 per month at least. I am wondering whats the minimal amount of traffic a bridge should push to be useful? I am thinking of limiting the tor bridge traffic per month. Thanks. --Keifer On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 2:12 PM Matt Traudt <pastly@torproject.org> wrote:
On 4/26/21 1:40 PM, Keifer Bly wrote:
So for a little bit over a week now, I have been running a bridge on Google Cloud and it has charged less then $5. So, while too expensive for running relays, it seems to be an ok service for running bridges on.
Is $0.085/GB (egress) accurate[0]? Meaning you sent ~60 GB of traffic?
That sounds really really expensive, even for a bridge. As soon as your bridge saw more meaningful usage, I would expect you to need to take it down.
Or maybe your pockets are deeper than mine ;)
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