[tor-dev] Proposal Waterfilling

[A. Johnson]

Sorry, that link should have been <https://my.hiformance.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=165 <https://my.hiformance.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=165>>.

Best,
Aaron

> On Mar 7, 2018, at 4:18 PM, A. Johnson <aaron.m.johnson at nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> 
> OVH and OVH resellers do seem to have some insane prices.
> 
> On the other end, the waterfilling assumption we were working off of was a water level of 10Mbps. A server that can sustain that seems quite cheap. In fact, a quick Google search for “cheap vps” yielded this offer of a VPS with one IPv4 address and a 1Gbps port capped at 2TB/month for $0.63/month: <https://my.hiformance.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0 <https://my.hiformance.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0>>. 2TB/month is about 6Mbps sustained, which falls below the supposed water level and thus gets fully allocated to guard probability. Thus to achieve in waterfilling a total guard probability equal to that of 1Gbps relay in today’s Tor (taking into account the 1/3 loss of bandwidth to the middle position in today’s Tor), one could run 1000*(2/3)/6 ~= 112 of these at $71/month. This would be cheaper than the price below of $100/month for 1Gbps.
> 
> Can we get even lower attacking either system…? :-)
> 
> Best,
> Aaron
> 
>> On Mar 7, 2018, at 4:01 PM, Alexander Nasonov <alnsn at yandex.ru <mailto:alnsn at yandex.ru>> wrote:
>> 
>> Aaron Johnson wrote:
>>> Currently on OVH the best I could find for hosting just now was
>>> $93.02/per month for 250Mbps unlimited
>>> (https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/hosting/1801host01.xml <https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/hosting/1801host01.xml>).
>> 
>> https://www.ovh.com/world/discover/poland.xml <https://www.ovh.com/world/discover/poland.xml>
>> 
>> $49.99/per month, 500 Mbps bandwidth (burst   1 Gbps ) unlimited
>> 
>> My new relay runs there
>> http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/2235E316DF8E737081A365A1386F36035592A6BD
>> 
>> but I'm not very happy with the setup because this particular offer
>> doesn't come with IPMI console and I had to install Proxmox Linux
>> and run NetBSD in a virtual machine. Clock isn't very stable even
>> with ntpd, I setup a cronjob to hard reset it periodically.
>> 
>> Alex
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