[tor-relays] about the balls of steel level of relay nodes

[mick]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 20:25:08 -0500
Andrew Lewman <andrew at torproject.org> allegedly wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:17:59 -0700
> Nicolas Bock <nicolasbock at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was running a tor exit node until I came across this article:
> > 
> > http://calumog.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/why-you-need-balls-of-steel-to-operate-a-tor-exit-node/
> > 
> > While I don't live in the UK, I live in the US, I believe that the
> > situation here has eroded to a point where running an exit node
> > requires the mentioned balls of steel, which I admittedly don't
> > have.
> 
> Well, then submitting to chilling effects isn't going to make the
> situation better.  People in the UK continue to run exit nodes, I
> believe there are now more of them since that blog post.

I live in the UK and host (currently) three exit nodes in the UK on
VMs at two separate datacentres. I have been running exit nodes in this
manner since (initially) June 2009 at one site and latterly since
december 2009 (when I moved my first node to a higher bandwidth
server). In that time I have had just one complaint (about possible
email spam).

I do not run tor on my domestic ADSL line. But that is largely for
performance reasons than any other. 

I would encourage others in the UK (and elsewhere) to run exit nodes
on VMs now. They can be ridiculously cheap. My most expensive node
costs £12.00 pcm and the cheapest I purchased recently for less than
£50.00 for a calendar year. In addition, it is relatively easy
to rent a VM in a country other than the one in which you live.
However, if anyone wants to help tor and is concerned about running a
node themselves, then I suggest that they take up Moritz's offer to run
a node for them at torsevers.net.

Mick

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