[tor-relays] VPSes for Tor (was Re: Disappointing AUP - (was Re: DDOS?))

[Roman Mamedov]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:37:52 +0000
mick <mbm at rlogin.net> wrote:

> on one site. The fourth "prohibited usage" item, lumps Tor in with
> Phishing Sites and Proxy Scanners.

There are two reasons why VPS providers disallow Tor:

1) They don't *really* want to provide the amount of bandwidth they advertise
(i.e. their network is highly oversold), and Tor is known as a very high
bandwidth consumption application.

2) No VPS provider will let you run an exit node; and some just disallow Tor
wholesale in fear that a user might run one due to misinterpreting finer
details about Tor in the AUP, and/or accidentally.

> I've told them I'm disappointed, but getting UK based VPSs with useful
> amounts of bandwidth for tor is getting harder. 

I don't think you should care all that much that your Tor middle node needs to
be in any specific country. My current recommendations would be:

1) DigitalOcean in NY and Amsterdam, unmetered 1 Gbit VPS for $5/mo (actually
Tor can't use it all due to maxing out the CPU at ~25+25 mbit), did about 15TB
a month with no issues -- http://www.digitalocean.com/

2) PrismaVPS in the US, 4TB/mo at 1 Gbit for $5.

Also keep an eye for unmetered or high-bandwidth VPS offers and reviews on
http://www.lowendbox.com/ and it's discussion forum http://www.lowendtalk.com/

-- 
With respect,
Roman

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Stallman had a printer,
with code he could not see.
So he began to tinker,
and set the software free."
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