[tor-relays] VPS Hardware Specification & Advice

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Many thanks for your reply & really useful to know that I can find
better value for my money which, in turn, equals a larger number of tor
relays that I can afford to run.

My plan was to start out with a budget of approximately 20 Euros and if
all goes well increase to around 50 Euros per month so plenty of scope
for many tor relays at these prices.

On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:40:11 +0200, Tor Pids <torpids at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i just saw this post on the web archive and felt I can contribute
> something here so I finally registered. Maybe this reply will not be
> correctly recognized to the thread, sorry.
> 
> The VPS specs you posted should be more than enough - but the price
> is too expensive!
> 
> I currently run about 20 Tor relays on cheap VPS all around the
> world: http://globe.rndm.de/#/search/query=torpids
> 
> Basically I just care for the bandwidth/included traffic when
> choosing a VPS. 256MB RAM is enough, disk space doesn't matter at all.
> Tor doesn't scale that well with CPU cores so 1 core is ok. For only 1
> or 2 of my VPS the CPU is the bottleneck (at about 20-30MBit/s), but
> most are fast enough. Most cheap VPS are based on the OpenVZ
> virtualization which limits you to their old kernel and sometimes they
> limit the number of tcp connections (see "cat
> /proc/user_beancounters"). KVM or Xen virtualisation is better because
> you have more control on the VM. Most VPS providers add up the
> incoming and outgoing bandwidth, meaning that you might be able to
> just send about 500GB with your 1TB plan.
> 
> For example with a VPS from www.jiffybox.de for 15€ per month it is
> possible to push more than 1TB PER DAY(!) (and not per month as with
> the 18€ plan you mentioned). OVH just released a server for £2,99 per
> month with unlimited 100MBit/s as well:
> https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml
> Other typical offers are like 10TB for 10$ or 20MBit/s unlimited for 3€.
> 
> Good places to find cheap VPS deals:
> http://www.lowendbox.com/ and http://lowendtalk.com/categories/offers
> http://www.wjunction.com/46-vps
> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104
> 
> Best,
> Torpids
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