[tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

[Seth]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:05:53 -0800, s7r <s7r at sky-ip.org> wrote:

> I am concerned if they will sustain Tor exits on the long term. If the
> Tor relay will consume more bandwidth they might start shouting about
> it since more virtual machines share a network port, and they will
> want to maximize how many VMs they can assign to a port in order to
> maximize profit. Not to mention if the relay will be under DDoS attack.

I share all these concerns and s'pose we'll find out eventually.

The Choopa (VULTR parent company) network infrastructure is fairly robust  
 from what I gathered reading many many posts about the service on  
lowendtalk.com.

> I saw many cheap cloud providers which claimed to support Tor, yet
> after little time just when the relay was becoming popular and known
> in the consensus, service terminated. Hope VULTR will not follow this  
> way.

I think the VPS providers are more likely to fold in the face of pressure.  
Too big and they're likely gutless and/or compromised.

There's probably a sweet spot that's willing to "Throw down for freedom"  
somewhere in the middle. (Sonic.net for example)

I should have also mentioned in my previous post I put the following in  
/etc/tor/torrc

# Bandwidth and data caps
AccountingStart day 19:45 # calculate once a day at 7:45pm
AccountingMax 33 GBytes # 33GB X 30 days = 10GB shy of 1000GB/mo.
RelayBandwidthRate 3000 KBytes
RelayBandwidthBurst 3750 KBytes # allow higher bursts but maintain average