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

[Niklas Kielblock]

On 28/11/2014 02:54, Syrup-tan wrote:
> Turns out the colocation costs $672/year for the network, and another
> $780/year for power, so I don’t think Voxility is very feasible for an
> exit node without bargaining with them.
>

This isn't all that expensive for colo; it's just not on the bargain end 
either. Very few providers are able to offer high bandwidths at 
forgettable cost. And colocation is not very price-efficient if you're 
looking to house a single midrange server - providers buy their 
dedicated servers in bulk, count on reselling old hosts and have less 
management overhead with their homogenous infrastructure, and those cost 
savings trickle down to their customers.

>> If anyone knows of a good way of finding high-bandwidth budget
>> dedicated servers (a search term or a list of providers, for example),
>> please share. I expected there to be more of a market for this kind of
>> thing than I've found.
>
> I recently rented a dedi from Online.net
> <http://Online.net> (http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-xc)
> which offers unmetered b/w, but I’ve heard bad things about the network.
> I’ll do some testing this weekend on whether or not I can get the full
> 150Mb/s link.
>

Online S.A.S. used to have a poor network, but they recently (some 
months ago, I think) got a new datacenter that seems to fare much 
better; this is also when they stopped restricting Tor nodes in their 
ToS. I'm speculating that any reports of poor network performance since 
then are from customers on their cheapest servers, which are equipped 
with VIA Nano CPUs and probably aren't able to sustain high network 
throughput in many cases.

That said, Online's network has several dozen Tor relays already 
(including mine, admittedly), more than any other network. Yet they have 
stated they do not like Tor (see the GoodBadISPs page) and if you run an 
exit they will kick you for receiving too many abuse complaints.

>> On Nov 27, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Libertas <libertas at mykolab.com
>> <mailto:libertas at mykolab.com>> wrote:
>>
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>> On 11/25/2014 02:29 PM, Syrup-tan wrote:
>>>
>>> The colocation isn’t cheap to say the least, and it only gives
>>> 5TB/month unless we want to pay more per month;
>>>
>>
>> This may the largest logistical problem I've encountered when looking
>> for dedicated servers intended to be exit nodes. For most providers,
>> even expensive and powerful servers (16+ GB of RAM, 8+ cores) will
>> come with 2-10 TB of monthly bandwidth. Because much cheaper servers
>> can saturate a 100 Mbps link (IIRC) and thereby greatly exceed those
>> limits, buying such packages just doesn't make sense. The additional
>> bandwidth prices are usually strangely high, too. The pricing is often
>> progressive - each additional terabyte costs more than the last.
>>
>> If anyone knows of a good way of finding high-bandwidth budget
>> dedicated servers (a search term or a list of providers, for example),
>> please share. I expected there to be more of a market for this kind of
>> thing than I've found.
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