[tor-relays] Estimating the value and cost of the Tor network

[dope457]

Hello Mike,

I am running exit relay (was non-exit in the past) - 
F12AFDB3FEC184E76944579579F762F1142C7ED2
Its one core VPS with 1GB of RAM on 100 Mbps line.
I pay 1016 CZK, which is about 47 USD, per year.

Best,
dope457

Dne 2014-09-24 01:11, Mike Perry napsal:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I would like to put together some estimates on bounds of the current
> value and cost of the capacity of the Tor network as it is, and use 
> that
> to generate some rough guestimates on what it would cost to grow it
> (assuming we solved all the complicated problems with respect to
> maintaining diversity and operator incentives).
> 
> In order to make these estimates, I need some people to tell me:
>  1. Your node identity fingerprints.
>  2. How these fingerprints map to hardware, CPU cores, and uplink.
>  3. How much you are paying for this uplink per month.
> 
> If you are paying less than market rate because of a friendly ISP,
> ideally you would also tell me what the standard market rate is at that
> ISP.
> 
> If you have multiple nodes at multiple datacenters, please break these
> costs and fingerprints out individually rather than telling me 
> aggregate
> information.
> 
> I'd most like to hear from people who are doing the recommended
> best-practice of running one Tor process instance per CPU core, are
> paying for dedicated uplink at around 100Mbit/sec or higher at a
> datacenter, and who are not CPU bound on any of their Tor processes. If
> this does not apply to you, I'd still like to hear from you, but please
> tell me these details of your setup.
> 
> Exit node data is most useful, but I am happy to hear about non-exits
> too. I suspect they may be much cheaper on average, and getting some
> data on this is also important. Unfortunately, bridges are not that
> useful at this time.
> 
> You do not need to send this information publicly to the list. I am
> happy to receive it privately via GPG. My GPG key id is
> 0x29846B3C683686CC, and that key signs all of my mail to all torproject
> lists. You can get it here:
> https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x29846B3C683686CC
> 
> 
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