[tor-relays] Experience hosting exit relay with Costa Rica Servers: crservers.com

[Greg]

Patrick,
Do you mind adding this info to the "good/bad isps" wiki? I'm looking
around for hosting as well and thought we could improve that page a
little.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs

Thanks,
Greg

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Kenneth Freeman <kencf0618 at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 09/08/2015 12:14 PM, Patrick O'Doherty wrote:
>> I received the following response from them:
>>
>>> We do not discriminate on the use of any protocol among our customers.
>>> Nevertheless, if we get complains or any type of pressure from public or private
>>> entities for illegal activity occurring in your server, we will have to suspend
>>> service.
>>> You will be immediately contacted about any issue that arises.
>
> This explanation is marvelously vague.
>
>> so it would appear that they're not too friendly about hosting exit
>> relays. I've asked if they can forward all abuse complains to be instead
>> of immediately terminating service, but I'm not too hopeful.
>
> My hunch is that they just don't want to deal with the complaints and
> legal & administrative overhead -it's more cost-effective just to cut
> you off. When I first set up Tor some years ago I briefly ran it as an
> exit node, having sent an explanatory e-mail to my ISP, but I very
> quickly learned that once they receive a DMCA notice they cut you off at
> the knees, whereupon you're dealing with "help" desk morons working from
> a very strict script. Best to run an exit node from a corporate set-up
> with the legal boilerplate already in place.
>
>
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