[tor-relays] Cheap Servers? There MUST be a catch

[niftybunny]

I cant find any prices on the website. What do you get for under a dollar?

> On 8. Nov 2020, at 23:21, Dr Gerard Bulger <gerard at bulger.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Worried about dominance of OVH  for relays and exits?   How about Google!    Setting up a fast server is SO cheap on their https://cloud.google.com/ <https://cloud.google.com/>   platform,  it is tempting to set up relays, if not exits there.  Looking at their T&Cs they do not seem to mention TOR or banning running a proxy, but a generic list of don’t do bad things.   I have two ubuntu servers doing running other programmes on there now, and so far cost me $0.78  with fixed IP4 addresses.   I have not worked out how to attach IPv6 yet.
> 
> Of course set DNS of the machines not to be Google’s
> 
> So tell me why this is such a bad idea…
> 
> Gerry
> 
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