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

[tontu]

Not necessarily under a dollar, but check out the torpids sets of
relays. Torpids has identified a number of hosts that offer
unlimited/unmetered bandwidth for a fixed price each month:

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/torpids

As far as servers that are actually under $1 USD/month, there are a
decent number of hosts in Russia that offer VPS services for near $1
USD/month. However, the reliability on a lot of these services are
abysmal (some of them oversell to the extent that VPS servers are
constantly in swapped/hibernation, than actually running. You'd need to
maintain an active SSH connection from another device just to keep the
server awake. G-Core labs is held in fairly high regard in some circles,
and is fairly cheap if you pay in Rubles (with a no forex fee credit
card) but I have no experience with that particular host.

tontu

On 2020-11-09 11:37 a.m., niftybunny wrote:
> 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
>> <mailto: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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