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

[Gerard Bulger]

Thanks everyone for telling me what I suspected.  The lowest spec machine
is free, and they start you off with $300 credit
I have not dug out their usage/bandwidth pricing, but suspect that is
another catch as explained on this forum!
 I think I can afford the $20 or so with proper ISPs!

Gerry



On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 19:43, tontu <tontu at nisse.xyz> wrote:

> 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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