[tor-relays] Shutdown of my digital ocean guard relay

[Roman Mamedov]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:41:52 +0100
mick <mbm at rlogin.net> wrote:

> Hi Guys
> 
> I today received notification from DO that they have changed their
> Terms of Service and Acceptable Useage policies. Having read those
> changed notices it is clear to me that DO are no longer really Tor
> friendly. They do not allow exits and whilst my guard relay there
> (at roof.rlogin.net with fingerprint
> EA8637EA746451C0680559FDFF34ABA54DDAE831)
> has been running for nearly seven years I can no longer do that because
> of the likely bandwidth charges in future. My DO relay has been
> using around 12 TiB per month for some time now and I could afford to
> let it run because I was a "legacy" customer (i.e. early adopter of DO
> services who was given "free bandwidth forever"). It looks to me from
> their new ToS that I will no longer enjoy that status after 22 October.
> So I have shut it down.
> 
> Any other relay operator using DO services should read their new ToS (1)
> and AUP (2) and decide for themselves whether they will be affected.

Could you point out which change you are referring to? The point 3.7 saying
that unmetered bandwidth accounts must not run "TOR" has been there since the
earliest the Wayback Machine has it, from May 8th, 2018:

http://web.archive.org/web/20181106225918/https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms-of-service-agreement/

3.7 As a reward for being early adopters of the Services, Subscribers with
grandfathered Accounts shall receive free bandwidth for the duration that such
Account is operative and conducts its operations in compliance with these
Terms of Service ("Grandfathered Accounts"). The free bandwidth may only be
used directly by the Subscriber of such Grandfathered Account. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, Subscribers of Grandfathered Accounts must NOT: (i) run
Torrents for download or Seed Servers, TOR, or services that include content
of an adult or pornographic nature; (ii) resell services through their Account
to provide free bandwidth to other individuals; or (iii) transfer the Account
ownership to another individual or entity, or otherwise circumvent the
intended fair usage of free bandwidth by distributing it freely to others.
Failure of Subscribers of Grandfathered Accounts to follow these terms will
result in the revocation of their Accounts' grandfathered status.

> My other guard relay at sink.rlogin.net on Hetzner's network will
> continue in operation.
> 
> Mick
> 
> (1) https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms-of-service-agreement/
> 
> (2) https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy/ 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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With respect,
Roman