[tor-relays] Is OVH a safe vps provider to run an exit relay on?

[gus]

Hi,

From the Community portal, Tor relay technical considerations:

## AS/location diversity

It is best to avoid hosts where many Tor relays are already hosted, but
it is still better to add one there than to run no relay at all.

Try to avoid the following hosters:

    OVH SAS (AS16276)
    Online S.a.s. (AS12876)
    Hetzner Online GmbH (AS24940)
    DigitalOcean, LLC (AS14061)


To find out which host and countries are already used by many other
operators (that should be avoided) you can use Relay Search:

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#aggregate/as

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#aggregate/cc

Source: 
https://community.torproject.org/relay/technical-considerations/

cheers,
Gus


On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:03:24AM -0700, Eddie wrote:
> William,
> 
> At (about) what number of relays per provider should we be considering
> looking elsewhere.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/1/2021 12:53 AM, William Kane wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > no, OVH is the second most commonly used hosting provider, another
> > relay hosted there would hurt the network more than it would help:
> > 
> > https://metrics.torproject.org/bubbles.html#as
> > 
> > We need to make the network as diverse as possible, in order to make
> > it as hard as possible for law enforcement and other bad actors to
> > de-anonymize tor circuits.
> > 
> > --Very large snip snip--
> > 
> > Look for a host, get it's AS ID, then input it here:
> > https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:<AS_NUMBER>
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS197019
> > 
> > If this was a bit too much, I apologize - I will gladly answer any
> > questions you have.
> > 
> > - William
> > 
> > On 30/03/2021, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I am wondering if OVH is a safe VPS provider to run an exit relay on? Thank
> > > you.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --Keifer
> > > 
> > > 
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