Re: [tor-relays] ServerAstra from hungary allows exit relays
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:37:44 +0600 Roman Mamedov r...@romanrm.ru allegedly wrote: My history with DigitalOcean ($5/month), in/out/total: Dec '12 4.99 TiB |5.32 TiB | 10.31 TiB | 44.00 Mbit/s Nov '12 6.35 TiB |6.84 TiB | 13.19 TiB | 43.70 Mbit/s Oct '12 2.10 TiB |2.26 TiB |4.36 TiB | 13.97 Mbit/s A caveat on digitalocean. I signed up for a trial (and am happy) but I couldn't believe that my current traffic level was sustainable long term at that price point. So I specifically asked the question what can I realistically use? They replied: We are currently offering free bandwidth and we certainly appreciate you reaching out to us because you are pushing a substantial amount and we do have backend processes running that constantly run consistency and health checks and bandwidth usage is something that we monitor. Mainly for detecting abuse or otherwise suspicious traffic. Your current traffic level of 32-40Mbps is fine. In the future we will eventually switch away from a free bandwidth model. Initially we roll out features to make everything simpler and to gauge our customers usage and to understand how to best cater the service to their needs. So - prices /will/ go up and/or bandwidth allowance /will/ go down. Best Mick - blog: baldric.net gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312 - signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] ServerAstra from hungary allows exit relays
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:36:25 -0500 grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: If you're signing up for unmetered miracle deals you should also ask specifically if your account will be grandfathered Or stop worrying, just pay month-to-month, and enjoy it while it lasts. -- With respect, Roman ~~~ Stallman had a printer, with code he could not see. So he began to tinker, and set the software free. signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] ServerAstra from hungary allows exit relays
sorry claude for kidnapping your thread, thanks for the information BTW :) and sorry everyone else for reviving an older thread. i just want to ask, from others experience, if what im getting from my service provider is a reasonable deal. for 10 euros a month they allow me about 115GB daily traffic in each direction. and its not throttled after that, its just what they asked me to put in my torrc. and with the bandwidth they give me its exhausted in about 12 hours each day. what do you guys think? thanks On 9 January 2013 06:12, Claude longneck-accou...@scratchbook.ch wrote: Hi I want to share my experience with a hoster I discovered about a year ago: https://serverastra.com/ I set up a non-exit relay in feburary 2012. They offer a VPS with 100Mbit unmetered traffic for about 15$/month. Here are the vnstat stats: http://paste.scratchbook.ch/view/26af6ae0 Recently, I asked them if I am allowed to run an exit-relay. They answered: -- For now our ToS allows Tor nodes. but please be advised they are really easy to abuse. We will try to protect the network with our firewall in case of problems (we already experienced spam from ToR networks). In any case a ticket will be opened upon abuse case and we will try to keep both sides confidentiality during negotiation. Happy New Year! -- They are really cooperative! They also set me up a reverse DNS. So everything runs fine and fast. Although they sometimes encounter problems with DDOS-attacks, which affects the bandwith. But this only happened twice last year. Claude ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] ServerAstra from hungary allows exit relays
Well, 115GB/day == 3.4TB/month == 10Mbps unmetered/month. I assume you are talking about a VPS? It seems to me that the 10 Euros/month would be better spent on an unmetered 10Mbps plan. At least that way the relay would be up all the time (and eventually considered Stable) instead of up and down in 12-hour increments. On the other hand if your service provider has already indicated that they are OK with you running a Tor relay that might better worth more than taking a chance on some other provider. Just my opinion(s). http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104 On 01/12/2013 04:52 PM, george torwell wrote: [snip] i just want to ask, from others experience, if what im getting from my service provider is a reasonable deal. for 10 euros a month they allow me about 115GB daily traffic in each direction. and its not throttled after that, its just what they asked me to put in my torrc. and with the bandwidth they give me its exhausted in about 12 hours each day. what do you guys think? thanks ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] ServerAstra from hungary allows exit relays
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:23:50 -0500 Steve Snyder swsny...@snydernet.net wrote: Well, 115GB/day == 3.4TB/month == 10Mbps unmetered/month. They said in each direction, so I assume it was 6.8TB...? A bit better, but even so, doesn't strike me as the most effective deal ever. My history with DigitalOcean ($5/month), in/out/total: Dec '12 4.99 TiB |5.32 TiB | 10.31 TiB | 44.00 Mbit/s Nov '12 6.35 TiB |6.84 TiB | 13.19 TiB | 43.70 Mbit/s Oct '12 2.10 TiB |2.26 TiB |4.36 TiB | 13.97 Mbit/s Or PrismaVPS ($5/month too) Dec '12 1.89 TiB |1.96 TiB |3.86 TiB | 12.37 Mbit/s Nov '12 1.85 TiB |1.94 TiB |3.79 TiB | 12.55 Mbit/s Oct '12 1.89 TiB |1.97 TiB |3.87 TiB | 12.40 Mbit/s 4TB for $5 is more bang for the buck than 6.8TB for $13 (if it's even actually 6.8TB). And you would have no limitation with regard to b/w per day, only per month, which is less of a maintenance burden. -- With respect, Roman ~~~ Stallman had a printer, with code he could not see. So he began to tinker, and set the software free. signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] ServerAstra from hungary allows exit relays
Hi I want to share my experience with a hoster I discovered about a year ago: https://serverastra.com/ I set up a non-exit relay in feburary 2012. They offer a VPS with 100Mbit unmetered traffic for about 15$/month. Here are the vnstat stats: http://paste.scratchbook.ch/view/26af6ae0 Recently, I asked them if I am allowed to run an exit-relay. They answered: -- For now our ToS allows Tor nodes. but please be advised they are really easy to abuse. We will try to protect the network with our firewall in case of problems (we already experienced spam from ToR networks). In any case a ticket will be opened upon abuse case and we will try to keep both sides confidentiality during negotiation. Happy New Year! -- They are really cooperative! They also set me up a reverse DNS. So everything runs fine and fast. Although they sometimes encounter problems with DDOS-attacks, which affects the bandwith. But this only happened twice last year. Claude pgpAAnV9LRjPi.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] ServerAstra from hungary allows exit relays
My experience with ServerAstra is that they will null-route your IP address on reports of abuse. No notification to me, their customer. This put me in the position on several occasions of noticing that my VPS had been down for x days. It was only when opening a Support Ticket to complain about lack of service that I was told my IP address had been null-routed due to abuse reports. Here's an example of what I was told: Your VPS has been blocked automatically on numerous accounts of virus, malware activity and spamming, and got itself into several block lists. Please clean up the vps and fix the issues which are allowing such things to happen, as we keep our network secure and free of these problems. Your VPS ip will be enabled again rightaway but please prevent further abuse of our network resources. This while running an exit node with the Reduced Exit Policy. This was my experience from Feb through May of last year. They may not have a policy against exit nodes but they sure make it difficult to keep one running. On 01/09/2013 06:12 AM, Claude wrote: Hi I want to share my experience with a hoster I discovered about a year ago: https://serverastra.com/ I set up a non-exit relay in feburary 2012. They offer a VPS with 100Mbit unmetered traffic for about 15$/month. Here are the vnstat stats: http://paste.scratchbook.ch/view/26af6ae0 Recently, I asked them if I am allowed to run an exit-relay. They answered: -- For now our ToS allows Tor nodes. but please be advised they are really easy to abuse. We will try to protect the network with our firewall in case of problems (we already experienced spam from ToR networks). In any case a ticket will be opened upon abuse case and we will try to keep both sides confidentiality during negotiation. Happy New Year! -- They are really cooperative! They also set me up a reverse DNS. So everything runs fine and fast. Although they sometimes encounter problems with DDOS-attacks, which affects the bandwith. But this only happened twice last year. Claude ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
