Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits and non-Exits

[Jean-Philippe Décarie-Mathieu]

In my case, the decision to host my Tor VPS on OVH's infrastructure is
to support a business that is based in Québec. Ideology aside, I agree
that network diversity is key (along with the multiplication of exit nodes).

Regards,

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On 2016-07-06 04:39 PM, pa011 wrote:
>
> Am 06.07.2016 um 22:09 schrieb Iain R. Learmonth:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 06/07/16 18:25, tor relay wrote:
 I've been running an exit node for over a year on OVH now, no problems
 so far. Highly recommended (especially since they give me 10TB of
 traffic for about 10$USD/month; considering I use about 7-8TB of that
 per month, it's well worth it).
>>> OVH is used to much by tor operators already (>12% of the tor network
>>> capacity is there).
>> Not the most performance enhanced page on the web but:
>>
>> https://metrics.torproject.org/bubbles.html
>>
>> This bubble graph shows where relays are located by autonomous system.
>> If you're looking to set up new relays, attempting to grow smaller
>> bubbles here (the names should be googleable enough) or trying to add
>> new ones would definitely be preferred over adding more to OVH.
>>
>> It's great that OVH are Tor-friendly, but diversity of the network is
>> important.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Iain.
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> "..diversity of the network is important." -very important - what if a
> far Western European government decides on the next "state of emergency"
> to ban Tor and "asks" their domestic ISPs for support?
>
> There are other Providers who give you 15-50 TB/month for less than 10 Euro.
>
> Dig for them - don’t follow the pack!
>
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits and non-Exits

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> I find https://compass.torproject.org more convenient for that
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+1
The bubbles aren't useful IMO.

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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits and non-Exits

[nusenu]

> On 06/07/16 18:25, tor relay wrote:
>>> I've been running an exit node for over a year on OVH now, no problems
>>> so far. Highly recommended (especially since they give me 10TB of
>>> traffic for about 10$USD/month; considering I use about 7-8TB of that
>>> per month, it's well worth it).
>>
>> OVH is used to much by tor operators already (>12% of the tor network
>> capacity is there).
> 
> Not the most performance enhanced page on the web but:
> 
> https://metrics.torproject.org/bubbles.html
> 
> This bubble graph shows where relays are located by autonomous system.
> If you're looking to set up new relays, attempting to grow smaller
> bubbles here (the names should be googleable enough) or trying to add
> new ones would definitely be preferred over adding more to OVH.

I find https://compass.torproject.org more convenient for that task.



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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits and non-Exits

[nusenu]

> On 06/07/16 18:25, tor relay wrote:
>>> I've been running an exit node for over a year on OVH now, no problems
>>> so far. Highly recommended (especially since they give me 10TB of
>>> traffic for about 10$USD/month; considering I use about 7-8TB of that
>>> per month, it's well worth it).
>>
>> OVH is used to much by tor operators already (>12% of the tor network
>> capacity is there).
> 
> Not the most performance enhanced page on the web but:
> 
> https://metrics.torproject.org/bubbles.html
> 
> This bubble graph shows where relays are located by autonomous system.
> If you're looking to set up new relays, attempting to grow smaller
> bubbles here (the names should be googleable enough) or trying to add
> new ones would definitely be preferred over adding more to OVH.

I find https://compasss.torproject.org more convenient for that task.



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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits and non-Exits

[pa011]

Am 06.07.2016 um 22:09 schrieb Iain R. Learmonth:
> Hi,
> 
> On 06/07/16 18:25, tor relay wrote:
>>> I've been running an exit node for over a year on OVH now, no problems
>>> so far. Highly recommended (especially since they give me 10TB of
>>> traffic for about 10$USD/month; considering I use about 7-8TB of that
>>> per month, it's well worth it).
>>
>> OVH is used to much by tor operators already (>12% of the tor network
>> capacity is there).
> 
> Not the most performance enhanced page on the web but:
> 
> https://metrics.torproject.org/bubbles.html
> 
> This bubble graph shows where relays are located by autonomous system.
> If you're looking to set up new relays, attempting to grow smaller
> bubbles here (the names should be googleable enough) or trying to add
> new ones would definitely be preferred over adding more to OVH.
> 
> It's great that OVH are Tor-friendly, but diversity of the network is
> important.
> 
> Thanks,
> Iain.
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"..diversity of the network is important." -very important - what if a
far Western European government decides on the next "state of emergency"
to ban Tor and "asks" their domestic ISPs for support?

There are other Providers who give you 15-50 TB/month for less than 10 Euro.

Dig for them - don’t follow the pack!


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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits and non-Exits

[Iain R. Learmonth]

Hi,

On 06/07/16 18:25, tor relay wrote:
>> I've been running an exit node for over a year on OVH now, no problems
>> so far. Highly recommended (especially since they give me 10TB of
>> traffic for about 10$USD/month; considering I use about 7-8TB of that
>> per month, it's well worth it).
> 
> OVH is used to much by tor operators already (>12% of the tor network
> capacity is there).

Not the most performance enhanced page on the web but:

https://metrics.torproject.org/bubbles.html

This bubble graph shows where relays are located by autonomous system.
If you're looking to set up new relays, attempting to grow smaller
bubbles here (the names should be googleable enough) or trying to add
new ones would definitely be preferred over adding more to OVH.

It's great that OVH are Tor-friendly, but diversity of the network is
important.

Thanks,
Iain.
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits and non-Exits

[tor relay]

> On July 6, 2016 at 6:16 PM Jean-Philippe Décarie-Mathieu  
> wrote:
> 
> I've been running an exit node for over a year on OVH now, no problems so 
> far. Highly recommended (especially since they give me 10TB of traffic for 
> about 10$USD/month; considering I use about 7-8TB of that per month, it's 
> well worth it).
> 

OVH is used to much by tor operators already (>12% of the tor network capacity 
is there).
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[Jean-Philippe Décarie-Mathieu]

I've been running an exit node for over a year on OVH now, no problems
so far. Highly recommended (especially since they give me 10TB of
traffic for about 10$USD/month; considering I use about 7-8TB of that
per month, it's well worth it).

*Jean-Philippe Décarie-Mathieu*
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On 2016-07-06 04:19 AM, tor relay wrote:
>
> > Well, I'm still sticking with CoolHousing/Virtual Server Lite
> because I hardly ever get abuse
> > complaints. For ITL, I may leave after my term expires.
>
> > But a few other companies I found were:
>
> > https://hostmaze.com/
>
> tested it, made really bad experience with them, network performance
> was almost unusable <10MBit/s
> lately, they had an outage of 2 days ("because voxility upstream added
> two new uplinks", than I canceled)
>
> > https://blazingfast.io/
>
> made also bad experience with them, like "fatal" said, their network
> performance isn't the best <20MBit/s (per direction) weekly average
>
>
> If anyone can recommend any other hosters, please come forward.
>
>
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[Markus Koch]

I am testing www.hostwinds.com and www.digitalocean.com right now,
both work fine atm.

Markus



2016-07-06 10:19 GMT+02:00 tor relay :
>> Well, I'm still sticking with CoolHousing/Virtual Server Lite because I
>> hardly ever get abuse
>> complaints. For ITL, I may leave after my term expires.
>
>> But a few other companies I found were:
>
>> https://hostmaze.com/
>
> tested it, made really bad experience with them, network performance was
> almost unusable <10MBit/s
> lately, they had an outage of 2 days ("because voxility upstream added two
> new uplinks", than I canceled)
>
>> https://blazingfast.io/
>
> made also bad experience with them, like "fatal" said, their network
> performance isn't the best <20MBit/s (per direction) weekly average
>
>
> If anyone can recommend any other hosters, please come forward.
>
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[tor relay]

> Well, I'm still sticking with CoolHousing/Virtual Server Lite because I 
> hardly ever get abuse
> complaints. For ITL, I may leave after my term expires.

> But a few other companies I found were:

> https://hostmaze.com/

tested it, made really bad experience with them, network performance was almost 
unusable <10MBit/s
lately, they had an outage of 2 days ("because voxility upstream added two new 
uplinks", than I canceled)

> https://blazingfast.io/

made also bad experience with them, like "fatal" said, their network 
performance isn't the best <20MBit/s (per direction) weekly average


If anyone can recommend any other hosters, please come forward.
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[Tristan]

The problem with Pulse is that they use OVH, and that service is already
heavily saturated with Tor nodes.
On May 25, 2016 5:32 PM, "Jesse V"  wrote:

>
> You can add Pulse Servers to the list. I think they are happy as long as
> you don't use an excessive amount of bandwidth per month. A rough
> estimate of the maximum is 10 TB per month per tier, but less is better.
>
> --
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[Jesse V]

You can add Pulse Servers to the list. I think they are happy as long as
you don't use an excessive amount of bandwidth per month. A rough
estimate of the maximum is 10 TB per month per tier, but less is better.

-- 
Jesse V



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[fatal]

> https://blazingfast.io/

they shut down my exit without further notice and it was blazingslow

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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[Neel Chauhan]

> An exit node could be expensive ...

Well, I'm still sticking with CoolHousing/Virtual Server Lite because I 
hardly ever get abuse complaints. For ITL, I may leave after my term 
expires.


But a few other companies I found were:

https://hostmaze.com/
https://www.lcsnet.eu/index.php
https://serverastra.com/
https://blazingfast.io/

Thanks,
Neel Chauhan
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[Markus Koch]

Just to let you know:

cut---
Hello,
you have to be prepare for possible additional costs.
if you exceed 10 abuse emails/month every additional mail is charged 3eur.
S pozdravem / Best Regards

Martin Horni
Junior Network Administrator
===
COOLHOUSING s.r.o. - http://COOLHOUSING.NET
The best for your server!
===
Vinohradska 190, Praha 3
http://mapa.coolhousing.net
mail: i...@coolhousing.net
TEL CZ: +420 777 310 000
-cut-

An exit node could be expensive ...



2016-05-21 14:37 GMT+02:00 Neel Chauhan :
>>Do you know of a VPS for an exit?
> I have two exits on VPS servers. One is on ITL (https://itldc.com/), and the
> other one is on CoolHousing using their Virtual Server Lite brand
> (http://virtualniserverlite.cz/en/). My experience with both hosts has been
> very good. For the latter, you WILL need a Reduced Exit Policy, and have to
> remove IRC ports.
>
> I also previously had a VPS with Verelox (https://verelox.com/) when they
> had unlimited bandwidth, and they allow Tor exit nodes as well.
>
> I don't know about other providers, but a good place to ask for a Tor
> friendly VPS is vpsBoard (https://vpsboard.com/).
>
> -Neel Chauhan
> https://www.neelc.org/
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[grarpamp]

First, you don't need to keep asking for hosts when you
can simply whois the consensus for them.
Second, network diversity requires that you find new hosts,
use your telephone book.
Third, there are risks to asking for referrals,
and to piling on top of non-diversity...

http://www.salon.com/2014/07/13/fbi_cyber_expert_is_ex_discount_furniture_salesman/
Mularski befriended the criminal mastermind behind the site and
persuaded him to let Mularski move the operation onto new computer
servers. The servers happened to belong to the FBI, which led to more
than 60 arrests worldwide.
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[Neel Chauhan]

I contacted ITL (https://itldc.com/) as well two weeks ago. To me they
refused opening an exit: "We decide to do not allow new public tor 
exit

nodes in our network. Existing public tor exit nodes we be kept."


Well that's unfortunate. I guess I'll have to hold on to my VPS for a 
long time. No wonder why someone on this mailing list had trouble with 
ITL earlier this month. They no longer want exit nodes.


-Neel Chauhan
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[pa011]

I contacted ITL (https://itldc.com/) as well two weeks ago. To me they
refused opening an exit: "We decide to do not allow new public tor exit
nodes in our network. Existing public tor exit nodes we be kept."

Paul



Am 21.05.2016 um 14:37 schrieb Neel Chauhan:
>>Do you know of a VPS for an exit?
> I have two exits on VPS servers. One is on ITL (https://itldc.com/), and
> the other one is on CoolHousing using their Virtual Server Lite brand
> (http://virtualniserverlite.cz/en/). My experience with both hosts has
> been very good. For the latter, you WILL need a Reduced Exit Policy, and
> have to remove IRC ports.
> 
> I also previously had a VPS with Verelox (https://verelox.com/) when
> they had unlimited bandwidth, and they allow Tor exit nodes as well.
> 
> I don't know about other providers, but a good place to ask for a Tor
> friendly VPS is vpsBoard (https://vpsboard.com/).
> 
> -Neel Chauhan
> https://www.neelc.org/
> 
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[Neel Chauhan]

>Do you know of a VPS for an exit?
I have two exits on VPS servers. One is on ITL (https://itldc.com/), 
and the other one is on CoolHousing using their Virtual Server Lite 
brand (http://virtualniserverlite.cz/en/). My experience with both 
hosts has been very good. For the latter, you WILL need a Reduced Exit 
Policy, and have to remove IRC ports.


I also previously had a VPS with Verelox (https://verelox.com/) when 
they had unlimited bandwidth, and they allow Tor exit nodes as well.


I don't know about other providers, but a good place to ask for a Tor 
friendly VPS is vpsBoard (https://vpsboard.com/).


-Neel Chauhan
https://www.neelc.org/

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Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[I]

Thank you but I meant in Uruguay.
Hostwinds is a pretty good US-based VPS. The price is good, and you get 10TB of bandwidth to start with. 
Do you know of a VPS for an exit?





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[tor-relays] VPS for Exits

[Tristan]

Hostwinds is a pretty good US-based VPS. The price is good, and you get
10TB of bandwidth to start with.
On May 20, 2016 6:03 PM, "I"  wrote:

Do you know of a VPS for an exit?

Robert


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