Re: [tor-relays] Determining geographical locations for a new exit relay would help most

2015-05-04 Thread Geo Rift
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Great to see Seth! I'm looking around Perth area at the moment for cheaper bandwidth but can't seem to find anything near that kind of price. A bit of a shame but it's the reality given Australia's poor internet. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [tor-relays] Determining geographical locations for a new exit relay would help most

2015-05-03 Thread Seth
On Sun, 03 May 2015 11:50:25 -0700, nusenu nus...@openmailbox.org wrote: I'd say 7$ for 2TB/mo on 1GB RAM is expensive if you compare it with 100mbps unmetered and lets say you are able to saturate ~50% = ~30TB/mo (~50 mpbs* in one direction) for ~15$/mo with 1GB RAM (in HU, 0.6% CW). Can't

Re: [tor-relays] Determining geographical locations for a new exit relay would help most

2015-05-03 Thread Seth
On Sat, 02 May 2015 00:52:07 -0700, Geo Rift tim.cochrane.lap...@gmail.com wrote: I would love to see some more nodes in Australia. I'm located in Perth and the speed of the network it horrible. Tim, just deployed an exit node to Sydney location, feel free to test it out:

Re: [tor-relays] Determining geographical locations for a new exit relay would help most

2015-05-03 Thread Seth
On Sat, 02 May 2015 14:37:04 -0700, nusenu nus...@openmailbox.org wrote: Is there a specific reason why you limit yourself to vultr? Yes, there are several. * Price (hardware bang for the buck. SSD, 1000GB bw/mo in most locations. Starter pkg is $5/mo) * Features/usability (really like

Re: [tor-relays] Determining geographical locations for a new exit relay would help most

2015-05-03 Thread nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Price (hardware bang for the buck. SSD, 1000GB bw/mo in most locations. Starter pkg is $5/mo) I'd say 7$ for 2TB/mo on 1GB RAM is expensive if you compare it with 100mbps unmetered and lets say you are able to saturate ~50% = ~30TB/mo (~50

Re: [tor-relays] Determining geographical locations for a new exit relay would help most

2015-05-03 Thread nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 OVH is pretty good value, CAD$2.99/mo for 1GB RAM and unlimited transfer at 100Mbps (it’s speed limited after 10,000GB) and both IPv4/6. However there are 424 OVH relays across 12 countries might not fit with your goal to add more

Re: [tor-relays] Determining geographical locations for a new exit relay would help most

2015-05-02 Thread nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 You might also want to consider the exit probability and use that in addition or instead of CW. I don't know if VULTR has multiple ASes but if they do you might also want to have a look at the group by AS results (if they allow you to

Re: [tor-relays] Determining geographical locations for a new exit relay would help most

2015-05-01 Thread nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Seth, I'm standing up a new exit relay on the VULTR network. How would a person go about determining which location is in most need of additional exit relay capacity? thanks for taking network diversity into account when setting up new

Re: [tor-relays] Determining geographical locations for a new exit relay would help most

2015-05-01 Thread Seth
On Fri, 01 May 2015 10:01:45 -0700, nusenu nus...@openmailbox.org wrote: It might be oversimplified but using compass with group by country ordered by consensus weight (or in your case exit probability) shows you where most of tor network capacity is currently located. The goal is to setup