Re: [tor-talk] virtual private servers for Tor?

2011-08-27 Thread coderman
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:12 PM, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: ... the very design trade offs they make to support larger numbers of contains per host directly reduce the networking performance and capacity of any singular container/vm. note that design trade-offs in favor of speed also

Re: [tor-talk] virtual private servers for Tor?

2011-08-27 Thread Hu Man
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 05:12, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Martin Fick mogul...@yahoo.com wrote: ... Both of your preferred solutions will have much higher performance overheads than any container like solution (OpenVz, Vserver, lxc...).

[tor-talk] virtual private servers for Tor?

2011-08-26 Thread Rhona Mahony
What virtual private server software do you know works well--or badly--with running a Tor server? I want to buy cheap VPS's devoted exclusively to running Tor servers. The VPS's often limit traffic to, say, 200GB. I see companies offering Xen, OpenVZ, VMware, Virtuozzo, and many

Re: [tor-talk] virtual private servers for Tor?

2011-08-26 Thread coderman
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Rhona Mahony rmah...@stanford.edu wrote:   What virtual private server software do you know works well--or badly--with running a Tor server? Xen, VMWare work best in bridged mode; alas most providers don't configure them this way. OpenVZ is worthless from a

Re: [tor-talk] virtual private servers for Tor?

2011-08-26 Thread Aaron
I run a (non-exit) relay on a 512MB linode instance (http://www.linode.com). That costs $20/m with 200GB/m and uses Xen. Performance has been fine, but you can burn through 200GB pretty quickly (incoming and outgoing traffic both count). I am planning on shutting down this relay and donating the

Re: [tor-talk] virtual private servers for Tor?

2011-08-26 Thread Martin Fick
--- On Fri, 8/26/11, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: Rhona Mahony rmah...@stanford.edu wrote:   What virtual private server software do you know works well--or badly--with running a Tor server? Xen, VMWare work best in bridged mode; alas most providers don't configure them this