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Sorry to hear this. I want to setup a big node at Voxility, which is a good provider to host Tor exits, maybe more of us can pool together financial resources and make a big cluster. I have some offers from them if interested. On 2/25/2015 8:35 PM, Speak Freely wrote: > Hello fellow relay runners, > > This morning OVH decided to kill 7 of my relays due to spamming, > and block all access to all services. I ran the Reduced Exit policy > for all of my relays. > > Due to heightened concerns about this affecting other unrelated > services I have with OVH, I had to shut down the other 3 relays. > They may eventually re-appear as middle-relays. > > This has cost me hundreds of dollars, as I foolishly decided to > prepay on an annual basis. None of the servers were older than 2 > months. Some were only a few weeks old. > > The Abuse department's rationale is as follows: "Your account was > suspended because 100% of your IPs are blacklisted on multiples > lists for Spam and other malicious activities. This case is closed > and this decision is final." > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > When I first contacted OVH regarding running Tor relays, this was the > response that I received from them, which does not mesh with what > just happened. > > "Good morning Matt, > > I'm very glad to here from you. It is very flattering to hear that > you are very satisfied by our service at OVH! > > We do take our network speed and hardware performance very > seriously here. We are proud of our infrastructure that we have > built over the years. > > I do understand your concerns about setting up a Tor relay on one > of our VPS. In a simple form, yes you can. > > We do let our customers use our VPS as Tor relays. We have no > problem in letting you this. > > However, your are allowed to use Tor but it will be at your own > risk. > > Rest assure that, in case of an abuse, we will not terminate your > account without notice. In fact we may not even terminate your VPS. > You will receive a warning from our Abuse department giving you a > choice to resolve the abuse case. > > Like you said, we are in a world where free speech is constantly > under attack and we are committed to help as much as possible to > protect this fundamental right that we all have. We will absolutely > not in any case share our customers information or data to > authorities without a warrant. > > For any other questions or concerns, feel free to contact us at > any time. We are available 24/7. > > Good luck with that privacy project of yours and keep on supporting > the cause of free speech! > > Thank you for contacting OVH and have a wonderful day! > > Colin K. Customer Advocate" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Not that it matters anymore, but each relay was dedicated to one > of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack. > https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/4charlie > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Eventually I will get back at this... But for now, my money is > gone, and all my hard work is lost. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > So... I know I'm new. And it's possible this has happened (many > times) before, but... You've been warned. > > > Speak Freely _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJU7hu9AAoJEIN/pSyBJlsRD+UH/j78yJIPzCiKjeyDrJtQ2YIp 7W2aU/ESWPm8rQQQo1r8d6YYbaDSFJOyCVaaIHlNq1Iom5bn59DX4IigBhQzcINs N/ys6ysPy/RKU2E0YJssG9DIT8KrcKTDJ47mCe6WE5l7BqDCYUwp/Z03zuyxYUTy 7zBZH0KsqtQMepnTvPpSoQmG6CAJGHUuTng1+V1Fcd2WV8gpgu30P1yyBR9HigSa m0Nbo6rwDJ/DNYgFPgD4W2KC6COrZop6unSFHw5Xz6Du64ClwZidEfgYPRcm3SU6 3+rEEKvc3Zln4LirYALYaOpxPv/LyR1UAu1sqAJb0NBR4Dd2/wvyAbYxBFMhV/c= =fo3M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays