Thanks everyone for telling me what I suspected. The lowest spec machine is free, and they start you off with $300 credit I have not dug out their usage/bandwidth pricing, but suspect that is another catch as explained on this forum! I think I can afford the $20 or so with proper ISPs!
Gerry On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 19:43, tontu <to...@nisse.xyz> wrote: > Not necessarily under a dollar, but check out the torpids sets of > relays. Torpids has identified a number of hosts that offer > unlimited/unmetered bandwidth for a fixed price each month: > > https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/torpids > > As far as servers that are actually under $1 USD/month, there are a > decent number of hosts in Russia that offer VPS services for near $1 > USD/month. However, the reliability on a lot of these services are > abysmal (some of them oversell to the extent that VPS servers are > constantly in swapped/hibernation, than actually running. You'd need to > maintain an active SSH connection from another device just to keep the > server awake. G-Core labs is held in fairly high regard in some circles, > and is fairly cheap if you pay in Rubles (with a no forex fee credit > card) but I have no experience with that particular host. > > tontu > > On 2020-11-09 11:37 a.m., niftybunny wrote: > > I cant find any prices on the website. What do you get for under a > dollar? > > > >> On 8. Nov 2020, at 23:21, Dr Gerard Bulger <ger...@bulger.co.uk > >> <mailto:ger...@bulger.co.uk>> wrote: > >> > >> Worried about dominance of OVH for relays and exits? How about > >> Google! Setting up a fast server is SO cheap on > >> their https://cloud.google.com/ <https://cloud.google.com/> > >> platform, it is tempting to set up relays, if not exits there. > >> Looking at their T&Cs they do not seem to mention TOR or banning > >> running a proxy, but a generic list of don’t do bad things. I have > >> two ubuntu servers doing running other programmes on there now, and so > >> far cost me $0.78 with fixed IP4 addresses. I have not worked out > >> how to attach IPv6 yet. > >> > >> Of course set DNS of the machines not to be Google’s > >> > >> So tell me why this is such a bad idea… > >> > >> Gerry > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> tor-relays mailing list > >> tor-relays@lists.torproject.org <mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > > > >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > >> <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 > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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