Wow it is great to hear I'm on the same track as some of your thinking. I'm assuming the $1200 figure is too costly for the group now, correct? I've spoken at length with one of the admins at 1984 and I feel like we could throttle the node ourselves and they could monitor externally and just shut it down if we exceed a previously agreed upon limit. Does anyone here have experience running a Tor Exit Node off a VPS? What's the smallest requirements I could get away with? -nood -------- Original Message -------- From: Moritz Bartl <moritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Apparently from: torservers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: torservers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tor] Rokabear, Icelandic Hosting for Tor (was: Re: Re: TorserversFoundation Meeting Planning) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:06:19 +0100 > Rokabear was among the ISPs I have contacted recently. I should really > find some time to add more to the wiki :-( > > "A 100 Mbit link unmetered is $1200 a month, billed on 95 percentile > usage. That is just bandwidth, not the server or anything else." > > About Iceland: I talked to 1984.is, too, and yes, they said they wanted > to offer Tor hosting soon but don't seem to be able to properly limit > bandwidth usage yet. > > I have also talked to the CEO at thordc.is. Quote 15.10.2010: > > "We charge 700€ pr rack and that is with 16 Amps of power included. If > you need less than a rack we charge 20 € for each U, power included. > 1Mbps is around 12€ pr month and 100Mbps is about 900€. We can provide > any HW you like. We have a reseller agreement with HP, Dell, IBM, EMC, > SuperMicro, NetApp, Cisco to name a few. > > The virtual machine prices depend on the size but just to give you an > example: > > CL-1C512M Cloud Virtual machine 1 CPU core, 512 MB memory 20 GB disk > space 25€ > CL-1C2G Cloud Virtual machine 1 CPU core, 2 GB memory 20 GB > disk space 80€ > CL-2C4G Cloud Virtual machine 2 CPU core, 4 GB memory 20 GB > disk space 160€ > CL-3C6G Cloud Virtual machine 3 CPU core, 6 GB memory 20 GB > disk space 250€ > CL-4C8G Cloud Virtual machine 4 CPU core, 8 GB memory 20 GB disk > space 350€ > CL-5C10G Cloud Virtual machine 5 CPU core, 10 GB memory 20 GB disk > space 500€ > CL-6C12G Cloud Virtual machine 6 CPU core, 12 GB memory 20 GB disk > space 600€ > CL-7C14G Cloud Virtual machine 7 CPU core, 14 GB memory 20 GB disk > space 700€" > > (someone, please add this to the wiki) > -- > Moritz Bartl > http://www.torservers.net/