[tor] Re: Fwd: [#SDU-156133]: Tor Server Custom Build
- From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "torservers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <torservers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 19:03:10 -0500
Wow, that AES-NI is hot shit!
Well, let me know how the US folks here can help. I'd offer to be the
host for the kickstarter project for this, but I need to check into
some legal stuff on my end before I commit to that. The configuration
stuff below sounds good to me, and it sounds like you've thought it
out.
At what point can torservers be confident it can support $800/month?
(I don't intend for you to answer that, just that this should be more
of a non-profit business calculation with a certain assumed level of
steady donators so that no payments are missed, etc. ... which makes
the yearly price very attractive, assuming a refund if they get
complaints that can only be solved by killing the node.)
best, Joe
On Tuesday, February 8, 2011, Moritz Bartl <moritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Nice. One strategy might be to set this up on a month-to-month until
>> there's enough money for buying a full year.
>
> I'm trying to get that setup fee waived, too. I'm not sure if we ever
> want to pay one year up front, especially because they try to avoid the
> possible implications of Tor on their network. But I think setting this
> up is worth a try - depending on the setup fee.
>
>> A kickstarter project
>
> Yes, I have been planning this from the start. Unfortunately, you cannot
> create Kickstarter projects from outside US yet. :-/
>
> http://kickstarter.uservoice.com/forums/10955-general/suggestions/186005-expand-kickstarter-to-international-project-creato
>
> I also want to start a Kickstarter project for the first Icelandic exit.
> I've been in contact with the owner of ThorDC (www.thordc.is), who wants
> 12€/month per Mbps.
>
>> Any idea how you'd configure this Mo? One
>> massive node or 4-5 200 Mbps nodes? Or tons of tiny nodes all
>> Family'd together?
>
> I have pretty good experience with our Softlayer node, which was on a
> Gbit line too. Mike Perry is reportedly doing ~800Mbit/s on their
> server. I have specifically asked for a CPU with AES-NI support, which
> is why I am particularly interested in this offer: the Xeon E5620
> supports AES-NI, which should lower CPU load considerably (and I would
> love to play with it and let the Tor community know of the results).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES-NI
>
> We experimented with all popular virtualization solutions, but ended up
> putting the Tor processes directly on the host, because neither Xen,
> OpenVZ nor KVM were able to handle the amount of connections coming in
> without impacting performance heavily. Because Tor still doesn't scale
> on multicore CPUs yet, I would run one logical Tor node for each CPU
> core. All in the same family of course - all our nodes are in one
> family. I want to keep the number as low as possible though, because
> high speed nodes are more likely to be noticed on TorStatus/by the Tor
> community than a hundred smaller ones. :) And it probably doesn't help
> to run multiple Tor processes per core.
>
> --
> Moritz Bartl
> http://www.torservers.net/
>
>
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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate
UC Berkeley School of Information
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
http://josephhall.org/
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