On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 08:19:25PM -0800, patriko@glano.org wrote 0.8K bytes in 19 lines about: : Thought I'd say a quick hello since I'm following the list for several : days now. I'm running a non-exit relay, "Anonimulo" on a VPS account I : have in Iceland. I'm not sure how long I'll be able to keep it up, I may
Thanks for running a relay. I'm interested to hear your experiences with datacell in Iceland.
For a bit of background, I've talked to a few providers in Iceland and they all told me about the backwards bandwidth arrangements where traffic into Iceland is nearly free, but exiting Iceland is like 10x the cost per MB. Maybe datacell is large enough to have negotiated a better rate with Farice, http://www.farice.is/, the monopoly ISP that owns all the lines in and out of the country for commercial traffic. I had to shut down my exit relay because the outbound traffic was costing way too much.
The Parliament and others realize the country is bathed in fiber, and coupled with their geothermal power generation, electricity is nearly free, they could easily become a huge global hosting operation. If only their single fiber connection to the world wasn't the bottleneck.