Greetings,
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 need the bandwidth/CPU time for other activities in the future. For now I'm giving 1MB/s to Tor. I had been wondering just how to monitor my relay when I read about ARM on this list. I installed ARM, fiddled with the torrc a bit and was pleasantly surprised with ARM's display. Kudos to the developer! It appears that Anonimulo is running flat out at max bandwidth too. Yay!
Patrick
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.
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 07:28:41AM -0400, andrew@torproject.org wrote:
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.
Apropos carbon-neutral renewable in Iceland, UK's Verne Global is contracting Colt to build a geothermal/hydro colo in Keflavík, going to go live in a few months: http://tomorrowsdatacentre.com/
Andrew,
Thank-you for the background on Iceland. I hope my relay does not become a problem for DataCell. I'm pretty sure the TOS doesn't permit proxies, not sure what DataCell thinks of Tor. So far I've not heard from them, if I do I'll pass it along to this list. Too bad about Iceland's connectivity bottleneck, we've had such problems here in Alaska also.
Thanks for running a relay. I'm interested to hear your experiences with datacell in Iceland. ... -- Andrew pgp key: 0x74ED336B
If only their single fiber connection to the world wasn't the bottleneck.
You might want to talk to VerneGlobal and the Icelandic chamber of commerce/investment about that... There are at least four cables, totaling maybe 10Tb. Tata?/TeleGlobe?/GreenlandConnect, FarIce, DanIce, CanTat. HiberniaAtlantic has been talking for a while now. ICEUS is another. EmeraldAtlantis appears to be a few months from laying some heavy pipe, that one should turn lots of heads.
The talk about Iceland is trending it as a low latency midpoint, datacenter heaven of the finance and DR world. So control, access, and pricing might be more the issue. Though long term the limiting factor may end up being power and related green regs.
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 01:03:30AM -0400, grarpamp@gmail.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 20 lines about: : You might want to talk to VerneGlobal and the Icelandic chamber : of commerce/investment about that... : There are at least four cables, totaling maybe 10Tb. : Tata?/TeleGlobe?/GreenlandConnect, FarIce, DanIce, CanTat.
From what I heard, farice is the only cable carrying commercial traffic.
The others are for research/educational use only. The greenlandconnect that transits between canada, greenland, and iceland is either super lossy or broken because it's not deep enough for icebergs to clear it.
: The talk about Iceland is trending it as a low latency midpoint, : datacenter heaven of the finance and DR world.
This is sort of comical given the volcanic activity on Iceland throughout its history. However, the pending IMMI legislation may provide further incentive to host there as countries continue to censor the Internet in various ways. The Iceland National Police were not opposed to Tor once they understood what it is. See https://blog.torproject.org/blog/visit-iceland for some details.
Overall, my exit relay there was fine, it was the bandwidth costs that killed it. Paying ISK120 per month for the host with free incoming bandwidth but paying ISK10,000 for the outgoing bandwidth was just crazy.
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