I have bought some credit on Aruba. . .
Looked at Aruba offerings, check this out
https://serverdedicati.aruba.it/server-dedicati/basic-1-3.aspx
For 15 euros/month you can have a dedicated dual-core 1.6GHz with 100MBPS unmetered traffic. This will make a rather nice exit node for the cost and will run better than a typical VPS where one has no control over system load. Even with the low clock-speed, network processing latency will be very good.
Probably is an Atom or maybe a Celeron CPU and the it will probably run at close to 100%--not a problem. If one 'tor' instance does not use more than 30-40% of the 100MBPS due to limited CPU, fire up a second relay. Up to two relays can run on a single IP address.
But if one 'tor' instance runs at 50-60% of bandwidth or better it would make sense to stick with just the one.
Non-exit relays typically load at 25-35%; is the intentional design of the bandwidth allocation system. However due to the relative shortage of them, exits run more like 80% of useable bandwidth as determined by the BWauths.
2015-09-27 6:23 GMT+02:00 starlight.2015q3@binnacle.cx:
I have bought some credit on Aruba. . .
Looked at Aruba offerings, check this out
https://serverdedicati.aruba.it/server-dedicati/basic-1-3.aspx
For 15 euros/month you can have a dedicated dual-core 1.6GHz with 100MBPS unmetered traffic. This will make a rather nice exit node for the cost and will run better than a typical VPS where one has no control over system load.
Thanks very much for the advice. I will start with the small VPS one, see how Aruba behaves in terms of handling complaints and abuse reports and if all goes well I will consider the option above.
Thank you for taking the time of looking into it.
Cristian
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