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Does anyone find it surprising that Europe seems to have comparatively more nodes/traffic flow than the US?

• enedil 11y ago
  The US population is more than 2 times smaller than the European one, so it makes completly sense to me.
  • eliaspro 11y ago
    You mean less than half of Europe?
    • enedil 11y ago
      Yes: US - about 300 million Europe - about 740 million
      • 075 11y ago
        I think he was nitpicking your grammar, not your facts
• dylz 11y ago
  There are huge amount of peered ISP that offer cheap servers. OVH and Free Telecom probably host a huge amount of Tor traffic in FR. Easily do 300 Mbps 24x7 for sub-$15/m dedicated server. OVH also has subsidiaries in other EU countries that will geolocate back to those countries (hosted in FR physically).
  • niij 11y ago
    Do you have a link for the service that could do 300mbps for this price? I'd like to setup a server if that's the case.
    • dylz 11y ago
      free.fr - https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ (these are hardware, not VMs) ovh - https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/index.xml https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/index.xml
      • niij 11y ago
        200mbps UNMETERED. That is awesome. Does anyone have experience running a Tor node on free.fr?
        • SuperKlaus 11y ago
          Scaleway unfortunately doesn't accept new signups right now :-/
        • tux3 11y ago
          I run some Tor relays on Scaleway, currently handling close to 100Mbps for some 3.60€/month after tax. Although my uptime isn't exactly spotless, I think I'm getting just what I paid for, and I'd gladly recommend them (if and when they start accepting new customers again).
        • bathory 11y ago
          There is also online.net[1] who are relatively cheap. [1] https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-scg2 https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-scg2
          • tbyehl 11y ago
            I've been using a Dedibox XC SSD for the past six months. Can't beat the value for the, uh, Euro.
          • dylz 11y ago
            I use online heavily, forgot about that. Here's a link to bookmark; https://console.online.net/en/order/server_limited https://console.online.net/en/order/server_limited Occasionally there will be deals like 2xSSD HWraid 8-16 core 32GB/64GB ram for <$50/m there (if it's blank there are no promos).
• Grue3 11y ago
  In general, Internet in Europe is much more censored than in the US.
  • tblt 11y ago
    Interesting theory, I'd have assumed it's a combination of cheaper bandwidth, better peering arrangements and a population almost twice the size of the US.
    • daveguy 11y ago
      Population twice the size in a fraction of the area. Good for low latency connections -- countering one of the downsides of tor.
• uxwtf 11y ago
  Flow looks like transatlantic connection with epicenter in Europe