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> I like the idea of running a Tor exit node, but worry about the liability of that. There are also guard nodes and intermediary nodes, which don't cause third
by zrm 6y ago
> I like the idea of running a Tor exit node, but worry about the liability of that.
There are also guard nodes and intermediary nodes, which don't cause third party traffic to exit from your house.
> I run production Linux boxes and networks as my day job. But I don't have machine space at my house, so I'm limited in the number of servers I can put in place.
A single virtual machine host can saturate 10G and allows an arbitrary number of virtual machines, limited primarily by memory and storage. Linux KVM is good enough for Google and AWS and it's free. Get some Socket G34 or LGA2011 workstation with 8+ memory slots, fill it with cheap registered DDR3 and you'll be all set.
But realistically, the biggest benefit of 10G to ordinary people isn't being able to transfer 2500TB a month, it's being able to transfer 25GB in 25 seconds instead of hours.
There are people who upload 5GB to YouTube every day. With garbage upload speeds like 10Mbps, that takes more than an hour and a half. With 10Gbps, not only would it only take five seconds, you don't even need to upload it to YouTube because you can host it yourself.
- blueplanet200 6y ago> you don't even need to upload it to YouTube because you can host it yourself. One of the main value props for YouTube has to be discoverability right? Depends on why you're uploading I suppose.
- zrm 6y agoIt's kind of chicken and egg. Everything ends up on YouTube because people don't have the bandwidth to self-host video, so then people go to YouTube to look for videos. If more of them were self-hosted then the default search method would be one that finds them everywhere. At this point there is more work to be done than only getting people more bandwidth in order to get there from here, but one step at a time.
- linsomniac 6y agoMy primary concern with limited server space is things that are computationally expensive scaling with bandwidth. Serving 10gbps of HTTP Linux mirrors that have internal signatures is different from serving OwnCloud over HTTPS, for example.
- linsomniac 6y agoRe: ToR. Perhaps it's changed, but back when I ran a routing node (probably a decade ago?) it seemed to be of limited use because of the limited exit nodes, limiting the overall bandwidth. But might be worth looking at again.
- driverdan 6y agoRelays help protect privacy. The more independent relays that exist the harder it is to attack the network.