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I’m not sympathetic to the author at all. You’re essentially using a home ISP for commercial purposes by hosting Tor relays. If you need resilience, then you re
by mise_en_place 5y ago
I’m not sympathetic to the author at all. You’re essentially using a home ISP for commercial purposes by hosting Tor relays. If you need resilience, then you really ought to colocate at a DC. 10 gbit is not that expensive these days, and you would provide your own switch like mikrotik.
- Taniwha 5y agoWhat he does with the bandwidth he pays for is nobody's business
- superkuh 5y agoAn ISP provides an internet connection. When it doesn't provide an internet connection and only provides a web service with some internet features it isn't upholding it's side of the contract or the advertising. This is far worse than any "speeds up to $x!" lie. And it's not just tor relays that use a lot of TCP sessions. Pretty much all distributed protocols are going to hold open a lot of TCP connections. This is not a bad thing and it isn't a heavy resource usage. It's normal. What's abnormal are wireless telco style restrictions being applied in contexts where there is no justification for them. Saying everyone who does more than use a browser should colocate at a DC is disconnected from reality.
- psKama 5y agoI am not sympathetic to you at all. Running a Tor relay shouldn't require a commercial infrastructure for anyone who wants to. Also, Tor is not the only service he mentions. What I am going to do with my internet is my business, not anyone else's. I shouldn't be limited in any way or form the way I want to use the internet as long as I stay within the limits of law.