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I'm actually mildly interested in doing this, keeping Tor healthy is a worthy goal. Anybody run the numbers (and are there legal repercussions?) on the cost of

• droope 12y ago
  I reckon aws is quite expensive. I'd get a fixed price bandwidth VPS, but I am not sure what hosting to recommend.
  • jlgaddis 12y ago
    Yeah, there are plenty of places cheaper than AWS. From looking into it previously (and following the tor-relays list), it seems that many providers are okay with customers running middle relays (as those don't generate abuse complaints) but frown upon exit nodes (primarily due to the extra workload, AFAICT).
• atmosx 12y ago
  You don't have legal issues for running relays. Traffic is encrypted so can't be analyzed and since you're not an exit node there's no risk of performing illegal actions with your IP address.
• nammi 12y ago
  The Tor Project has a dedicated page for setting up relays on EC2 instances: >The Tor Cloud images have been configured to use no more than 40 GB of bandwidth out per month. We have estimated that customers who do not qualify for the free usage tier will pay up to $20 a month for an instance located in us-east-1 (Virginia). >Customers who qualify for the free usage tier, but who run bridges that use more than 15 GB of bandwidth out per month, will pay up to $3 per month for an instance located in us-east-1 (Virginia). https://cloud.torproject.org/ https://cloud.torproject.org/