[tor-relays] Experience hosting exit relay with Costa Rica Servers: crservers.com

[Patrick O'Doherty]

I intend on doing so when I hear back about their DMCA forwarding
option, as I think that'll decide whether they're friendly or not.

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Greg:
> Patrick,
> Do you mind adding this info to the "good/bad isps" wiki? I'm looking
> around for hosting as well and thought we could improve that page a
> little.
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg
> 
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Kenneth Freeman <kencf0618 at riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 09/08/2015 12:14 PM, Patrick O'Doherty wrote:
>>> I received the following response from them:
>>>
>>>> We do not discriminate on the use of any protocol among our customers.
>>>> Nevertheless, if we get complains or any type of pressure from public or private
>>>> entities for illegal activity occurring in your server, we will have to suspend
>>>> service.
>>>> You will be immediately contacted about any issue that arises.
>>
>> This explanation is marvelously vague.
>>
>>> so it would appear that they're not too friendly about hosting exit
>>> relays. I've asked if they can forward all abuse complains to be instead
>>> of immediately terminating service, but I'm not too hopeful.
>>
>> My hunch is that they just don't want to deal with the complaints and
>> legal & administrative overhead -it's more cost-effective just to cut
>> you off. When I first set up Tor some years ago I briefly ran it as an
>> exit node, having sent an explanatory e-mail to my ISP, but I very
>> quickly learned that once they receive a DMCA notice they cut you off at
>> the knees, whereupon you're dealing with "help" desk morons working from
>> a very strict script. Best to run an exit node from a corporate set-up
>> with the legal boilerplate already in place.
>>
>>
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