[tor-relays] DigitalOcean pricing (Re: tomhek - the (new) biggest guard relay operator)

[teor]

> On 14 Sep 2016, at 15:49, Matthew Walker <mwalker at khaosdev.com> wrote:
> 
> If you're interested in knowing what happens when you scale up (in the USA), I recently went on a quest to move from a collection of virtual private servers to some sort of dedicated solution.
> 
> * The cheapest I found in a tor friendly fully dedicated server is 70$/mo for 1Gbps transit (via OVH)

This is somewhat inaccurate: OVH only allows 500Mbps download and 1Gbps upload, and does not even guarantee that 500Mbps for Tor and other (open) proxies. Guaranteed 1Gbps transit both ways will cost you another $105 per month until the end of September 2016, and $210 per month afterwards.

> * The cheapest 1 rack collocation I've found is 400$/mo for 1Gbps transit (via HurricaneElectric); this was substantially cheaper than most quarter and half rack colo options as well.
> 
> This cost is broken out into two things
> * transit (when not using a discount network like HE) you can expect to pay upwards of $1000 / Gbit
> * power (and cooling), somewhere between 10~50$/mo per amp depending on how dense you are and if you want redundant A/B power.
> 
> For not particularly dense installs on modern hardware, you can thumb about 1.5A per rack U. And that modern server is going to set you back a couple thousand as well (though you can get cheap 5year old hardware for a couple bucks if you have the power/cooling to spare.)
> 
> I'm continually surprised by how cheap VPS providers can go. Either they're massively over-provisioning, or they get really good deals in bulk; probably both.
> 
> ~Mwalker
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