[tor-relays] Cloudflare Onions Beta and Network Stability

[Dave Warren]

On 2018-08-20 15:39, DaKnOb wrote:
> HOWEVER, Cloudflare doesn’t need to hide their location. Everyone knows 
> their servers. So they can use single hop Onion Services, and not the 
> traditional three hop ones.
> 
> That means that in terms of total traffic, they will use 43 + (3*5) = ~ 
> 60 Gb/s, out of the ~ 90 Gb/s available.

One thought that comes to mind: Doesn't this same traffic already likely 
flow through tor?

Right now browsing my personal blog from TBB uses 'x' number of bytes 
which pass through relays and an exit, won't the primary difference be 
that we no longer require an exit by routing directly to a Cloudflare 
hosted single hop onion service?

This attention might bring more users to using Tor which is a separate 
and valid concern in terms of anticipating growth.

I'm still waiting for Cloudflare to activate me on this beta program to 
be able to explore how well it actually works.