[tor-talk] Amazon Cloud server

[Karsten Loesing]

Hi Rhona,

On 11/16/11 3:56 AM, Rhona Mahony wrote:
> Why are we encouraged to use the Amazon Cloud VPS's for bridges only?
> Why not set up some as relays?

The short answer is that it's crazy expensive to run a useful relay in
the cloud.  Basically, a relay is the more useful the more bandwidth it
pushes.  And bandwidth is what's expensive here.  More details are here:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4387

Best,
Karsten