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Someone able to colocate a realy tiny SBC in Europe
Hi lowendtalkers 
I am looking for someone that is willing/ able to colocate a realy tiny SBC (single board computer) in his DC. The board has a size of 5x5x4 cm (LxWxH) but Gigabit LAN, and as it will be an exitnode for the Torproject there will be a continous network traffic of ~80 MBits all the time.
We have two of these placed in two different DC‘s already, but spreading more boards over different uplinks is the prefered way.
What is needet:
- EU power socket (consumption: 4-5 watt max.)
- 1x IP address (can be a re-used one)
- 100 MBits network connection
- AC would be nice but is not absolutely necessary
- Unmetred/ unlimited traffic
- Location: Anywhere in Europe (exept Germany)
In the other DC‘s we use, we have a fixed price of 40€/year, all includet.
We care about incomming abuse reports in a fast and professional way!
Someone here that can hold that price and that is willing to help us out?
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In other words: more drug dealers than journalists would be using them.
FranTech is one of a few than allows it, on their dirty fibers.
You ask special service such as non-standard colocation, and the usage is actually a tor exit node with constant 100Mbps out which is sure to generate abuse or worse. Yet you expect to get all this for almost free?
It would be far cheaper for you to do this with 1U rack server.
@MarkLuun what kind of box is this?
I might be interested in getting one and throwing it in the colo space.
Unless you feel like colo one here in Texas for TOR.
How do you do that when you're hosting a tor exit node?
You explain what Tor is and that you don't have anything to identify anybody. You can also offer to block them (the one who send the abuse mail) in your torrc, but that is pretty useless in my opionion because none of the humans who wrote mails did ever answer on replys from my side.
Beside that there isn't anything you can do anyways. 99,999% of abuse mails are automated spam anyways, so forwarding abuse to /dev/null would be also a good way to handle abuse for the hoster.
Important stuff comes via fax or call and not via mail, so it is no problem to do that.
Wait
people still fax?!
Netcraft does, I think they are the only fax senders to us in the last couple of years.
This reminds me of an interesting incident. In some corner (some industries) of the world, people are no longer use e-mail. When I mentioned he can mail me, he said "Wait
people still mail?!"
These are just prejudices from people that never took a closer look on this important project.
But you are right with FranTech, they allow exits. But there are many more
These are NanoPi boards by FriendlyElec.
Thanks for your offer but USA is not that nice for exitnodes
I run exit nodes and I know a host that has quite a few exit nodes as well here in the states.
Exactly! And as we use a reduced set of exit rules in gererall the abuse reports floating in are not more then with any VPN. And no one cares about hosting a VPN service
Yes there are exits in USA. But there are big differences in law to europe. We know the rules to follow in europe and how stay safe here. But I could not say the same for USA.
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But maybe things change some day and we will place a board in your DC
Law enforcement does and they are the only ones you care about.
Im a dev on Armbian project so I have lots of SBCs. Would be fun to stick one in a colo. Do you accept other SBC form factors or just RPI form factor
We do accept other SBCs like an Intel Nuc, Ubiquiti EdgeRouter, BananaPI, etc.
Send me a PM and let me know what you have.
~Josh
Still searching for a DC in Europe that can colocate this tiny board.