What to use my bandwidth on

Not to be nosy (ok I'm nosy), but why such a large Linode for a tiny static site?

I'm guessing most people here will suggest running a TOR hop (but not a Tor Exit Node).

Tor tries to do good, but I think most of the traffic is bit torrent users attempting to avoid detection.

There's nothing wrong with being nice both to your Linode Neighbors and Linode itself and just use the bandwidth you need for your projects. Not everything has to be turned to "11".

@vonskippy:

Not to be nosy (ok I'm nosy), but why such a large Linode for a tiny static site?

I'm guessing most people here will suggest running a TOR hop (but not a Tor Exit Node).

Tor tries to do good, but I think most of the traffic is bit torrent users attempting to avoid detection.

There's nothing wrong with being nice both to your Linode Neighbors and Linode itself and just use the bandwidth you need for your projects. Not everything has to be turned to "11".
First of all thanks for your reply in regards to your question about why have since a big server it is simply to ensure that should anything happen e.g. large traffic spikes or a simple denial of service attack I have a buffer

And should only ever want to run any additional services I have free memory which will minimise the impact to my very tiny site

@vonskippy:

Not everything has to be turned to "11".

Says the guy who claims to have an R8.

There is only one way to tune non-critical servers. Flat out, full speed, burning bandwidth like it's going out of fashion, and swapping like crazy. Those bars on the Linode manager are targets, not limits.

You tune to 5 and I'll tune to 17.

Anyway TOR as a relay and definitely not an exit node makes good use of bandwidth but there is no doubt some of it is bittorrent nonsense and other junk traffic.

I think you should be able to easily upgrade your linode on the fly when you need/anticipate traffic. A tiny static site would run very well on a 512 I'd say especially if you use something like nginx. as for resources, I wouldn't use them just for the sake of using them all up - after all, overall performance of the machine is shared to some degree…

You can have a Game server !

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CSGO

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@sednet:

@vonskippy:

Not everything has to be turned to "11".
but there is no doubt some of it is bittorrent nonsense and other junk traffic.

So when you say nonsense you really mean people stealing stuff. I'm all for freedom but I'm against abusers of it.

@jebblue:

@sednet:

@vonskippy:

Not everything has to be turned to "11".
but there is no doubt some of it is bittorrent nonsense and other junk traffic.

So when you say nonsense you really mean people stealing stuff. I'm all for freedom but I'm against abusers of it.

Freedom means you are not free to tell people what they can not do.

I don't have any idea what percentage of TOR traffic is used for what purpose but I know some of it is used for very valid reasons. The bandwidth is rubbish though, anyone actually trying to pirate movies though TOR is in for a very long wait.

I run a Tor node, and I know there are plenty of people using it for bad, and maybe illegal purposes. But on the other hand there are people using it to read news, blog, and many other things they would not normally be able to do. There will always be people who use good for bad, but I have tried to use TOR to surf the web…. Its not ideal for that, so like sednet said, bittorrent would be painfully slow.

Before you get all warm and fuzzy on TOR, give this article a read…

http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&mont … rk-Traffic">http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2013-04&post=Detecting-TOR-Communication-in-Network-Traffic

A mirror for debian, centos, or whatever your distro of choice may be,

It's your choice how you spend your money, but I agree that a 2 GB Linode sounds like quite a bit for a smaller static site. If I had to use that budget for webhosting, I'd probably choose to get two to three smaller servers instead of one so that I could have some redundancy in case one server goes down, and if you have the know-how, you could set up load balancing with Linode's NodeBalancer.

@vonskippy:

Before you get all warm and fuzzy on TOR, give this article a read…

http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&mont … rk-Traffic">http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2013-04&post=Detecting-TOR-Communication-in-Network-Traffic

Interesting.

I do believe that anyone running anything seriously illegal as a TOR hidden service will get caught sometime. It should be possible for a smart and well funded agency to figure out likely IPs for TOR hidden services then it's just a matter of getting at the hardware. Disk encryption won't help if the police have physical access to the hardware while it's running. They can read the ram out with custom hardware to figure out the disk encryption keys.

Controlling botnets though TOR may work but it's old-school thinking. Peer2peer botnet clouds with no central command and control nodes are the botnets of the future. Or even better get rid of windows and we will see less of this nonsense.

If your point is that TOR isn't perfect, and is abused by the bad people, then I totally agree. However it also solves some real world problems by helping the free flow of information.