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Does anyone find it surprising that Europe seems to have comparatively more nodes/traffic flow than the US?

There are huge amount of peered ISP that offer cheap servers.

OVH and Free Telecom probably host a huge amount of Tor traffic in FR. Easily do 300 Mbps 24x7 for sub-$15/m dedicated server.

OVH also has subsidiaries in other EU countries that will geolocate back to those countries (hosted in FR physically).

Do you have a link for the service that could do 300mbps for this price? I'd like to setup a server if that's the case.

free.fr - https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ (these are hardware, not VMs)

ovh - https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/index.xml

200mbps UNMETERED. That is awesome. Does anyone have experience running a Tor node on free.fr?

I run some Tor relays on Scaleway, currently handling close to 100Mbps for some 3.60€/month after tax.

Although my uptime isn't exactly spotless, I think I'm getting just what I paid for, and I'd gladly recommend them (if and when they start accepting new customers again).

There is also online.net[1] who are relatively cheap.

[1] https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-scg2

I use online heavily, forgot about that.

Here's a link to bookmark; https://console.online.net/en/order/server_limited

Occasionally there will be deals like 2xSSD HWraid 8-16 core 32GB/64GB ram for <$50/m there (if it's blank there are no promos).

I've been using a Dedibox XC SSD for the past six months. Can't beat the value for the, uh, Euro.

Scaleway unfortunately doesn't accept new signups right now :-/

The US population is more than 2 times smaller than the European one, so it makes completly sense to me.

You mean less than half of Europe?

Yes: US - about 300 million Europe - about 740 million

I think he was nitpicking your grammar, not your facts

In general, Internet in Europe is much more censored than in the US.

Interesting theory, I'd have assumed it's a combination of cheaper bandwidth, better peering arrangements and a population almost twice the size of the US.

Population twice the size in a fraction of the area. Good for low latency connections -- countering one of the downsides of tor.

Flow looks like transatlantic connection with epicenter in Europe

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