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Re:Strength in Numbers: An Entire Ecosystem Relies on Tor by devwastaken on Sunday January 13, 2019 @06:12PM (#18899334)
I've wondered the same. bandwidth is still very expensive at scale. How TOR exit nodes could afford it years ago is a mystery to me. There's some ISP's that host their own in europe, but aren't there still expensive charges when all that bandwidth goes out of their network?
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Re:Strength in Numbers: An Entire Ecosystem Relies on Tor by throwaway2048 on Sunday January 13, 2019 @10:12PM (#18900352)
It is extraordinarily cheap at scale, you can buy a gigabit port that you can blast at 1000mbit all day, every day, forever for around $300 a month (which comes out to about 300 TB of traffic in a month).

If you stick with providers like AWS or Amazon, sure its absurdly expensive, but its yet another way they have a huge amount of markup.

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