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Market => Product offers => Topic started by: Ting on September 05, 2012, 10:35 pm

Title: Hosted Virtual Server w/ Tor network connection
Post by: Ting on September 05, 2012, 10:35 pm
Hi, is there any interest in a virtual server which is connected to tor only? So, the VM would not have an IP which you reach on the clearnet, and all internet communication would be done thru tor. It would not be terribly fast for interactive shell sessions, but that is the nature of tor.

Example:
CentOS Linux
Root access
Tor Connection
SSH/www/ftp/mysql access (any software you can install would work)
30GB Hard Drive
1x 2400Mhz CPU
2GB system memory
3-5 btc/mo

with this, you could host onion websites (script to deploy onion website provided- easy) and essentially host anything else on the tor network. The OS would communicate over tor by default and will have a non routable IP address assigned.

-Would anyone trust it (could be a huge LE collection)?
-Even if you do not trust it, do you think there would be an interest for hosting "non sensitive" info?
-Anything that you can think of to increase trust? - ie encrypted volume
Title: Re: Hosted Virtual Server w/ Tor network connection
Post by: BigEasy on September 05, 2012, 11:27 pm
-Would anyone trust it (could be a huge LE collection)?
-Even if you do not trust it, do you think there would be an interest for hosting "non sensitive" info?
-Anything that you can think of to increase trust? - ie encrypted volume

Hi ting,  There are people doing such and have been for a while, but as for the actual vending of such an item. I'm not sure anyone would trust you at all and really when it comes down to your safety and freedom, people probably shouldn't (nothing personal). 

At best I could see some type of guide on how to create such a setup, I too have personal knowledge of how to do such. But personally I would much rather see such a guide be in the public domain so others could add to it and make it better for others to use and in the end be more secure..
Title: Re: Hosted Virtual Server w/ Tor network connection
Post by: Ting on September 06, 2012, 02:08 am
Yea that is what I figured too. Thx for the info.