Good Bad ISPs

11 hours ago (community.torproject.org)

Infomaniak is listed in the France section but it's a swiss company.

  • There is an 18-year-old record (updated in 2008!) about TekSavvy in Canada. The internet was different place back then. This info wouldn’t even relevant anymore as TekSavvy has since taken a business-centric approach in the interest of survival.

    This list is fluffed up, without any checking for veracity. GIGO type of situation.

If you have trouble accessing the site: https://archive.is/MbT8n

Thank you for sharing this, I was previously unaware of this table. While I don't plan on running a Tor node on any VPS or residential ISP, an option to do so signals that they value their customers. I will cross reference this table when picking out my next VPS at the very least.

If you are on the other team, this is also a good list if you want to avoid bad neighbors.

Hosts that don't ban tor nodes probably don't have a great reputation.

  • Not to mention, why on earth would I ever operate a TOR relay or exit node on my home internet connection? Maybe if I could guarantee that it could only be used by journalists or political dissidents, but everything else? No.

    I don't need the authorities at my door every few weeks wondering why some of the most deplorable internet traffic of all time is coming from my house.

  • I think the hosts that Tor recommends against because there are already so many nodes hosted on them like OVH and Hetzner are perfectly happy with their (quite good) reputations.