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The only reason they won't have cancelled the service is because they haven't done proper customer profitability analysis.

There is absolutely no way a customer running a Tor exit node with ~50Mbps traffic 24/7 on a €4,90pm server is sustainable.




A lot of small providers offer truly "unmetered" bandwidth packages at low cost because for whatever reason they have contractually overprovisioned their bandwidth. They lose nothing by giving away unused bandwidth they have already paid for. Once they attract enough business to consume that bandwidth these deals go away.




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