Why can't mtGox (and other exchanges) run through TOR?

[BitVegas]

Not sure if this is a dumb question or not.

But wouldn't running the exchange through TOR make a DDoS impossible? The attacker will never know the IP of the server.

[jojo69]

tor?  you think its slow now, just wait till you try to run it through tor

[wumpus]

Well if you unleash the stampede that was trying to access mtgox yesterday on the TOR network, it will soon be completely unusable for people that really need it such as journalists and activists. So please don't.
 

[BitVegas]

Well if you unleash the stampede that was trying to access mtgox yesterday on the TOR network, it will soon be completely unusable for people that really need it such as journalists and activists. So please don't.
 

But with more people connected to the TOR network doesn't that mean it has more bandwidth available? Thus more people should have no effect.

I could be wrong, still getting my head around tor.

[BadBear]

Tor is pretty slow in general.

[wumpus]

But with more people connected to the TOR network doesn't that mean it has more bandwidth available? Thus more people should have no effect.

I could be wrong, still getting my head around tor.

In a way, yes, if all the new people were truly interested in TOR and configured it as relay node, it'd be great for the network.

Even if the network can handle it I'm not sure how well hidden services handle scaling. I remember reading on the TOR mailing list that load balancing by having multiple hosts with the same private key is not possible, which means that there needs to be one super-high-bandwidth node connected to TOR to handle the service. I am not sure though.