From moritz@torservers.net Fri Jul 6 02:35:23 2018 From: Moritz Bartl To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Call for discussion: turning funding into more exit relays Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:35:23 +0000 Message-ID: <172289274180.3881296.18088202489059268295.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2379998789373929821==" --===============2379998789373929821== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, What can I say that hasn't been said by others before... :) We are in contact with reliable ISPs with endpoints in various countries. They would be willing to cooperate on exits at these locations. We have not yet talked about prices. I would say we (as in Torservers.net) are in the position to run multiple Gbit/s servers for prices at below $1/Mbit at "not your typical ISP". In theory, we would be able to fulfill the 12.5 Gbit/s alone. We're about to test a 10Gbit uplink with a Xeon behind it to find out how far we can push a single server. That said, we should discuss and come up with a good organizational structure to reimburse people. Personally, I would only sponsor 100 Mbit/s or more (or maybe even only Gbit). I would set up a template that asks for ISP information, so we can reject too many exits at one place (say, a maximum of 1 Gbit/s or even one server per datacenter?). Do you plan on reimbursing up front for a longer period, or only after? We would likely need the money up front at least on a monthly basis. Another option we have that might be more convenient is to decide on the twelve/thirteen server locations up front and then ask the community to fill the slots. Given that there are places where you get Gbit for around or less than $500, we could use the "extra money" to fund some slower locations. I would very much like to see a high-bandwidth Iceland exit. The last quote I got was 500 Euro for 200 Mbit/s (including hardware) at Advania/ThorDC. -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============2379998789373929821==--