On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:06 AM, jebusthesaviour <jebusthesavi...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 03/10/2010 10:26 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Dear Tor folks, > > > on the Tor start page [1] there is a message »Help us reach 5,000 relays > in 2010!« > > On IRC arma discovered an offer by the British ISP Coldbot where you can > buy 1 Mb/s bandwidth for £9 per month [2]. > > Although it is quite pricey I find the idea very nice. > > »I guess for people caring about privacy but not wanting/able to set up > a server themselves can now be told, you can pay 90 pounds a month [for > 10 Mbps] and you will improve the connectivity of the Tor network.« [me > on IRC] > > I suggested to contact ISPs for special rates, but arma and Sebastian > pointed out that only getting relays from one ISP would hurt Tor > security-wise. So different ISPs world-wide should be contacted. > > So what do you think about this campaign? > > I guess the first question is, have you ever been in this kind of > situation where people asked you on how to support the Tor project. > > The second question is, is donating [3] working out quite well, i. e. > are a lot of people donating? Would a »Sponsor a relay.« campaign hurt > these fund raising efforts? > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > [1] http://www.torproject.org/ > [2] http://coldbot.com/price/tor > [3] http://www.torproject.org/donate > > > Minimum is 4Mbps, so £36 per month. They do mention they can offer Tor > servers located in other jurisdictions, outside the UK. But a dedicated > server at your co-location of choice is a definite alternative. > I'll take a sponsor for my exit node :P heh I pay $23 a month for a vps with a 100 Mbs unmetered pipe (shared*) and can get 1mbs pretty consistently. Coldbot is pretty pricey as Paul mentioned, so I'd definitely check others. Mike