[tor-relays] On the way to more diversity
Hi, I have started to make changes to the Torservers.net website to reflect that we have grown from professional Tor Exit hosting to a state where growth of a single organization is not useful any more. We have refrained from ramping up more exit capacity for quite some time because of that. With the help of TorProject Inc., and by being an example for others to follow, we can now refer to multiple organizations, and become an umbrella organization that distributes funds across these organizations. Legally, we might be able to offer abuse handling services for exit operators. I will discuss this with our lawyer, and keep you updated. With the German charitable Wau Holland Foundation, we have found a first great partner for the new Torservers.net. Instead of donating directly to us, you can now donate to the project account at Wau Holland Foundation. Hopefully, we can find even more partners in the future. All partner organizations have been chosen carefully. We will iron out details on how we distribute funds so we get a more diverse Tor network. Please, talk to us if you want to set up a similar organization. https://www.torservers.net/partners.html https://www.torservers.net/donate.html The next step is to also professionalize bridges hosting. It is quite a shame that we only have a few hundred bridges in total. The situation got worse now that regular bridges are blocked in several countries, and in China only obfs3 bridges work -- of which we only have a few. We are actively on the lookout for sponsors interested in funding bridges. -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] On the way to more diversity
This is excellent news! Thanks for your contribution so far! abuse handling services sounds like a great idea to me, I currently run a relay rather than an exit, but if there was more assistance with abuse handling, Id seriously consider becoming an exit. Thanks again, Matthew On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: Hi, I have started to make changes to the Torservers.net website to reflect that we have grown from professional Tor Exit hosting to a state where growth of a single organization is not useful any more. We have refrained from ramping up more exit capacity for quite some time because of that. With the help of TorProject Inc., and by being an example for others to follow, we can now refer to multiple organizations, and become an umbrella organization that distributes funds across these organizations. Legally, we might be able to offer abuse handling services for exit operators. I will discuss this with our lawyer, and keep you updated. With the German charitable Wau Holland Foundation, we have found a first great partner for the new Torservers.net. Instead of donating directly to us, you can now donate to the project account at Wau Holland Foundation. Hopefully, we can find even more partners in the future. All partner organizations have been chosen carefully. We will iron out details on how we distribute funds so we get a more diverse Tor network. Please, talk to us if you want to set up a similar organization. https://www.torservers.net/partners.html https://www.torservers.net/donate.html The next step is to also professionalize bridges hosting. It is quite a shame that we only have a few hundred bridges in total. The situation got worse now that regular bridges are blocked in several countries, and in China only obfs3 bridges work -- of which we only have a few. We are actively on the lookout for sponsors interested in funding bridges. -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] On the way to more diversity
Moritz, If you put up a full start to finish tutorial (ie sample config file, etc) page on torservers.net for setting up a bridge node and installing/configuring obfsproxy, I'll set up another ~1gbps server to serve as one. No funding needed. Thanks, S On 4/2/2013 9:47 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: Hi, I have started to make changes to the Torservers.net website to reflect that we have grown from professional Tor Exit hosting to a state where growth of a single organization is not useful any more. We have refrained from ramping up more exit capacity for quite some time because of that. With the help of TorProject Inc., and by being an example for others to follow, we can now refer to multiple organizations, and become an umbrella organization that distributes funds across these organizations. Legally, we might be able to offer abuse handling services for exit operators. I will discuss this with our lawyer, and keep you updated. With the German charitable Wau Holland Foundation, we have found a first great partner for the new Torservers.net. Instead of donating directly to us, you can now donate to the project account at Wau Holland Foundation. Hopefully, we can find even more partners in the future. All partner organizations have been chosen carefully. We will iron out details on how we distribute funds so we get a more diverse Tor network. Please, talk to us if you want to set up a similar organization. https://www.torservers.net/partners.html https://www.torservers.net/donate.html The next step is to also professionalize bridges hosting. It is quite a shame that we only have a few hundred bridges in total. The situation got worse now that regular bridges are blocked in several countries, and in China only obfs3 bridges work -- of which we only have a few. We are actively on the lookout for sponsors interested in funding bridges. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] On the way to more diversity
On 04.04.2013 03:06, survivd wrote: If you put up a full start to finish tutorial (ie sample config file, etc) page on torservers.net for setting up a bridge node and installing/configuring obfsproxy, I'll set up another ~1gbps server to serve as one. No funding needed. We will definitely have that, similar to the Tor exit setup (which will also receive some overhaul). -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] On the way to more diversity
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:47:06 +, Moritz Bartl wrote: ... The next step is to also professionalize bridges hosting. It is quite a shame that we only have a few hundred bridges in total. The situation got worse now that regular bridges are blocked in several countries, and in China only obfs3 bridges work -- of which we only have a few. How much traffic is expected on a obfs3 bridge? (I guess it heavily depends on how and where they are announced, esp. as bundle defauls... I have some dozen GB/month to spare.) And do obfs3 bridge help that are run on IPs also used for regular relays? Andreas -- Totally trivial. Famous last words. From: Linus Torvalds torvalds@*.org Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800 ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
