Re: [tor-relays] Call for discussion: turning funding into more exit relays

[Tycho Andersen]

Hi Roger,

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:58:54PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>
> Open questions we need to decide about:
> 
> 1) What exactly would we pay for?
> 
> I think the right way to do it is to offer to reimburse bandwidth/hosting
> costs -- I don't want to get into the business of paying people to
> run relays, and I don't want people to be trying to figure out how to
> "profit". That leads to all sorts of horrible incentive structures.

You might also consider matching operator investment in a relay
(similar to employer charity donation matching programs that exist in
the States). I would continue to be willing to contribute my own money
even with sponsor dollars, but with matching my relay would be able to
take more advantage of the economics of scale. In addition, if the
funding suddenly dries up, the exit node doesn't immediately die, it
just goes back to the original capacity I'm comfortable funding
myself.

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Re: [tor-relays] Can bridge run in tiny VPS

[Tycho Andersen]

Hi Fabio,

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:47:06AM +0100, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
> I've been running a Tor Relay doing 15Mbit/s on chvps.com with 128MB of ram.
> 
> Plenty of kernel messages saying "Hey man, put some more RAM" but i just
> ignored them, added "file based" a +256mb of swap, and the machine has
> been running fine for some more than 1 month.
> 
> This doesn't means it's the perfect environment.

Have you talked to them explicitly about running a TOR exit node? Are
they ok with it? Their prices are much better than my current provider
(though my current provider is ok w/ TOR), so I might consider
switching if they're on board.

Thanks!

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