Hi Conrad: I'm pretty sure I'm taking your offer about the free trial.
I'm having a question, though: I think there are no compiled tor relay packages for BSD, so I may compile it on my own, right ? Livak Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On August 26, 2018 2:49 PM, Conrad Rockenhaus <con...@rockenhaus.com> wrote: > > On Aug 25, 2018, at 6:56 PM, Paul Templeton p...@coffswifi.net wrote: > > > > > About finding sponsors for high speed exits, it could be nice > > > to gather ideas. > > > > Can I ask what is a high speed/capacity exit? For me it would be >10MiB/s > > am I correct? > > Paul > > I’m not advertising, but I run a nonprofit organization that offers instances > to run Tor exits that burst up to 1 Gbit/s for $15/month with no caps on data > transfer and guaranteed bandwidth. One person who runs an exit within this > group has the fastest exit in Canada at this point. $15/mo is three cups of > coffee from Starbucks, a meal at a restaurant, or going to a movie. I have > been told that this is an excessive charge and quite frankly some of the > excuses I read were ridiculous. > > Do people really need to pursue corporate sponsorship when you can get fast > exits starting at $15/mo? Get three guys to give up a cup of coffee and you > have an exit. Done. > > There’s other organizations as well, but I just brought up my own because, > well, I know my own pricing the best. > > Livak- > > Would you like to have a server dedicated just to you? I’m game, I’ll even > chip in, if you put some skin in the game. I have some conditions: > > 1. It has to run a BSD Operating System > 2. No Corporate sponsorship. Corporate Sponsors want governance, which we > don’t want. A sponsor is never hands off. > 3. You must find some people that are willing to chip in to pay for the > bandwidth costs of this server. I’m not going to completely sponsor you. I > have spent enough supporting Tor exits over the past three months. > 4. Over 9000? > > Excluding colocation costs, power, and all of that stuff I pay, it’s > about $85/server, and I’m estimating here, so you’re probably winning in the > end. Get a couple of people to throw you $10, you throw in a couple of bucks, > then bam, done. Easy day, mission accomplished, and not in the Bush way > either. > > Thanks, > > Conrad > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays