Hi Isaac, First of all, congratulations on becoming a father!
Any help with the GoodBadISPs document is heavily appreciated. One particularly helpful piece of data would be the number of Tor nodes already running under any given autonomous system - making it easier for the soon-to-be relay operator to choose a less known host, thus improving network diversity. The infrastructure / API's for this we already have, now we just need to write some code: https://metrics.torproject.org/onionoo.html#parameters_as_name After all this is set up, we should launch some kind of campaign in order to incentivize people with some spare cash to host a few relays. For 10 bucks a month, I could , right now, spin up two relays on a single KVM machine with one public IPv4 and one public IPv6 address, under an AS only hosting about 9 Tor nodes. If everything works out okay, then we should phase-out or at-least de-prioritize the likely already wiretapped autonomous systems - talking about Hetzner, Online S.a.s and OVH - and then start shifting traffic evenly to the new, decentralized relays. I know, a lot of wishful thinking - but you gotta start somewhere, right? - William On 27/03/2021, Isaac Grover, Aileron I.T. <igro...@aileronit.com> wrote: > Good morning from Wisconsin, > > Back in 2019, I was involved in a discussion on this list to seek out > hosting providers friendly to Tor exit nodes so that the list on the Tor > Project website could be updated and geographic and provider diversity could > be improved. Because our twins were newborns at the time, the project took a > back burner but I had built up the initial automation and templates for the > contacts. > > Would there be any interest in reviving this project for the aforementioned > reasons? > > Make your day great, > Isaac Grover, Senior I.T. Consultant > Aileron I.T. – “ Because #ProactiveIsBetter ” > > O: 715-377-0440, F:715-690-1029, W: www.aileronit.com > > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
