Have you guys thought organizing a (very) public Kickstarter.com project for the purpose of raising the funds and creating awareness of need?
.w On May 10, 2010, at 8:06 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > Hi, > > At the moment, 25% of all traffic exits through Blutmagie (thanks > Olaf!). I guess we all agree that this situation is far from optimal. > > Judging from the number of requests in the last months where people > were looking for friendly ISPs, help with setting up, running and > managing Tor nodes, and especially abuse handling advice, I think there > is enough interest to fund another big node. > > I've been in contact with several ISPs lately, asking specifically for > high bandwidth Tor exit node hosting. I have also added their responses > to the GoodBadISPs wiki. > > What I am planning is either a large node (split like Blutmagie), if I > can find enough people to sponsor it, and/or smaller nodes on virtual > machines, eg. for hidden services hosting. I will personally order the > machine, manage it, keep Tor(s) running with mostly unrestricted exit > policies and handle all abuse. The companies selected will not shut > down the serve but pass all abuse to me, WHOIS notices will be adjusted > when possible (unfortunately, only a few of them offered that), RDNS > and notice pages will be set up accordingly. > > I know that this is a controversial topic, and that it would be better > to have completely independent nodes, but I hope that I can earn your > trust. I will happily sign an agreement that I will not log/sniff > traffic. :-) The configuration will be published among sponsors. > > I am open to suggestions here: You as a sponsor might also be > interested in an additional private VPN service, or use the large drive > space as backup purposes, I2P etc. You can of course also be mentioned on > the notice page as sponsor, complete with your company logo. > > If you're interested, feel free to contact me directly. Tell me what > you'd want to give, and what you'd expect for your money. > > At the moment, I am thinking about something like these (monthly): > > $200 100TB - http://www.100tb.com/ > $160 100Mbit/s - http://fdcservers.net/ > 50€ 10Mbit/s - http://www.netrouting.nl/ > > All depending on how many people are willing to participate. > > -- > Moritz Bartl > GPG 0xED2E9B44 > http://moblog.wiredwings.com/ > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/