commit f633ef2871a9790ddb11ba12250e0ea0ac64d262
Author: Karsten Loesing <[email protected]>
Date: Sat May 9 09:04:43 2015 +0200
Replace website with discontinuation notice.
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html/index.html | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
diff --git a/html/index.html b/html/index.html
index dca1e24..068e134 100644
--- a/html/index.html
+++ b/html/index.html
@@ -43,12 +43,14 @@
<div id="container">
<header>
<div id="hbody">
+<!--
<nav>
<ul class="tabs nav">
<li><a id="t1" href="#what_is_it">What Is It?</a></li>
<li><a id="t2" href="#get_started">Get Started!</a></li>
<li><a id="t3" href="#faq">FAQ</a></li>
</ul>
+-->
<!-- </nav>
<ul class="nav ">
<li><a href="fa/index.html">ÙارسÛ</a></li>
@@ -64,6 +66,24 @@
<div class="deco first"></div>
<h2>Tor bridges in the Amazon cloud</h2>
</hgroup>
+
+<p>As of May 8, 2015, the <a href="https://cloud.torproject.org/";>Tor Cloud
project</a> has been discontinued.</p>
+
+<p>The Tor Cloud project gave people a user-friendly way of deploying bridges
on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform to help users access an uncensored
Internet. By setting up a bridge, they would donate bandwidth to the Tor
network and help improve the safety and speed at which users can access the
Internet.</p>
+
+<p>The main reason for discontinuing Tor Cloud is the fact that software
requires maintenance, and Tor Cloud is no exception. There is at least one <a
href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14073";>major bug in the
Tor Cloud image</a> that makes it completely dysfunctional (meaning that users
could not use this particular service to access the Internet), and there are <a
href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=!closed&component=Tor+Cloud";>over
a dozen other bugs</a>, at least one of them of highest priority. Probably as
a result of these bugs, the number of Tor Cloud bridges has <a
href="https://metrics.torproject.org/cloudbridges.html?graph=cloudbridges&start=2011-04-27&end=2015-04-27";>steadily
declined since early 2014</a>.</p>
+
+<p>We have tried to find a new maintainer for Tor Cloud for months, but
without success. There have been offers to send us patches, but we couldn't
find a Tor person to review and approve them. We encourage everyone who
stepped up to start their own cloud bridges project under another name ("<a
href="https://www.torproject.org/docs/trademark-faq.html.en";>Onion
Cloud</a>"?), possibly forking the <a
href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-cloud.git/";>existing Tor Cloud code</a>
that will remain available. Tor Cloud is still a good idea, it just needs
somebody to implement it.</p>
+
+<p>Or maybe this is a good opportunity for the community to further look into
other approaches for providing an easy-to-deploy bridge or relay, like <a
href="https://github.com/david415/ansible-tor";>Ansible Tor</a> or <a
href="https://github.com/glamrock/cirrus";>cirrus</a>.</p>
+
+<p>If people still want to help users access an uncensored Internet, there
remain <a
href="https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en";>plenty of ways
to help</a>. For example, it's still possible to spin up an instance on Amazon
EC2 or any other cloud computing platform and install a Tor bridge manually.
Or people can donate to organizations that run Tor relays and bridges like <a
href="https://www.torservers.net/";>Torservers.net</a> or their <a
href="https://www.torservers.net/partners.html";>partner organizations</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Note that discontinuing the Tor Cloud project has no effect on existing Tor
Cloud instances. Whenever one of those instances was started, a template of
the operating system and settings was copied, and removing the template has no
effect on the copies.</p>
+
+<p>Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this.</p>
+
+<!--
<p>The Tor Cloud project gives you a user-friendly way of deploying
bridges to help users access an uncensored Internet. By setting up a
bridge, you donate bandwidth to the Tor network and help improve the
@@ -111,8 +131,10 @@
and the <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/";>AWS pricing
page</a> for more information.</p>
</div>
+-->
<!-- Get Started -->
+<!--
<div id="get_started" class="main" role="main">
<hgroup>
<div class="deco first"></div>
@@ -141,6 +163,7 @@
<br><h3>Obfsproxy Bridges (required ports: 22, 443, 40872, 52176)</h3>
<ul class="region-nav">
<li><a class="region"
href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#launchAmi=ami-4a7c1a23";
target="_blank">us-east-1<br>Virginia</a></li>
+-->
<!--
<li><a class="region"
href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-1#launchAmi=ami-18ecc05d";
target="_blank">us-west-1<br>N. California</a></li>
<li><a class="region"
href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-2#launchAmi=ami-d09403e0";
target="_blank">us-west-2<br>Oregon</a></li>
@@ -152,10 +175,12 @@
<br / >
<li><a class="region"
href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=ap-southeast-2#launchAmi=ami-08920232";
target="_blank">ap-southeast-2<br>Sydney</a></li>
-->
+<!--
</ul><br /><br />
<h3>Private Bridges (required ports: 22, 443, 40872, 52176)</h3>
<ul class="region-nav">
<li><a class="region"
href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#launchAmi=ami-567c1a3f";
target="_blank">us-east-1<br>Virginia</a></li>
+-->
<!--
<li><a class="region"
href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-1#launchAmi=ami-1aecc05f";
target="_blank">us-west-1<br>N. California</a></li>
<li><a class="region"
href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-2#launchAmi=ami-d29403e2";
target="_blank">us-west-2<br>Oregon</a></li>
@@ -167,9 +192,12 @@
<br />
<li><a class="region"
href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=ap-southeast-2#launchAmi=ami-0e920234";
target="_blank">ap-southeast-2<br>Sydney</a></li>
-->
+<!--
</ul>
+-->
+<!--
<hgroup>
<div class="deco"></div>
<h2>Step by step process</h2>
@@ -178,8 +206,10 @@
management console. Simply follow the steps as illustrated below,
and your bridge will up and running in just a couple of
minutes:</p>
+-->
<!-- Nivo Slider -->
+<!--
<div class='slider-wrapper theme-orman' style="display:none;">
<div id='slider' class='nivoSlider'>
<img src="img/tor-1.png" alt="" title="Click
@@ -210,8 +240,10 @@
done! Congratulations!"/>
</div>
</div>
+-->
<!-- Slider Fallback -->
+<!--
<div class="setupguide">
<div class="step">
<div class="deco"></div>
@@ -284,8 +316,10 @@
</div>
</div>
+-->
<!-- FAQ -->
+<!--
<div id="faq" class="main" role="main">
<hgroup>
<div class="deco first"></div>
@@ -402,21 +436,26 @@
noted.</p>
</div>
</footer>
+-->
</div> <!--! end of #container -->
<!-- Initialize the Image Slider -->
+<!--
<script type="text/javascript">
$(window).load(function() {
$('#slider').nivoSlider({effect:'slideInLeft', manualAdvance: true});
});
</script>
+-->
<!-- activate tabs with JavaScript -->
+<!--
<script>
$(function() {
$(".tabs").tabs(".panes > .main", { history: true });
});
</script>
+-->
</body>
</html>
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