On 06/26/2014 09:33 AM, Jurre van Bergen wrote: > Hoi, > > At hartvoorinternetvrijheid.nl we have been toying with the exact same > idea and I think Moritz had the same idea too. Cheap crowd sponsored > relays are interesting for several reasons, you feel part of the process > as a donator. Next to the fact that, at least we came up with that, that > you get statistics of how many people you have helped on to the Tor > network, with maybe a few links to relevant censorship news around the > world. The donor feels warm from the inside and we get to grow the Tor > network. > > There is work to be done on this, but there is also already work done on > this, I guess we just need someone to coordinate all of this.
Yes, this was one of the ideas I had when I started torservers.net. The quick way was to offer "your own relay" (relay nickname, custom DNS, custom page on IP:80), which we offered from the beginning. Of course it would be nice(r) to have a user interface where you can "spin up your own relay", watch fancy statistics etc -- especially interesting for bridges, where you can now display where the actual users of the bridge came from using OnionOO. My idea was to still run dedicated Gbit/s exit relays, because it is the cheapest "bang for buck", but tune down the fast "unassigned" exit relay and spin up a new instance on a separate IP whenever a user joins the club. The natural thing to combine this with would be a billboard where you can compete with other relay operators, reach GruntMaster 6000 level etc. -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
