[tor] Expanding our capacity in Quadranet

[Patrick O'Doherty]

We've reached out to Quadranet about the possibility of adding 3 more
servers, which would effectively bring Noisetor's exit capacity to
2Gbps+ (given that our current single host is pushing 500+Mbps).

This bump would up our spend to $3,148/month ($787/month x 4) which
should be sustainable for a while given our cash reserves. I'm working
with Andy to get our accounting back into shape such that we can keep
better tabs on our incoming donations.

Currently I believe our monthly donations are in the region of
$600-700/month. I'll get better figures on this in the coming days.

Given that our accounting is not yet fully up to scratch I propose that
we do the following in order:

a) immediately double our capacity in Quadranet
b) rebab our accounting + get an accurate current account status
c) plan for a fundraising campaign to raise further recurring donations
d) bump our capacity again on the back of the new recurring donations +
our cash reserves.

thoughts?

p


Steve Phillips:
>>
>> I asked some tor folks further after the meeting if Noisetor adding more
>> capacity in our current DC would be valuable; they confirmed that it
>> would be very much so.
>> ...
>> I plan on getting better estimates of our current cash on hand but I
>> believe it's closer to, or over $10k.
>> ...
>> I think that if we were to bring up a new Exit or Bridge we'd also have a
>> strong story to use to raise further recurring donations and awareness
> 
> ...
> 
> Would love to hear further input given the financial implications of
> 
> making this decision however.
> 
> 
> All that sounds awesome Patrick; thanks for your work on this.  Who do
> you need to talk to before moving forward on deploying the NoiseTor funds
> to spin up another exit node or a bridge?
> 
> If it'd be useful, I'd like to help with this; the world needs moar Tor
> :-).  And
> I'd like to leverage everyone's Tor expertise to put together a "best
> practices"
> guide to try to remove some of the uncertainty re: *exactly* what steps to
> go
> through to run a node very safely and effectiveley, especially legal
> ambiguity
> around running an exit node.
> 
> --Steve
>>
>>
> 
> 
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