[tor] Expanding our capacity in Quadranet

[Patrick O'Dohehrty]

Let's delay a week to allow everyone to be there.

I'll follow up w/ a new thread to the list announcing it.

cheers,

p

On 03/11/2017 10:38 PM, Cooper Quintin wrote:
> Argh I didn't see your last message? I'm leaving the country on Thursday so I won't be able to make it.  But if we wanted to do it before then or next Thursday I could join. 
> 
> On March 11, 2017 6:41:00 PM PST, Patrick O'Doherty <p at trickod.com> wrote:
>> In the absence of a reply I'm going to call a shotgun meeting for
>> noisetor this Thursday: 7pm @ Sycamore.
>>
>> We have a bunch of stuff to talk about:
>> * expansion effort in Quadranet
>> * expansion effort in iocoop in Santa Clara
>> * the potential of running bridges as well as relays
>> * helping the tor network expand to the global south.
>>
>> All welcome. Looking forward to seeing you all!
>>
>> p
>>
>> Cooper Quintin:
>>> Yay! Doubling our capacity sounds great to me! Would it be worth
>> meeting
>>> IRL soon to discuss future projects such as more bridges or exits in
>> the
>>> global south?
>>>
>>> On 03/03/2017 12:52 PM, Patrick O'Doherty wrote:
>>>> 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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