<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Hi Steve, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm very glad to hear it! <br></div><div><br></div><div>| recently started my own non-exit relay from my home connection to help contribute, however in my area, the ISP has a monopoly on service and the network speeds leave much to be desired. Running an exit as an individual from a home connection is inadvisable for legal reasons based on my reading, while I imagine that exit bandwidth is an extremely precious resource (currently less than one in six relays is an exit). These two factors combined limit how much I can effectively help the network with my home server. I also run nodes for a few other anonymous networks. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I've played with the idea of setting up a VPS, but this doesn't really address my desire to help contribute exit bandwidth to Tor. I was able to find Noisetor after some searching. I didn't see any indications of life, and now here we are! Is Noisetor currently running any exits for the network, or was exit01 shut down a while ago?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I visited RunARelay.org, and it lead me to Pulse Servers. I appreciate that there is no bandwidth cap there, and I will seriously consider setting up another non-exit relay. I think the interface to the tool is very clean and is exactly the kind of resource I was looking for to see some smaller business hosting options; I suspect that it's not good for the network to have too many relays within the same datacenter or managed through the same provider. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm very exited to see how Noisetor develops, and I will consider becoming a donor as well as I cannot personally contribute to exit bandwidth for the network. <br></div><div><br></div><div>James<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 6:25 PM, Steve Phillips wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div>Hi James,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Noisetor is active, yes! I am now its custodian and recently got <a href="http://noisetor.net" target="_blank">noisetor.net</a> back up and running.<br></div><div><br></div><div>We're about to crunch the numbers and see what Noisetor's budget is, and if there's money in the bank (from PayPal donations), I'll set up a new Tor exit node.<br></div><div><br></div><div>In other tasty onion-flavored news, a friend and I just launched RunARelay.org to make it way simpler for people to choose a Tor-friendly hosting company and create a relay.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Lastly, here's a handy script for creating an Onion service in 20 seconds without manually screwing around with file permissions and all that (PRs welcome to support more than Debian and Ubuntu!) -- <a href="https://github.com/EffectiveAF/insta-onion">https://github.com/EffectiveAF/insta-onion</a> .<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>You know what the world needs? #MorTor :-D<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>--Steve<br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Friday, April 17, 2020, James <<a href="mailto:marsrover7@fastmail.com" target="_blank">marsrover7@fastmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex;"><div><u></u><br></div><div><div>Hello!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please pardon the interruption. Is this project still active? I haven't seen messages in the archive since 2017. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Very Respectfully,<br></div><div><br></div><div>James<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>