[tor] Expanding our capacity in Quadranet

[John Menerick]

Sounds good to me.


John Menerick
https://securesql.info

On Mar 3, 2017 3:53 PM, "Patrick O'Doherty" <p at trickod.com> 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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