[tor] Expanding our capacity in Quadranet

[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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