[tor] Expanding our capacity in Quadranet

Patrick O'Doherty p at trickod.com
Sun Mar 12 02:41:00 UTC 2017


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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