[tor] Expanding our capacity in Quadranet

[Cooper Quintin]

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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