[tor] Project Still Active?

[Steve Phillips]

Hi James,


> Running an exit as an individual from a home connection is inadvisable for
> legal reasons based on my reading
>

Absolutely; don't run a Tor exit from home.


> 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.
>

Consider donating to noisetor.net and Tor exit bandwidth is exactly what
you will be increasing!


> Is Noisetor currently running any exits for the network, or was exit01
> shut down a while ago?
>

exit01 was shut down 1-2 years ago but exit02 will be up soon provided that
budgetary constraints do not prevent us from doing so; I think we'll be
good.

I visited RunARelay.org, and it lead me to Pulse Servers.
>

Yeah we summarized the information crowdsourced on
https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/good-bad-isps/
so people don't need to dig through all that data, most of which is quite a
few years old anyway.


> 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.
>

Exactly, which is why the recommendations from RunARelay.org do not include
the hosting providers that Tor said not to use; at
https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/good-bad-isps/
they say:

Try to avoid the following hosters:

    OVH SAS (AS16276)
    Online S.a.s. (AS12876)
    Hetzner Online GmbH (AS24940)
    DigitalOcean, LLC (AS14061)


> 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.
>

Thanks for considering, James!  And if you have any recommendations for how
to make RunARelay.org better, I'm all ears.

About to add this feature where a user can receive the tutorial
instructions over SSH, which I'm hoping people will think is pretty awesome
and novel.  Plus we're implementing more of the interface design -- Tim
Sullivan did an amazing job -- and fixing a couple CSS bugs on the mobile
version.

Onward and upward,
--Steve


On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 6:25 PM, Steve Phillips wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> Noisetor is active, yes! I am now its custodian and recently got
> noisetor.net back up and running.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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!) --
> https://github.com/EffectiveAF/insta-onion .
>
> You know what the world needs? #MorTor :-D
>
> --Steve
>
>
> On Friday, April 17, 2020, James <marsrover7 at fastmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello!
>
> Please pardon the interruption. Is this project still active? I haven't
> seen messages in the archive since 2017.
>
> Very Respectfully,
>
> James
>
>
>
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