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Good projects to donate spare bandwidth/resources to?
I'm looking for some good projects to contribute some of my spare server resources to. I have a dedicated server and a couple (mostly) idle VPS's that have spare resources, largely storage & bandwidth. I was curious if anyone had ideas for good projects to contribute to or donate some of these resources?
The dedi is mostly for cpu intensive tasks, and the VPS's are running a few small things that I could do without - but I've paid yearly/quarterly on them and could be put to better use in the meantime.
I'm currently seeding ubuntu/debian torrents, providing some backup space/web hosting to friends, but am open to any/all ideas. I've seen others mention Tor relays which I'm open to, but I don't have any experience with Tor and it kinda makes me nervous.
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we have been hosting mirrors of tails and whonix for a long time. you are welcome to join in
A non-exit Tor relay would be just fine, you can set the data limit per month and the bandwidth rate you'd want Tor to use, after those it doesn't need anything else. I don't think you'd get any abuse as it doesn't provide exits. At least I haven't gotten one.
I would not be nervous with helping the Tor network. There are many very helpful developers out there. Get a hold of one, or check out the mailing list.
You could mirror the Tor-project website. They want as many IP address host the Tor site as possible - its just a basic rsync every couple of hours (40+'ish GB).
The Tor network will also send you a shirt if you have your "fast" node online for 2 months. My fastest Node uses around 1 TB a month.
You might also look at supporting some of the Thin Bitcoin wallets. For example Electrum (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Electrum) would love your help (and a dedicated server). The issue being the N times growth of the Bitcoin chain (storage space).
https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/tshirt.html
Awesome. I think I shall join you
Will spend some time setting up the mirrors tonight.
I got this email bout a free tor shirt two months ago, I wrote them two tjmes and never heard back:(
I decided to use one of my Ramnode box to host a tor relay(non exit).It was sitting idle anyways so i thought why not help the community:P
Don't you have to be signed up to the Tor Weather email list?
Personally I don't even bother, also none of my relays have contact info set (because they're UNDERCOVER
), I'll just consider the fact of me not requesting the T-shirt as a monetary donation to the Tor project equaling to the amount it costs to make and send the T-shirt.
I am.
@rm_
The tee-shirt does look good however...would be awesome to wear this at university.
Who knows maybe more people will know about tor in the process
do you need to pay for the shipment fee?
Although I have no cites, I doubt it. Many members of the Tor Network do not want their financial information leaked.
Join the NTP pool ? Make sure you secure it as well.
I guess I can put my idle VPS to some use. (Non-exit) though.
you didn't received one yet? I thought that you did from what you've said
Just don't get arrested running an exit node like @William ...
Non-exit wouldn't be a problem right?
No, there is (virtually) no risk at all to run a Tor relay node. Hence why some providers accept those despite forbidding exit nodes.
There are lot of good non-profit projects around then why is everyone suggesting tor nodes?
Suggestions?
I'm apparently doing F@H but that uses CPU instead of bandwidth
Now is your chance to mention them. I would like to contribute to some non-profit projects as well, but I dont know any apart from what was mentioned here now.