-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Some more ideas for you, in case you continue your project:
Lets say you find a suitable hosting provider that fulfills your automation requirements and offers reasonable unmetered instances but might be to costly for a single sponsor. Instead of "offering" relays (only) - that, depending on the actual price, might represent a high entry barrier - you could "offer" tor network capacity. That is actually what matters. Every sponsor can support X mbps of the next upcoming relay for a year, once the next relay is financed you can fire it up. If the sponsor wants his own tor instance name he has to provide for at least 1/2 of the relay cost (if you run lets say two tor instances per server) . Such an approach could lower the entry barrier for potential sponsors. (You will probably want to limit the minimal amount to some reasonable value.) Regarding requirements for automation (hosting provider), I guess these are the minimal requirements: - - automatic order submission (I assume payment is taken care of automatically by charging the account's credit card) - - get the IP address of the new server - - pre authorized SSH public key on every new server Ansible could take care of the rest. > even if using something like salt or ansible you still need to run > a command It doesn't have to be a human. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVM4T5AAoJEFv7XvVCELh047wP/ja1OjSYD3dTTn6HkYSktFZW +p7r0zW6yat6B0oo0viZvirkSeG9PirohpZWKU826bT1kRX+529sAh0UhvxRNvZ6 XTep0yMnre6OJUqMIbz812PGIP/5vyVLhv0e8NQhZEXPXPbqsTFXnlCZeoUQbnCQ qq4m7yFaihQH/vwv/55bx0nscQoJuxCXxTgxqe5EpdPyP6zwbEOmeaF5xWr4UydL i5+fnJSlMpxHsMBVE0jpgiI2267qM6ev8PE3O/Fr3wyep/NdkbB41MIOaDeLTwr/ gh6sJM3+qLiXwYfuBPD7x3kBkNX7p8vLsEfjgnuelqE0uH0c3TpqC9MlxSlK03xU 93/ZoaznWa2XtKWGphBAL479pBCVh25Yhn+ZuhzDBdQrZgtSg/HiarrX0RfEodkB i+WHMkCjg8l8SB/o3UA6pZdzvBYcieymvThUUCs0xyXsbsS66VL++nvWy0CfztdW dVc5L9b1BGPgvpRjWMjKJP0RYNdwmz2ZXE4LPNn8FlmuKxhCKPQNhd3rN/WcYoTg gBGux/c2VlMhUkA0ForI2pkYuu8CIudplW/GUIO8RD1cTqjAp8T9xc/FHSKB1DAx ajaDFRsRjlN20rNVhWk/tiaqdFaWBrjWvR0WiURh3fOHNcCm5nWo1VGj1/g6Nz55 R9OQz8sx7h7k8lHjNpzh =F7TL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
