Re: [RFC] Campaign »Buy/Sponsor a relay.«

[Mike L <jackoroses@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:06 AM, jebusthesaviour <jebusthesaviour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 03/10/2010 10:26 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:

Dear Tor folks,


on the Tor start page [1] there is a message »Help us reach 5,000 relays
in 2010!«

On IRC arma discovered an offer by the British ISP Coldbot where you can
buy 1 Mb/s bandwidth for £9 per month [2].

Although it is quite pricey I find the idea very nice.

»I guess for people caring about privacy but not wanting/able to set up
a server themselves can now be told, you can pay 90 pounds a month [for
10 Mbps] and you will improve the connectivity of the Tor network.« [me
on IRC]

I suggested to contact ISPs for special rates, but arma and Sebastian
pointed out that only getting relays from one ISP would hurt Tor
security-wise. So different ISPs world-wide should be contacted.

So what do you think about this campaign?

I guess the first question is, have you ever been in this kind of
situation where people asked you on how to support the Tor project.

The second question is, is donating [3] working out quite well, i. e.
are a lot of people donating? Would a »Sponsor a relay.« campaign hurt
these fund raising efforts?


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://www.torproject.org/
[2] http://coldbot.com/price/tor
[3] http://www.torproject.org/donate
  

Minimum is 4Mbps, so £36 per month. They do mention they can offer Tor servers located in other jurisdictions, outside the UK. But a dedicated server at your co-location of choice is a definite alternative.

I'll take a sponsor for my exit node :P heh
I pay $23 a month for a vps with a 100 Mbs unmetered pipe (shared*) and can get 1mbs pretty consistently. Coldbot is pretty pricey as Paul mentioned, so I'd definitely check others.
Mike