[tor-relays] Call for discussion: turning funding into more exit relays

[kupo at damnfbi.tk]

Hi Moritz,
We should probably talk further then since I'm _in_ Iceland atm and 
would also like to see a high capacity node here.
May I ask for your reasoning though? A lot of people on both sides of 
the pond have believed that IMMI <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMMI> 
has been passed here already when it has in fact not (yet). I'm in touch 
with those trying to pass it and it comes up for major review in 
september. Have you tried talking to DataCell 
<http://www.datacell.com/>? They would be much more open to running an 
Exit node and if you talked to them personally might be able to offer 
some discounted rate here.
-kupo

On 07/26/2012 02:14 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What can I say that hasn't been said by others before... :)
>
> We are in contact with reliable ISPs with endpoints in various
> countries. They would be willing to cooperate on exits at these
> locations. We have not yet talked about prices.
>
> I would say we (as in Torservers.net) are in the position to run
> multiple Gbit/s servers for prices at below $1/Mbit at "not your typical
> ISP". In theory, we would be able to fulfill the 12.5 Gbit/s alone.
> We're about to test a 10Gbit uplink with a Xeon behind it to find out
> how far we can push a single server.
>
> That said, we should discuss and come up with a good organizational
> structure to reimburse people. Personally, I would only sponsor 100
> Mbit/s or more (or maybe even only Gbit). I would set up a template that
> asks for ISP information, so we can reject too many exits at one place
> (say, a maximum of 1 Gbit/s or even one server per datacenter?).
>
> Do you plan on reimbursing up front for a longer period, or only after?
> We would likely need the money up front at least on a monthly basis.
>
> Another option we have that might be more convenient is to decide on the
> twelve/thirteen server locations up front and then ask the community to
> fill the slots.
>
> Given that there are places where you get Gbit for around or less than
> $500, we could use the "extra money" to fund some slower locations. I
> would very much like to see a high-bandwidth Iceland exit. The last
> quote I got was 500 Euro for 200 Mbit/s (including hardware) at
> Advania/ThorDC.
>

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