[tor-talk] Setting up own meek servers

[Nathan Freitas]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017, at 10:20 AM, Jonathan Marquardt wrote:
> So, when meek-google was suspended, one of the recommendations for people
> was 
> to set up their own apps in AppEngine as meek servers.
> 
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/041699.html
> 
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to encourage people to do so, but in a way
> that 
> everyone and not just themselfes can benefit from that? Perhaps they
> could 
> make them public or these things make themselfes public just like with
> any 
> other bridge? Has this idea been discussed before?
> 
> Individual supporters running these reflectors could also cut down on
> costs. 
> And in the case of Google AppEngine, these bridge adresses could perhaps
> be 
> distributed using bridges.torproject.org and GetTor, so Google doesn't 
> instantly notice them.
>

I completely agree with this. There should be a push for community
hosting of all Meek cloud services type, and not just Google.

+n