On 06/26/2014 09:33 AM, Jurre van Bergen wrote:
Hoi,
At hartvoorinternetvrijheid.nl we have been toying with the exact same idea and I think Moritz had the same idea too. Cheap crowd sponsored relays are interesting for several reasons, you feel part of the process as a donator. Next to the fact that, at least we came up with that, that you get statistics of how many people you have helped on to the Tor network, with maybe a few links to relevant censorship news around the world. The donor feels warm from the inside and we get to grow the Tor network.
There is work to be done on this, but there is also already work done on this, I guess we just need someone to coordinate all of this.
Yes, this was one of the ideas I had when I started torservers.net. The quick way was to offer "your own relay" (relay nickname, custom DNS, custom page on IP:80), which we offered from the beginning. Of course it would be nice(r) to have a user interface where you can "spin up your own relay", watch fancy statistics etc -- especially interesting for bridges, where you can now display where the actual users of the bridge came from using OnionOO. My idea was to still run dedicated Gbit/s exit relays, because it is the cheapest "bang for buck", but tune down the fast "unassigned" exit relay and spin up a new instance on a separate IP whenever a user joins the club.
The natural thing to combine this with would be a billboard where you can compete with other relay operators, reach GruntMaster 6000 level etc.