commit f633ef2871a9790ddb11ba12250e0ea0ac64d262 Author: Karsten Loesing karsten.loesing@gmx.net Date: Sat May 9 09:04:43 2015 +0200
Replace website with discontinuation notice. --- html/index.html | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
diff --git a/html/index.html b/html/index.html index dca1e24..068e134 100644 --- a/html/index.html +++ b/html/index.html @@ -43,12 +43,14 @@ <div id="container"> <header> <div id="hbody"> +<!-- <nav> <ul class="tabs nav"> <li><a id="t1" href="#what_is_it">What Is It?</a></li> <li><a id="t2" href="#get_started">Get Started!</a></li> <li><a id="t3" href="#faq">FAQ</a></li> </ul> +--> <!-- </nav> <ul class="nav "> <li><a href="fa/index.html">فارسی</a></li> @@ -64,6 +66,24 @@ <div class="deco first"></div> <h2>Tor bridges in the Amazon cloud</h2> </hgroup> + +<p>As of May 8, 2015, the <a href="https://cloud.torproject.org/">Tor Cloud project</a> has been discontinued.</p> + +<p>The Tor Cloud project gave people a user-friendly way of deploying bridges on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform to help users access an uncensored Internet. By setting up a bridge, they would donate bandwidth to the Tor network and help improve the safety and speed at which users can access the Internet.</p> + +<p>The main reason for discontinuing Tor Cloud is the fact that software requires maintenance, and Tor Cloud is no exception. There is at least one <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14073">major bug in the Tor Cloud image</a> that makes it completely dysfunctional (meaning that users could not use this particular service to access the Internet), and there are <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=!closed&component=Tor+Cloud">over a dozen other bugs</a>, at least one of them of highest priority. Probably as a result of these bugs, the number of Tor Cloud bridges has <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/cloudbridges.html?graph=cloudbridges&start=2011-04-27&end=2015-04-27">steadily declined since early 2014</a>.</p> + +<p>We have tried to find a new maintainer for Tor Cloud for months, but without success. There have been offers to send us patches, but we couldn't find a Tor person to review and approve them. We encourage everyone who stepped up to start their own cloud bridges project under another name ("<a href="https://www.torproject.org/docs/trademark-faq.html.en">Onion Cloud</a>"?), possibly forking the <a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-cloud.git/">existing Tor Cloud code</a> that will remain available. Tor Cloud is still a good idea, it just needs somebody to implement it.</p> + +<p>Or maybe this is a good opportunity for the community to further look into other approaches for providing an easy-to-deploy bridge or relay, like <a href="https://github.com/david415/ansible-tor">Ansible Tor</a> or <a href="https://github.com/glamrock/cirrus">cirrus</a>.</p> + +<p>If people still want to help users access an uncensored Internet, there remain <a href="https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en">plenty of ways to help</a>. For example, it's still possible to spin up an instance on Amazon EC2 or any other cloud computing platform and install a Tor bridge manually. Or people can donate to organizations that run Tor relays and bridges like <a href="https://www.torservers.net/">Torservers.net</a> or their <a href="https://www.torservers.net/partners.html">partner organizations</a>.</p> + +<p>Note that discontinuing the Tor Cloud project has no effect on existing Tor Cloud instances. Whenever one of those instances was started, a template of the operating system and settings was copied, and removing the template has no effect on the copies.</p> + +<p>Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this.</p> + +<!-- <p>The Tor Cloud project gives you a user-friendly way of deploying bridges to help users access an uncensored Internet. By setting up a bridge, you donate bandwidth to the Tor network and help improve the @@ -111,8 +131,10 @@ and the <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/">AWS pricing page</a> for more information.</p> </div> +-->
<!-- Get Started --> +<!-- <div id="get_started" class="main" role="main"> <hgroup> <div class="deco first"></div> @@ -141,6 +163,7 @@ <br><h3>Obfsproxy Bridges (required ports: 22, 443, 40872, 52176)</h3> <ul class="region-nav"> <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#launchAmi=ami-4a7c1a23" target="_blank">us-east-1<br>Virginia</a></li> +--> <!-- <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-1#launchAmi=ami-18ecc05d" target="_blank">us-west-1<br>N. California</a></li> <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-2#launchAmi=ami-d09403e0" target="_blank">us-west-2<br>Oregon</a></li> @@ -152,10 +175,12 @@ <br / > <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=ap-southeast-2#launchAmi=ami-08920232" target="_blank">ap-southeast-2<br>Sydney</a></li> --> +<!-- </ul><br /><br /> <h3>Private Bridges (required ports: 22, 443, 40872, 52176)</h3> <ul class="region-nav"> <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#launchAmi=ami-567c1a3f" target="_blank">us-east-1<br>Virginia</a></li> +--> <!-- <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-1#launchAmi=ami-1aecc05f" target="_blank">us-west-1<br>N. California</a></li> <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-2#launchAmi=ami-d29403e2" target="_blank">us-west-2<br>Oregon</a></li> @@ -167,9 +192,12 @@ <br /> <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=ap-southeast-2#launchAmi=ami-0e920234" target="_blank">ap-southeast-2<br>Sydney</a></li> --> +<!-- </ul> +-->
+<!-- <hgroup> <div class="deco"></div> <h2>Step by step process</h2> @@ -178,8 +206,10 @@ management console. Simply follow the steps as illustrated below, and your bridge will up and running in just a couple of minutes:</p> +-->
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