On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:10 PM, teor teor@riseup.net wrote:
On 19 Jul 2018, at 11:34, Conrad Rockenhaus conrad@rockenhaus.com wrote:
To the point - would it be fair to network stability to offer a week long free trial to run a tor instance, well, that is if that's what the user hopefully runs? Would such a model even have an affect on increasing the number of BSD instances we have on Tor presently?
Exits typically see some traffic after a week.
It can take guards and middles a few months to get decent traffic.
So maybe a month-long trial would be more rewarding?
This sounds pretty reasonable. Right now I'm working on trying to automate as much as I can with bsd-cloudinit and such as well as getting the Tax Exempt status paperwork in order, as I'm trying to pursue this as an opportunity as another avenue about the educational and security benefits of using BSD systems. I don't expect to turn a profit...my hope is to break even sometime though.
Anyway, I'm not sure what the level of interest would be, so I figure I would be very conservative and configure the free trial instances with the following parameters for now:
1 vCPU 2 GB RAM 30 GB Disk 10 mbit/Unlimited Traffic
I'll adjust the numbers as I assess demand, I just don't want a potential high level of interest and have to turn people away. Do these numbers sound reasonable? I have room to work within.
I did a horrible job of creating a web page. I had to use something to help me as my web page skills stopped at...html, maybe some JS... people expect pretty these days and I even made the machine that generates pretty pages generate ugly. That's impressive.
Thanks,
Conrad