Hi everyone! A while back, we announced[1] our project to set up a server facility in Italy to host Tor exit nodes. After several weeks of testing, we’re excited to share that our first nodes are now in production, running on our autonomous system. [2] Four of these nodes operate diskless thanks to System Transparency [3] and Patela [4], a small, pull-based tool we developed to configure exit nodes efficiently. To optimize this infrastructure, we’ve worked on multiple fronts, including mTLS for nodes authentication, TPM for crypto operation and nftables rules. In this post[5], we’ll explain how the system works, and we’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback via the mailing list. Now that we’ve completed this initial testing phase, our next goal is to acquire suitable hardware to increase bandwidth capacity. Stay tuned for updates! Bye b [1] - https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2024/12/how-to-bgp-from-your-basement-a... [2] - https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS214094 [3] - https://docs.system-transparency.org/st-1.0.0/ [4] - https://github.com/osservatorionessuno/patela [5] - https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/05/patela-a-basement-full-of-amnes...