On 12/16/2013 03:48 PM, Runa A. Sandvik wrote:
On an unrelated note, has there been any success in expanding the Tor cloud project to other cloud service providers? Is there anyway to volunteer to try to help out, if there's a willingness to expand it to other providers? Thanks.
I did some research a year or so ago, but was unable to find anything that was as cheap *and* easy as AWS. There are cloud providers with lower prices, but they do not enable users to publish and use instance templates the same way AWS does.
We're currently working on automating Tor relay and bridge deployment using Ansible scripts [ https://github.com/ansible/ansible ].
All it needs is SSH access, everything else will be pulled in and configured using Ansible. This should then work for all 'cloud providers' (or old-style VPS), and in my eyes is a more sustainable and decentralized way of doing "Tor cloud".
Another component that we work on at the moment is a homebrewed Python monitoring software for relays, which in the long term could be a nice feature to have apart from the generic traffic stats you get from Amazon.
We will have a first report end of this month with the specs, hopefully attracting more people to join the fun. Hannes, Daniel, Christian, feel free to share what you're doing with this list. :-)