Submitted 1 day ago by xana@lemmy.zip to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Hello fellow TCP users.
I am currently having a lot of unused bandwidth. I wonder do you have any suggestion what to do with that bandwidth ?. Ideally it should more or less only relay the traffic because unfortunately I don’t have much idle RAM left (something like a Tor-relay node but least risky).
Thank you very much!
You could consider peertube, although I am not terribly familiar with the hardware load
Look in to I2P.
My snowflake-proxy docker container eats 81-95mb RAM atm.
I am curious how much bandwidth it comsumes a month ? And do you have any legal implication for doing that ?
Snowflake is an entrypoint into the tor network, not an exit point. I’m not a lawyer but I don’t think there are any legal implications, or maybe in Russia or Iran. And the whole point is that its traffic is very hard to identify.
it logs out stats ever 6h. The last on my VPS were: 2,7 Gb IN and 120,5 Mb OUT. So in 30 Days it would be around 243 Gb IN and 10 Gb OUT Traffic.
And do you have any legal implication for doing that ?
i run it since years on two Hetzner VPS in Falkenstein, Germany and didn’t get any compains.
The security concerns for the Snowflake proxy operator are minimal. The Snowflake client will not be able to interact with your computer in any way or observe your network traffic, and you will not be able to see their traffic. From the perspective of your ISP it will look like you are connecting to a Tor bridge, which if you are running a Snowflake proxy should be legal and unrestricted in your country. There is no more risk running a Snowflake proxy than running Tor browser.
Source: eff.org/…/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-ce…
more @ snowflake.torproject.org
There’s nothing illegal about using Tor, which was developed and published by the US Navy and supported by the US State Department. Like other users have said, this is not an exit node which is the only type of node that I would be concerned about running.
Definitely look into I2P which, in a nutshell, is a peer-to-peer version of Tor. Hosting an I2P router comes with no legal risk, too.
archiveteam warrior
it doesn’t even require that much bandwidth. can very much be used in conjunction with other stuff.
Why not a tor relay? If you’re not an exit it is pretty darn safe. How about a tor snowflake proxy too? Even easier and safer.
A Syncthing relay, very simple to set up, I always install it when I have no need for a VPS but it’s paid for until the end of the month
I2P outproxy or seeding torrents
What do you mean unused bandwidth? Is that not the normal? Most of the time I’m not using my bandwidth so I guess I have lots of unused bandwidth too.
Well I’ve already paid for it so why not saturate it for the good of the community :D
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| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
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Good bot
I’ve not looked into it much yet, but radicle.xyz seems interesting.
It’s kinda a bittorrent-powerd codeberg and it looks like it’s worth playing around with (even though it might not get you rid of much bandwidth… IDK how popular it is, but source usually doesn’t weigh that much).
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 1 day ago
Linux installer ISO images. Perfectly legal, and very helpful.
xana@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
A very good idea indeed. Do you mean via torrent or is there any way to host it ?
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 1 day ago
I had torrents in mind. You could host them directly I suppose, but discoverability would be an issue.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Torrents for the popular distros have lots of peers, so another seeder wouldn’t be adding much.
I avoid downloading isos via torrent, because when I tried, the client straight up froze for a while dealing with over a thousand peers and sorting out connections.
xana@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Yeah it is true but seeding torrents to sature bandwith is generally a good idea