We have news! Sort of sad, but also exciting!
The bad: We can't afford to stay in the Westin datacenter in downtown Seattle. The co-location and transit costs are too high.
The good: We're moving our Seattle infra to California where we have a full rack. We're also deploying a new POP in Amsterdam!
Our exit relays have been in a degraded state for a few months now, and as of this evening they are offline. disobey.net and that WebTunnel bridge is also offline, but it will be back online later this week.
The only Tor infra that we have online right now is our obfs4 private bridge. Our Signal proxy is also still online.
We will not be deploying Tor relays in Europe since the concentration there is too high. Our new exit relays will be hosted near San Francisco.
Two of our three volunteer directors live in Europe now, so we just didn't have the capacity to manage our Seattle infra. And we have plans to deploy better remote management going forward!
Stay tuned for more updates in the coming months!
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Seven years ago, when we founded as a tax-deductible 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, we published a "development" page that outlined what we did to become a human rights transit ISP centered on @npub1vwvt...cqgs. We've now republished this on our blog with notes over the past seven years:
"Starting a Human Rights ISP"
If there's any clarification you'd like to see, please let us know!
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Guide to Starting a Human Rights ISP