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[–]bastard_operator 52 points53 points ago

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Are you hosting this in a church or something?

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 20 points21 points ago* 

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Yes (not really, but it is for one). This was originally for sermon/video streaming (for a fairly fundamentalist group). It didn't take long to find out that 95th percentile bandwidth is terrible when you get low traffic overall, and massive spikes on weekends. (95th is good with steady 24/7 traffic).

Part of the reason why the DC was chosen is due to no 'bad neighbours' - not allowing pornography, etc.

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 8 points9 points ago

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How'd you guess that anyways

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points ago

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Explains the controlling aspects/censorship.

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 10 points11 points ago

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Remind me to see if I can find the video of four people laying hands on a rooted server.

[–]Shananra 0 points1 point ago

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Please post this if you can. Just your description had the best mental picture ever.

"I command the evil spirits that have rooted this server... OUT!"

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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"where has Windows gone sir?"

[–]nemec 6 points7 points ago

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See that guy peeking in your window?

[–]bastard_operator 4 points5 points ago

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Just your descriptions. I've never encountered a host that is as restrictive of that.

Also: I control the internet.

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[–]Velk 0 points1 point ago

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rediculous restrictions for absolutely no reason would mean this is southern baptist not catholic. Get your religion right man

[–]anshu1234 -5 points-4 points ago

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lolz. i agree.

[–]sugarbabe 204 points205 points ago

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Donate to wikileaks.org.

http://wikileaks.org/

[–]libraryinfinite 81 points82 points ago

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Lurked daily for two years and joined just to upvote/suggest this.

[–][deleted] 84 points85 points ago

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Well, that's kind of anticlimactic.

[–]Triedd 13 points14 points ago

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I couldn't find the words 'til I read yours.

[–]kordless 8 points9 points ago

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Apparently you're fluent in markup though!

[–]zaken 22 points23 points ago

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You know there is that 'formatting help' button...

[–]incant 6 points7 points ago

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Right, using asterisk for emphasis is totally arcane. He must be one of the anointed if he knew their true nature. Conspiracy!

[–]brendanmccue 1 point2 points ago

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It's markdown actually. Tumblr and Stack Overflow use it too.

[–]PurpleSfinx 0 points1 point ago

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At some point they've probably seen other comment mentioning how you italicize text by putting asterisks around it.

[–]Kennie_B -1 points0 points ago

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Suggest what?

[–]karmaval 1 point2 points ago

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Have my upvote. Nobody gets downvoted for asking a (stupid?) question on my watch.

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[–]karmaval 0 points1 point ago

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Yeah, it slips through their fingers like an oiled-up pig.

[–]CrazySpaniard 0 points1 point ago

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I don't know how to respond to this

[–]cheekym -1 points0 points ago* 

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*Spits*

I lurked for 4 years before I made this account.

[–]sugarbabe 10 points11 points ago

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Here is the text from their request, sounds like a perfect fit.

Support us technically

WikiLeaks is currently overloaded by readers. This is a regular difficulty that can only be resolved by deploying additional resources. If you support our mission, you can help us by integrating new hardware into our project infrastructure or developing software for the project. Become patron of a WikiLeaks server or other parts of our technology, adding more pillars to the stability and balance of the WikiLeaks platform. Servers come trouble-free and legally fortified, software is uniquely challenging.

If you can provide rackspace, power and an uplink, or a dedicated server or storage space, for at least 12 months, or software development work for WikiLeaks, please write to wl-supporters@sunshinepress.org

[–]Nick4753 4 points5 points ago

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Sure... but that would open up a lot of the same issues as running a tor node

Namely possible legal harassment and ddos attacks

[–]Edman274 -1 points0 points ago

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Ehh... not really, because this isn't a tor exit node, it's a relay as far as I can tell, and it only relays Wikileaks, which isn't a pornographic website and even if there's questionable content on the website, it could be SSL encrypted

[–]_Spy_ -4 points-3 points ago

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yeah and support sensationalist bullshit

[–]98acura 28 points29 points ago

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With all the restrictions, its not really surprising that it sits unused.

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[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 5 points6 points ago

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What does this mean?

[–]RazzleFrazzle 19 points20 points ago

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They want you to host a TF2 server.

[–]Kittycide 1 point2 points ago

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[–]mferrari3 1 point2 points ago

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You could run a game server for a game a lot of redditors love. There has been talk lately of a new one and afaik it would not take up too much of your bandwidth, giving you additional places to donate to as well.

[–]bucketmonster 4 points5 points ago

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I can vouch for this.

[–]kiwibonga 1 point2 points ago

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Sorry, but if he can't run an IRC server, he probably can't run a game server :S

[–]_qz 0 points1 point ago

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I doubt it. I currently provide a free 24 slot server to them and it never sees any traffic.

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[–]_qz -1 points0 points ago

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74.117.238.14:27016 Reddit KOTH Classic - Match Server

[–]Arelius 0 points1 point ago

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Yes, TF2 server, I could get you the hardware.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

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Please stream high quality Opera music 24/7.

[–]deweydb 11 points12 points ago

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I would love to restart my radio stations. It has been years since i could afford a good shoutcast relay that would run at 320kbps. Check out some of my projects here: www.deweydb.com

Cheers, Dewey

[–]nextgeneric 13 points14 points ago

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Resell.

[–]sugarbabe 2 points3 points ago

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Resell and donate the income if you feel the need to be altruistic.

[–]kordless 3 points4 points ago

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Donate it to Grub: http://grub.org

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points ago

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How about game servers?

[–]leeharris100 1 point2 points ago

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Probably one of the more cost effective items as gameservers take up very little bandwidth and you can rent them for a lot.

[–]rogue780 1 point2 points ago

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Game servers, depending on the game, can be CPU hogs, however.

[–]tcp -2 points-1 points ago* 

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I like this option, but he could probably do something more interesting with that amount of bandwidth. Also, it sounds like he can't put any kind of hardware he wants in.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

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Me and many others are in need of a Reddit mirror. Yes I know others exist but they are either blocked or just do not work properly.

[–]c0cky 2 points3 points ago

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So you're sure you can't even run a Tor non-exit node? I can understand your ISP not wanting you to route traffic from Tor out to the internet, but would they object to you routing encrypted traffic solely inside the Tor network? 3-5 Gbps of extra capacity would likely have a noticeable positive impact on the Tor network.

You could probably also sell your bandwidth to smaller providers on WHT.

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 1 point2 points ago

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Tor anything is explicitly forbidden. The bandwidth can't be sold.

[–]uncollected 4 points5 points ago

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What are these restrictions based on? Running a Tor exit node is a great deed.

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[–]uncollected 0 points1 point ago

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That's true, but with that kind of bandwidth it would be very helpful.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points ago

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You should seed torrents of Linux distros.

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 15 points16 points ago

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forgot to add - p2p of any kind is forbidden because they think it's "illegal" for some ridiculous reason.

http mirrors might work, but there isn't too much disk space to go around

[–]atbnet 27 points28 points ago

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Where the hell are you hosting this stuff? China?

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points ago* 

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Looks like the server is located in Vatican City. Or Heaven.

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points ago

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Nah, I'm sure you can get Linux in heaven.

[–]Crailek 0 points1 point ago

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It's required.

[–]jayathecat 0 points1 point ago

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We could totally use a proxy in heaven! Who could argue with that.

[–]axusgrad 1 point2 points ago

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Direct download is OK, but torrent hosting is not... haha

[–]terremoto 0 points1 point ago

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I have a full copy of several Debian repos on my system and there only on the mid-tens of GBs, around 20 to 50.

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[–]terremoto 0 points1 point ago

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Assuming you didn't reply to the wrong person, I keep synced copies of the repos for personal use.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Split up the bandwidth and resell making more than you pay back for it

[–]shablamoid 1 point2 points ago

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Talk to a non-profit about hosting their site(s) for free. My company hosts a couple sites for a Dystonia Foundation, Tyler's Hope

[–]Sylph 1 point2 points ago

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Reddit Radio?

edit: Oh, that already exists apparently. Well. Still, some kind of radio station isn't a bad idea.

[–]l1ghtning -1 points0 points ago

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I smell licensing/legal red tape. Doubt OP would have time/effort to their way through.

[–]nefastable 0 points1 point ago

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I think that Radio Reddit only features music made by redditors, which makes legality a non-issue. I think.

[–]dik-dik 1 point2 points ago

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[–]Nick4753 1 point2 points ago

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CoralCDN is a closed system run only on approved (almost all educational) networks

[–]Rivensteel 2 points3 points ago

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Imgur is always short on bandwidth, but I would worry about your data cap. I like the idea of donating it to charity from ambiversive, though.

[–]martinmarkovski 1 point2 points ago

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Archlinux/CentOS/AnyKindOfLinux mirror?

[–]OrthogonalThoughts 0 points1 point ago

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I HATE YOU! /jealousy

[–]redditFTW1 0 points1 point ago

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sure i would love more bandwidth, then again we all would wouldn't we?

[–]SensaiNova 0 points1 point ago

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What about a massive reddit ventrilo server?

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 0 points1 point ago

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mumble - yes

ventrilo - no

look at vent's absolutely absurd and stupid as hell licencing restrictions.

[–]SensaiNova 0 points1 point ago

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Never heard of mumble before this, but it sounds cool!

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 0 points1 point ago

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[–]mc0ty 0 points1 point ago

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hey, would you care to set up a vpn server for gaming? this neat little gaming community (around 50 people) currently plays via tunngle.net, a p2p-vpn which is not too reliable. having our "own" vpn server for lan games would be really sweet.

[–]chiefmonkey 2 points3 points ago* 

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[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points ago

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Wtf is that?

[–]chiefmonkey 0 points1 point ago

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[–]mortiferous -1 points0 points ago

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Sounds to me from the comments and the description that about the only thing you can host are extremely conservative bible thumpin' websites about having no fun at all. I think i'd rather throw your bandwidth in the garbage.

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 14 points15 points ago

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hardcore amish HARD CORE BARELY LEGAL XXX

LOOK AT HER SHE IS SHOWING HER ANKLES

[–]mortiferous 0 points1 point ago

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sarcasm approved.

[–]lollersk8z 0 points1 point ago

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Is this 5 Gbps unmetered bandwidth?

[–]dotwaffle 3 points4 points ago

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95th percentile - it even says that in the title. He's basically got either a 10Gb/s line or a bunch of 1Gb/s bonded, and nothing to do with it. I'd be interested in hearing where the end-point is, though.

[–]kiwibonga 0 points1 point ago

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Start a private-file-sending site (à la yousendit). Load it with popups. Make it easy for people to use it as a warez hub, but put disclaimers and facilitate the copyright claim/takedown process for any illegal files users might upload. Wait for the $$$ to trickle down on you.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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What's your commit and what's the cost per meg? How many IPs? How much rack space do you have? What's your power cost? Is the bandwidth any good or is it cogent or something?

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 2 points3 points ago

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It is not gameserver-quality bandwidth, it is cheap plentiful singlehomed Cogent for what is basically massive file transfers.

Commit is somewhere in the 4gigs, we have 5g linespeed split into GE's and bonded where needed. Disk is via ATA over Ethernet and I think some iSCSI. 4x/48 and 1x/26. Power is .. not sure. Cost is close to $1/mb, can't disclose specifics due to contract.

IP4s are owned by cogent (38.x). Not own ip space.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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How much room do you have for new servers? How many IPs?

[–]thatjoe 0 points1 point ago

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If you're looking to relay a shoutcast stream, reddit has an unofficial radio station.

[–]dmgenp 0 points1 point ago

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donate bw to di.fm

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 0 points1 point ago

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DI is sister networks with Sky, which hosts a New Age station.

[–]zumpiez 1 point2 points ago

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...WOW, seriously? They're THIS picky?

[–]meor 0 points1 point ago

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There's some distributed computing client that gives you money per minute as it's running. The client checks up-ness of web sites and these web sites pay people to verify they're up.

[–]masterm 0 points1 point ago

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name please?

[–]meor 0 points1 point ago

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Gomez peer.

http://www.gomezpeerzone.com/

I've never tried it, I just noticed it once.

[–]semianonymousacc 0 points1 point ago

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Hulu + dailyshow + colbertnation (and any other USA-only content) mirror for Non-Americans.

This would consume all your bandwidth, I have no doubt about it. We Canadians HATE it when we want to view some reddit links and cant due to location restrictions.

This would quickly be blocked by Hulu and others unless you evenly distribute the requests among your pool of IP addresses (lets hope you have more than just 2).

I would be more than happy to help set this up, as I'm sure other redditers would as well.

Also, regarding your other post ( http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/c4tif/reddit_your_favourite_location_for_ordering/ ): I work at a datacenter, and a colo customer that I've spent some time escorting has a bunch of SuperMicro equipment that he claims has served him well. I'd have to agree with evilhamster and suggest the same.

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 0 points1 point ago

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More than 2, less than 4.

[–]semianonymousacc 0 points1 point ago

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lets do it :) and see how long it takes for your "More than 2, less than 4." IPs to get blocked :P

[–]calvin521[!] -2 points-1 points ago

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Host video game servers.

[–]phantomfigure -3 points-2 points ago* 

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SETI @ Home

edit: I clearly confused computing resources with bandwidth.

[–]lollersk8z 6 points7 points ago

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Computing resources are what's needed for this more than bandwidth.

[–]khyberkitsune -5 points-4 points ago

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If you don't have the bandwidth to send the information your added processing power is useless.

Try running SETI on 56k dialup. Yes, I have.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

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No offense, but I prefer things like Folding @ home, or something a little more practical.

[–][deleted] ago

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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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More a CPU donation than a bandwidth donation though..

[–]incant -1 points0 points ago

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Tor would really be the best cause to donate bandwidth to. You can run a "middleman" relay if your host forbids proxies. Unlike an exit node, relays only connect to other nodes in the network and relay encrypted data.

The list of nodes is public however. If your ISP really is some sort of mecha-nazi that would actually go snooping around proxy lists, the alternative is to run a bridge server, which does not appear on any published list. These are accessed by people in countries that block all tor nodes. They send an e-mail to an address which replies with the key of a "bridge" node. These nodes act as a hidden first hop into the tor network

If you worry about the moral implications of transporting that kind of traffic, I recommend the following reading:

http://www.torproject.org/faq-abuse.html.en

The gist is that real criminals don't need tor, as they can achieve much better anonymity through criminal means, e.g. building a relay network out of zombies, stealing cellphones.

Also, here's the same info except written for someone who has just detected abuse coming from a tor node: http://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=contrib/tor-exit-notice.html

Notable sentence: "[...] the social need for easily accessible censorship-resistant private, anonymous communication trumps the risk of unskilled bad actors, who are almost always more easily uncovered by traditional police work than by extensive monitoring and surveillance anyway."

[–]anshu1234 1 point2 points ago

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he said No tor. heart broke.

[–]incant -1 points0 points ago

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Yes, but running a non-exit node isn't the same as running an exit node. Notably, it's all just encrypted traffic between other tor nodes, no actually proxying to the rest of the Internet.

[–]l1ghtning -1 points0 points ago

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http://www.majestic12.co.uk/

Make the admin of this project think "WTF - All my birthdays are come at once!".

[–]Pixelpaws -1 points0 points ago

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Given the sheer number of restrictions, eat whatever early termination fee you're on the hook for and get out of the contract. There's no sense paying for something that you can't use for anything remotely useful.

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 0 points1 point ago

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I may be wrong but from what I hear from the upper level people is that there is no ETF - you essentially have to pay off the entire contract to exit.

[–]Drluv -1 points0 points ago

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Run an Urban Terror server....

[–]interweb_repairman -2 points-1 points ago

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Urban Terror: The only online FPS capable of setting me into a comatose level of sleep...

[–]Drluv 0 points1 point ago

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Tell me a good one then....

[–]interweb_repairman 0 points1 point ago

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BC2.

[–]ambiversive -2 points-1 points ago

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Use it for charity work.

[–]rajulkabir -1 points0 points ago

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Meaning what exactly?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Well, the OP could start calling non profits they like and see if they need it.

[–]rajulkabir 0 points1 point ago

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I do a lot of IT work for nonprofits and I have no idea what I'd do with bandwidth that doesn't also come with disk space, and which can't be used for proxy servers.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

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Yeah, here in the UK getting free hosting for charities/not-for-profits is not very difficult, and I have been surprised to see that in the US such organisations pay. There are plenty of small outfits who need a web presence, but only have the staff for a small static site.

(Here, we get to use big organisations' backup servers. It proves that they are in full working order. We know that we could go offline if they had an emergency.)

[–]AneesYounis -2 points-1 points ago

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Whatever you do don't mention this in the confessions box at the church anytime soon, because the priest will introduce you to his high-tech camera and his NSFW images of the choir boys.

[–]Evilclicker -1 points0 points ago

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Disk space costs nothing in modern computing why so stingy on the space?

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 0 points1 point ago

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RAID10 SSD and RAID10 SASCSI arrays. (mounted separately - videos would be stored on SCSI, databases and anything required to be fast will be on the SSD mountpoints)

It isn't cheap, and a lot of the disk space is already used up for archives. I don't have too much to work with.

[–]anshu1234 -1 points0 points ago

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Donating eh.... humm you will probably help wikileak the most . Or if you are into gaming, youtube.com/huskystarcraft and youtube.com/hdstarcraft , this guys are arranging tournament and casting starcraft games for free, you may donate it to them, this are just some guys doing the casting for entertainment, but i am sure they can spin something wonderful if they have bandwidth like you have to donate.

[–]tflordmalakt -1 points0 points ago

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Game servers.

[–]_qz -1 points0 points ago

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It seems like you are getting charged a lot for what you have...I have 1500 Gigabytes (100mb/s) of gameserver-quality bandwidth per month for $45/month including a 1U rack and power. This is housed in Chicago as well so it's not some bumfuck location...Good for you though wanting to donate what you do have.

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 0 points1 point ago

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That's less than 5Mbps.

[–]_qz -1 points0 points ago

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True, but if I go over that limit it is still very cheap. And my bandwidth is very high quality. I ping from NY to my box at around ~25ms.(edit: just tested my claim and it is consistent, no spikes). I can also push 100mbps with no issues.

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 0 points1 point ago

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It is not cheap once you start scaling.

[–]_qz -1 points0 points ago

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You seem to have crossed from fact into guessing. I pay $45/month for the whole thing, not just bandwidth. Power (for a 2x quad core i7 series Xeon, 12GB of RAM, 2x velociraptor 300GBs), 1U rack location(the datacenter has full redundant power supplies, excellent cooling/HVAC, kept tidy, 24/7 security), and the bandwidth. I've used a lot of datacenters over the years and this one is by far the best one I have come across. Just yesterday I needed an IPKVM (recompiled kernel, broke it) and it was setup and provided at no cost within 35 minutes. Every other datacenter I've been with wanted money just to setup the IPKVM and wanted to charge me by the hour as well.

[–]zoomacrymosby -2 points-1 points ago

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You are not going to tell us the name of the datacenter?

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 0 points1 point ago

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i jokingly submit cihost

[–]_qz -1 points0 points ago

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Sure. It is Continuum Datacenters I haven't checked out their site and pricing in a while cause we've been with them for a while but I do know that they are super flexible in their pricing and plans if you talk to them before purchasing.

I have been with Colocrossing and The Planet and Continuum is far superior. I used to be a big fan of Colocrossing because of their high quality network but they turned out to be money hungry douches in the end. Charging $25 for a setup of an IPKVM and $10/hour after that. Go fuck yourself Jon Biloh.

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 0 points1 point ago

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That's what you get for going with a gameserver provider for dedicateds. Velocity/Colocrossing just resell Voxel/Servercentral/etc.

Continuum is pretty kickass, they're on Ubiquity/Nobis Tech's network IIRC but they essentially have a premium network that I don't have any use for - rather have quantity over quality here.

You can get a full cab at CDC for 800 a month with 100Mb Internap right now, that's pretty decent if you're looking for gameservers and such.

[–]_qz -1 points0 points ago

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Yeah I was aware that Velocity and Colocrossing as well as summit-servers are all the same people but their network was superb so we stayed with them for a while until we could find a comparable network. I completely understand quantity over quality for what you are/were using the bandwidth for. I only run a single 1U server, just super powered. I have about 8 servers running on it now with a load average of around 1.0-2.0. I would LOVE to get a full cabinet just to have one but I just have no use for one ATM. I used to run a decent sized game server company and we were very close to renting a whole cabinet at one point before the market went to shit and we eventually closed down. Now I just provide game servers to people I know for ridiculously low rates simply because I have the super powered box with lots of extra space.

Love Continuum though, I would recommend them to anybody looking for high quality bandwidth at low rates.

[–]totallyanonymousacc[S] 0 points1 point ago

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If you have ridiculous amounts of cash to blow in the future, look into www.voxel.net for servers in NY.

[–]nik_doof -1 points0 points ago

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Dreddit (/r/evedreddit) would be happy if you could run a icecast server for Dreddit Radio (http://radio.dredd.it), at the moment its squeezed onto another machine with no ability to do transcoding to other codecs.

[–]mrplinko -1 points0 points ago

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Internet Radio

di.fm or afterhoursdjs.org

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

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Spider the internet, hashing images like http://tineye.com/ or similar ..?

[–]TRUNCATEusers -2 points-1 points ago

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configure the system for public masquerading

[–]laverabe -2 points-1 points ago* 

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Not exactly bandwidth, but rather cpu power: if you're interested in donating to research medical science (protein folding) David Baker, the lead researcher at Rosetta (University of Washington), is requesting assistance from volunteers.

CASP9 is now in full swing and we need your help! We are being overwhelmed with targets and need as much CPU power as possible!

[–]GortGW -3 points-2 points ago

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I'm with the others, what backwards country are you hosting this out of that you can't use your bandwidth for whatever legal purpose you want?

Also, if disk space is an issue see if you can round up a hundred bucks for a new terabyte hard drive.

[–]Zooph -4 points-3 points ago

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ustream.tv?

justin.tv?

Slingbox?