I understand. Perhaps it might be possible to make a package that people could point at any VPS which runs the setting-up and hardening. You could have prompts for the unique bits such as name and exit or relay. Arm is part of the way there I feel.
Your ideal is good. You might have sparked some other thoughts towards its fruition. Robert > I went with DigitalOcean because their API is what allows the > provisioning process to be automated which means less time spent by > humans setting things up. The only way this was going to work for me is > if the basic ordering process was 100% automated with me only tending to > the one-offs or odd failures. DigitalOcean charges $5 per month for > their base VPS (https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/) which is where > the $60 a year comes from. > Using a VPS provider that requires a manual order each time as well as > manual setup of the Tor client (even if using something like salt or > ansible you still need to run a command) just didn't make sense for a > side project. > > I appreciate all of the feedback but it seems as if this project doesn't > make sense yet so I'll probably shut it down and put it on the self -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
