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What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by xana@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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!

Edit: If you have any not so heavy torrent (<250GiB) that could be helpful please suggest as well.

Edit: Thank you for all the options you've suggested:

archiveteam warrior
tor relay/snowflae
syncthing relay
i2p
radicle
peertube
seeding torrents

I will try to explore them. Thank you very much!

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[–] xana@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I am curious how much bandwidth it comsumes a month ? And do you have any legal implication for doing that ?

[–] pr3d@eviltoast.org 5 points 20 hours ago

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: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-censorship

more @ https://snowflake.torproject.org/

[–] ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 7 points 23 hours ago

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.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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. Hosting an I2P outproxy would be similar to hosting a Tor exit node, so be aware of that.