It’s an interesting thought and I’ve thought before it would be nice if I could pay for an exit node but not be legally responsible or have to maintain it. I’d pay $10 for that. I think crypto miner is where you lost me. Big crypto fan, but mining on a VPS is a bad idea. You’ll consume a ton of resources and power and generate next to nothing in terms of coins.
I'm pretty ignorant on crypto, I just knew that it was important to have many mining to increase transaction times, decrease transactions costs, decentralize proof of work, etc. And practically you're right, might be a good way to absolutely ruin the performance of the server.
Enabling searxng on a NixOS instance is trivial and works well. What are you missing here ?
For it to contribute to the public, I would also want some sort of way to help the admin notify the oublic about it. I was even thinking that this would come with its own cli tool to check that the instance was visible on the open internet, and the present in public instance lists like searx.space. In this case, building and configuration is alrwady handled by NixOS, which is nice. I havent looked into others.
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