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Help the Tor network by putting your idle Oracle cloud
As we all know, many people here have taken advantage of the free two VM offer from Oracle cloud. The thing is that many people have probably have left them idle soon after creating the VM.
One way to put the Idle VMs to use is to set up a Tor relay, that would help in the network diversity of the network (https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS31898).
This website shows an easy way to set up a Tor relay (https://tor-relay.co/). At the moment I have one VM set up as a relay (25Mbit, as there is a 10TB/month outgoing on the free plan) and the other as a Tor bridge.
I hope this thread has been helpful.
Comments
Before doing so, I would check that it's not against Oracle's Terms of Service to run this on their VMs. Because knowing their history, they'll sue you out of existence if you violate their agreements.