A use for your idle VPS.

SirNeo

Have you considered using your idle vps in order to help circumventing internet censorship?

Running Snowflake or OBFS4 is legal!

Nanja

How much bandwidth do either of those use monthly, all my idle cheap vps are limited.

Ed_Chd

Obfs4 is effectively dead due to entropy cap. Snowflake is also near its death due to deliberate high packet drop rate on UDP packets.
If you have enough resources to host either of these, why not go for a correctly-configured EP instead, then distribute shareables of it to people in need?

bamboo4409

EP?

Ed_Chd

@bamboo4409 said:
EP?

Encrypted proxies, an informal term for customizable proxies specifically tailored to bypass censorship with all means possible. The earliest one would be Shadowsocks, while there are also many other choices that are quite good. Most of the advanced ones allow you to tailor routing and etc exactly to your needs, without any need to configure additional components or apply hacks/workarounds.
EPs are extremely popular in countries like Iran and China, and I have years of experience in setting clusters up for use there.

concept

@Nanja said:
How much bandwidth do either of those use monthly, all my idle cheap vps are limited.

It depends on how many actively its being used. I would say around 1TB at most.

For example from one of my obfs4 bridges.
Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 25 days 12:00 hours, with 208 circuits open. I've sent 903.45 GB and received 904.63 GB. I've received 24790 connections on IPv4 and 0 on IPv6. I've made 251941 connections with IPv4 and 0 with IPv6.

concept

@concept said:

@Nanja said:
How much bandwidth do either of those use monthly, all my idle cheap vps are limited.

It depends on how many actively its being used.

For example from one of my obfs4 bridges.
Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 25 days 12:00 hours, with 208 circuits open. I've sent 903.45 GB and received 904.63 GB. I've received 24790 connections on IPv4 and 0 on IPv6. I've made 251941 connections with IPv4 and 0 with IPv6.

SirNeo

@Nanja said:
How much bandwidth do either of those use monthly, all my idle cheap vps are limited.

I don't have exact numbers but somewhere between 500GB to 1TB/month depending how much users are connecting on them.

@Ed_Chd said:
Obfs4 is effectively dead due to entropy cap. Snowflake is also near its death due to deliberate high packet drop rate on UDP packets.
If you have enough resources to host either of these, why not go for a correctly-configured EP instead, then distribute shareables of it to people in need?

Then give me a hint of how i can configure an EP and how to distribute them

Ed_Chd

@SirNeo said:

@Nanja said:
How much bandwidth do either of those use monthly, all my idle cheap vps are limited.

I don't have exact numbers but somewhere between 500GB to 1TB/month depending how much users are connecting on them.

@Ed_Chd said:
Obfs4 is effectively dead due to entropy cap. Snowflake is also near its death due to deliberate high packet drop rate on UDP packets.
If you have enough resources to host either of these, why not go for a correctly-configured EP instead, then distribute shareables of it to people in need?

Then give me a hint of how i can configure an EP and how to distribute them

Sing Box, Xray

As of distributing, I've seen people doing so in Telegram channels. Or else, you can post them on somewhere people living there definitely will come by. If you are in touch of anyone living there, it also works.

SirNeo

BUMP.

Maybe someone don't know what to do with their idlers and want to help

cybertech

i only do one thing with my idlers.