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GrapheneOSWe need more 10Gbps or higher dedicated servers for hosting our OS and app updates. We have North America covered well enough via sponsored servers from ReliableSite in both Miami and Los Angeles and a sponsored server from Xenyth in Toronto but no longer have any left in Europe.
We can afford to pay for a couple 10Gbps servers in Europe if needed but it would be better if we could get them sponsored. For Europe, we use an average of 1Gbps to 2Gbps over the course of a month but it's very bursty so we need 10Gbps to 20Gbps total capacity for it in Europe.
We can afford to pay for it but hosting companies providing sponsorships saves significant money we can use to pay more developers to improve privacy, security, usability and compatibility for GrapheneOS. We document server sponsors on our servers page: https://grapheneos.org/articles/grapheneos-servers#releases.grapheneos.org.
It doesn't necessarily need to be fully sponsored. If we could pay for servers at cost and especially cheaper access to bandwidth based on actual transit/peering costs that would help a lot. 10Gbps unmetered is usually quite expensive and also inefficient since our use is bursty.
We received a bunch of potential sponsorship offers for servers which we're following up. We're going to focus on following up the offers from server providers first since they'll be able to get us what we need more quickly. We'll follow up the likely more complex ones after.
Stefan ThöniHey @init7, how about sponsoring a server for @GrapheneOS?
I Quit Smoking@GrapheneOS i believe debian does update polling time a little randomized to reduce burst usage. could grapheneos do similar to have a more distributed network usage?
@iquitsmoking Update checks use the standard JobScheduler which spreads out the checks. Update checks are every 6 hours with the full default flex up to 12h.
Debian barely has software versions are frozen for years and doesn't have fully automated updates. They're also fine with using a huge number of sketchy third party mirrors and don't care about having privacy for which software people are using including mostly not using HTTPS due to package signing. It's not really a similar situation.
Greg Harvey 🌍@GrapheneOS Maybe try Scaleway? Datacentres in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. French datacentres are 100% renewable energy powered: https://www.scaleway.com
@greg_harvey Edited:
It seems they're based in France which we're currently trying to avoid due to major hostility from French national law enforcement and their government towards end-to-end encryption and secure devices. French law enforcement specifically targeted GrapheneOS with fearmongering and spread it in a bunch of the French media. They're trying to make it seem as if GrapheneOS is for criminals and are trying to justify taking action against us so we don't want to bne involved there.
@GrapheneOS Have you asked them if they'll be the sponsor? They might give you the servers if you ask? 😃
Rodirik@rodirik @greg_harvey If the company is based in France then we're going to be avoiding it due to avoiding servers or server providers based in France right now.
@rodirik @greg_harvey Edited the response above based on that, didn't realize it at the time.
@GrapheneOS @rodirik Fair enough. People have already mentioned Hetzner, Exoscale in Switzerland seem pretty good, and there's IONOS (German) too. Hope that helps.
@greg_harvey @GrapheneOS @rodirik I love Hetzner, they are really reliable and prices are okay as well
@chefx @greg_harvey @rodirik Their dedicated servers are very competitively priced but their 10G port upgrade isn't exactly cheap. See https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/network/10g-uplink/. It's 1 EUR per TB above the included 20TB. Their regular 1Gbps port included with each server is unmetered but they might get upset if it was actually used as advertised. That's somewhat implied by the fact that 10G is metered despite even a server like https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax41-nvme/configurator/#/ having 1G unmetered.
@GrapheneOS Ah, OK. I was not aware of that, sorry to hear it.
Florian@GrapheneOS I wonder if manitu @team would be interested in making you a special offer for your special needs.
CandlesARG@GrapheneOS not Europe specifically but would you guys consider hosting in Australia??? If safe to do so I mean.
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R.C.@GrapheneOS @upcloud interested?
Jack 🇪🇺@GrapheneOS
@iowaandy IONOS maybe?
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Simon Zerafa (Status: 
😊)I was also going to suggest @hetzner
They are fairly big and Germany is becoming the European center for privacy (or the least worst) after the nonsense Switzerland and France 🤨
@simonzerafa @occirol @hetzner Hetzner's pricing for 10GB is $1/TB with barely any bandwidth included which isn't comparable to their usual extremely low pricing. It's competitive but it starts being nearly as much as paying for 10Gbps unmetered which we can get for around $500 from other providers. We currently use around 300TB in a typical month for Europe so with 1 server that would be $300 which is reasonable but not great. We can afford it if we have to do it.
https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/network/10g-uplink/
I wonder if @beasts in the UK might be able to help? They are a fairly cool bunch so they might be able to help 😇
Hetzner@GrapheneOS Unfortunately, I am not really able to evaluate this, but I think it would be a first step if you could send us a few details via email to [email protected]. Then our team can take a look at it and perhaps find a solution ☺️ -Lea
@simonzerafa @GrapheneOS I do not know for France, but Switzerland (for now) isn't such a nonsense in regard of privacy laws.
zhenech@GrapheneOS do you need actual servers (with compute) or just a place to distribute traffic (so a CDN)? If the latter, @fastlydevs is usually happy to sponsor FOSS projects and has good connectivity across the globe.
@zhenech @fastlydevs We need actual servers since we host things ourselves where we can control how it's done and properly monitor it. We don't want to have any single points of failure. We host more than updates on these servers but updates are what uses the vast majority of the bandwidth and storage. Network time, connectivity checks, etc. don't consume much. Self-hosting geocoding instead of only a proxy will need a massive amount of memory and storage but it won't fit on the same servers.
@zhenech @fastlydevs We host 2 of our own anycast DNS networks and have servers around the world for our website/network services. We already essentially host a CDN ourselves. OS updates require a ton of bandwidth and a fair bit of storage so that's harder for us to afford with similarly low prices. We also host our own mail server, discussion forum, Matrix chat, Mastodon (this server), etc. We don't plan to move away from self-hosting but rather want to keep heading down the self-hosting path.
@zhenech @fastlydevs We have our own AS and IP space which we use to host 2 separate anycast DNS networks and are phasing in for other uses too including moving to it for email in the near future. Moving to a CDN is just not the direction we're going. Our approach is having a multi-provider setup with no single point of failure for DNS and the OS services where we aren't heavily reliant on any specific provider. Providers can go out of business, go down, change their mind about sponsorship, etc.
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@GrapheneOS @team is this something for you?
moonleay@GrapheneOS Couldn't some kind of P2P distribution help? The update downloader could be basically a non-seeding Bittorrent client and your servers be seeding clients. At worst case nothing changes for your but this way it is very easy for volunteers to seed it on their own meaning anyone can set up an update mirror without any coordination required.
Johns@GrapheneOS I don't know if they will they will up to it but I have only good things to say about clouding.io
They're located in Barcelona and strive to power their servers with green energy.
I do not and neither have I ever worked for them but I have contracted them and never had a bad experience.
Simon@GrapheneOS @mullvadnet låter som något ni skulle kunna ställa er bakom? 💪
Nebula1000@GrapheneOS it seems like bittorrent would be spiritually coherent choice for distribution
Aral Balkan@GrapheneOS CC @lenzgr Would you folks be able to help perhaps?
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Andreas Albrecht@GrapheneOS
Unfortunately, they're not in the Fediverse yet, but #Artfiles in Hamburg, Germany (https://www.artfiles.de/), might be of interest.
Unfortunately, they're not in the Fediverse yet, but #Artfiles in Hamburg, Germany (https://www.artfiles.de/), might be of interest.
Henry|Stored@GrapheneOS Hey, we from the @entropia Hackerspace in Karlsruhe, Germany have some Bandwith left (10Gbit uplink in our own colocation in the basement), How can we help? :)
@GrapheneOS Did you ask NetCologne for sponsoring a mirror? They have quite a big mirror used by many free software projects, maybe they can also help you.
Liam@GrapheneOS Hey @hetzner, can you help here? ;)
Klaus Frank@GrapheneOS
How about torrents+RSS? Should hell reduce Costa in at least parts oft the world. No?
How about torrents+RSS? Should hell reduce Costa in at least parts oft the world. No?
@GrapheneOS Maybe https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/ is an option? I don't know how they decide what to mirror.
AllispallisYou should check in: https://bahnhof.cloud/
They sponsor Molly.im, among others.
Eller vad säger ni @Bahnhof?
You can apply for sponsorship here: https://bahnhof.se/om-bahnhof/sponsring/
The page is in Swedish, but you can easily fill it out in English. If you have any questions, I'm happy to help!
@Babymosmaker We've been in contact for a while. They'll hopefully provide us with an update server and perhaps more than that but it's going slowlyg and we need to have at least one EU update server again soon. We want to have at least 2 sponsored update servers in Europe so if we can find a second option soon then we should meet that goal. In the longer term we're going to need more servers so ideally we can find more than 2 sponsors for Europe to delay needing to pay for this for more.
Mullvad VPN
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• ŁączeI use Mullvad in GrapheneOS BTW 😆
Koran@mullvadnet @GrapheneOS this would be an amazing opportunity for you both!!
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