I commented this in another thread, but thought that it could do with its own post.
It’s a solid list to go off of if you want to pick a few to host. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit
Overview
Have some space computing power and want to donate it to a good cause? How about 10+ good causes at once?
♻️ put an under-utilized system to good use
🚲 use as much or as little CPU/RAM/DISK as you want
✨ 100% more soul warming than mining
📈 geek out over your CPU/disk/bandwidth stats on the leaderboardsThis is a collection of containers that all contribute to public-good projects:
- networks: Tor, i2p
- computing: boinc, foldingathome
- archiving: archivewarrior, zimfarm, kiwix, archivebox, pywb
- storage: ipfs, storj, sia, transmission
This v1 list was started by the ArchiveBox project, but it’s open to contributions.
What’s the general thoughts on running a TOR node?
I think an exit node would probably get my (domestic) ISP asking some questions and / or my static IP getting blocklisted quickly
Going to Jail in Germany speedrun any%
Be careful with compute intensive tasks. Some providers don’t like when you actually utilize your rented hosts.
Not a problem when self-hosting on own hardware. Especially in winter. Overly complicated spaceheater goes brrrr
Yep, BOINC has regularly warmed my home office over many a winter… until I shutdown that machine.
Maybe I should try again…
What would they do about it?
There are often some “fair use” paragraphs in their respective ToS that they could enforce and either terminate your account or request you to uprade to a higher tier product. Usually (not always) VPSs are overprovisioned, so when people start to fully utilize their rented machines theit whole business model goes belly-up.
Find some loophole in their T&C to terminate your account I guess. Similar to how mobile providers don’t like people actually using a lot of bandwidth on their „unlimited“ plans.
Never heard of this so far but maybe. Would be interesting to try
add https://catagolue.hatsya.com/apgsearch pls <3
Made me learn about Archiveteam, thanks :D
Love the art.
I like this, thank you; saving to process further in the coming days…
