We need more 10Gbps or higher dedicated servers for hosting our OS and app updates.
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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.
@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?
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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.
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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.
@GrapheneOS Maybe try Scaleway? Datacentres in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. French datacentres are 100% renewable energy powered: https://www.scaleway.com
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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.
@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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 Maybe try Scaleway? Datacentres in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. French datacentres are 100% renewable energy powered: https://www.scaleway.com
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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.
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@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?

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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.
@GrapheneOS I wonder if manitu @team would be interested in making you a special offer for your special needs.
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We 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.
@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.
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@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.
@greg_harvey @GrapheneOS Are you sure to Host on Scaleway?
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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.
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Wie wär's damit, @netcup @netcup_global ? -
We 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.
@GrapheneOS @mullvadnet låter som något ni skulle kunna ställa er bakom?

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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.
@GrapheneOS @upcloud interested?
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@greg_harvey @GrapheneOS Are you sure to Host on Scaleway?
They are based in France.@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.
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@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.
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We 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.
@GrapheneOS it seems like bittorrent would be spiritually coherent choice for distribution
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@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 Ah, OK. I was not aware of that, sorry to hear it.