Ran a Tor middle relay for about ten years.
I'm sure I helped many people troll on forums, order drugs without putting on pants, and collect weird pr0 n.
I also helped at least one guy access CNN tech news despite his country's cheap copy of the Great Firewall.
That's great, I believe in these little causes and their ability to have a major impact on someone. I used to host alternative privacy front-ends for a while for the likes of Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, etc.
Huge traffic from China until my humble website got banned by the great firewall. Yes they even crack down on hobbies.
Well done! Keeping those updated must have been close to a fulltime job!
Sucks re Great Firewall, yeah IKR...
It wasn't too bad, I usually create an update script and leave it to a cron job to run it periodically.
The same goes for the VM itself, and I get notified of any failures or the service going down through monitoring.
This wouldn't fly for some serious commercial service, but it's fine for a hobby volunteer effort and there were never any problems, uptime was great.
Setting them up properly was a bitch sometimes though.
