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Sooo I have a dilemma.

I have to find hosting for a project that I am working on soon. I do not think I could afford to pay for the resources that would be required in order to run the server.

I have a spare raspberry pi, solar powered battery pack, and an external SSD. I could technically rig up a water proof camouflaged incognito server with this gear.

Hide it somewhere in a shopping plaza that has multiple public wifi hotspots with decent connection speeds. Utilize a vpn service to have a dedicated IP address.

Then configure the DNS for the website and repository to tunnel through to the public internet. So that way the server is accessible, can run 24/7/365, and I can SSH in to manage it.

Strictly from a moral and ethical standpoint.

Is this plan a good, bad, or neutral thing for me to do?

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Dimi 9mo ago

lol do you really need guerrilla networking/hosting? $5 vps goes far, what resources do you think you need?

TheLegendaryMan 9mo ago

100+ GB SSD

4 Core Processor

8GB RAM

Un-Metered Bandwidth

Dimi 9mo ago

Mmm yea most places will charge you $50/m for that. nostr:npub1lnvps32qq2nvg75cqwflq4y6cmnzn55d26ypzjakpkp3khqcx2ns7t7vjj is much cheaper

TheLegendaryMan 9mo ago

This FOSS project I have been working on for months is something I am very passionate about and will help a lot of people. However, I have no income or job right now. Tapping into just 5-15 dollars extra a month would be putting me in a financial imposition that I might be able to barely pull off. That is how tight money is for me until circumstances in my life changes. I am a full-time caregiver right now for a family member and that is not changing anytime soon.

So it is either guerrilla hosting, finding a super cheap hosting provider with the specs I need, or saying fuck it and shelf the project until my financial situation changes.

These are my only options I have right now unless someone has a better idea.

Dimi 9mo ago

GitHub link?

TheLegendaryMan 9mo ago

No github.

Never github.

Morally opposed to using anything owned and operated by microsoft.

Right now this is a local git server that is not publicly accessible, or available to view until the project is completed. Which I am hoping is within the next month, or so.

mandalorianhodl 9mo ago

guerilla hosting lol..

find out the exact price first so you know that you can or cannot afford it

freemymind 🇨🇭 9mo ago

Since you ask from a ethical standpoint, I would say this is fine. I assume when you have some reasonable small bandwith, this will hurt noone. When you want to run a fully fledged global marketplace of free video streaming, maby this is not the best way to do it. But when it is an information webpage, that serves a couple of thousand people a month, probably they will not recognize it in the supermarket.

Technical question: You have a supermarket close, where you have open networks, with no key nor connectinglimit?

Robertrobert 9mo ago

“Thou shalt not steal”

TheLegendaryMan 9mo ago

See that is the dilemma.

If it is a public wifi. That is open for everyone to use as much as they want whenever they want. While i am generating my own solar electricity.

Is this truly stealing, or simply utilizing an available resource in a way most people would not think of?