i'm low key a bit excited about imminently having three outbound paths in my personal VPN network. one in ljubljana, one in miami, and one in belgrade. i will make them all equal priority routes so that they will tend to get rotated randomly

and then, once i complete the task of building out the personal relay routing service, my traffic will be mixed with their traffic. it will be a combination VPN and personal inbox relay service. they will also have their web traffic routed the same way as me. i may have to rethink the $2/month fee, if i bundle in that they also get a three node VPN for their connections because, well... probably i will have to upgrade the traffic on my VPSs to accommodate the number of users traffic, video especially is pretty heavy. i managed to burn 1tb one time in a month on my VPS/VPN so i figure i probably have to allow for about 250gb of traffic per user, with 3tb in the base setup, that works out to a capacity of 6 users on par with my usage, so probably i will need to bump that to like 5tb/node and then i can have like 20 clients, and should be able to manage to still make a smal margin at the end of it even at $5/month

the bonus will be that those 20 customers traffic will be mingled with mine which is a pretty solid, low budget traffic mixing situation. maybe later on i expand to 5 or 10 edge routers on the mesh and i have like 100 clients and my cost will be about $100 a month and my income from it will be about $400. not bad way to create both anonymity and help nostr be more decentralised at the same time. pays half my rent, effectively.