Kuno XMR Fundraising Platform is Down - We need a fundraiser to get this on a proper hosting provider ASAP (monero.town)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by tusker@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town

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This should really be a high priority service with dedicated admins.

If hosting fund raisers we need near 100% uptime.

Also using cloudflare is a bad idea as it centralizes web traffic.

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[-] Saki@monero.town 1 points 10 months ago

Maybe ideally this should be decentralized, e.g. with 2 or 3 mirror sites. One could post/edit things using whichever instance, and it’ll be visible on every mirror, etc. Like, fail-safe redundancy?

[-] UncleIroh@merovingian.club 2 points 10 months ago

@Saki @tusker

Also, look into evaluating https://basedflare.com/# as an alternative to cloudflare.

[-] Saki@monero.town 1 points 10 months ago

A privacy-centric hosting company having in-house DDOS-protection would be ideal? This basedflare thing may be better than CF, though it feels exactly like CF for me an end user. Their error message is unhelpful too:

Verifying your connection to basedflare.com This process is automatic, please wait a moment... Error: Browser does not support WebAssembly.

A more-friendly error message would be: Use the “Standard” Security Level in Tor Browser; “Safer” “Safest” wouldn’t work for this. (Brave Search actually says something like that, nice to Tor users, though I seldom use Brave Search…)

[-] UncleIroh@merovingian.club 1 points 10 months ago

@Saki

I literally came across basedFlare yesterday so no direct experience with it, though that error looks like a typical cloudflare error.

as for wasm compatability, the tor security-slider takes care of that as you suggest.

[-] Saki@monero.town 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Come to think of it, any CDN may have the same problem (MitM-ness etc). Not sure. Considering alternative options is good in general, though. What I hate about CF is indiscriminate Tor blocking. Tor is also used as a humanitarian tool, helping various vulnerable users (like those who live in an oppressive country with heavy Internet censorship). Blocking it is like collaborating with oppressive regimes.