Announcement: Qubes Tor onion services will no longer be maintained

[Andrew David Wong]

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Dear Qubes Community,

We regret to announce that the Qubes Tor onion services will no longer
be maintained due to lack of resources. This includes all Qubes onion
services, including the Qubes website onion mirror and the onion package
repos.

We would like to thank the Whonix Project for generously maintaining
these services for over a year. [1] Maintaining the Tor onion services
requires labor, servers, and bandwidth. Unfortunately, none of these
resources are available to the Qubes OS or Whonix projects in sufficient
quantities to allow us to continue offering these services.

We recommend that users who currently rely on any Qubes onion addresses
transition to the corresponding clearnet addresses immediately.


[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/23/qubes-whonix-next-gen-tor-onion-services/

This announcement is also available on the Qubes website:
https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2019/03/24/tor-onion-services-no-longer-maintained/

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org

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[Vasilis]

Hi,

Andrew David Wong:

> We regret to announce that the Qubes Tor onion services will no longer
> be maintained due to lack of resources. This includes all Qubes onion
> services, including the Qubes website onion mirror and the onion package
> repos.

What are the hardware requirements and other resources required to run this
infrastructure?

Do you accept volunteer resources?


Cheers,
~Vasilis
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[Simon Newton]

I can also offer some resources, just throw out the requirements. 

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[Andrew David Wong]

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On 24/03/2019 7.30 PM, Andrew David Wong wrote:
> Dear Qubes Community,
>
> We regret to announce that the Qubes Tor onion services will no longer
> be maintained due to lack of resources. This includes all Qubes onion
> services, including the Qubes website onion mirror and the onion package
> repos.
>
> We would like to thank the Whonix Project for generously maintaining
> these services for over a year. [1] Maintaining the Tor onion services
> requires labor, servers, and bandwidth. Unfortunately, none of these
> resources are available to the Qubes OS or Whonix projects in sufficient
> quantities to allow us to continue offering these services.
>
> We recommend that users who currently rely on any Qubes onion addresses
> transition to the corresponding clearnet addresses immediately.
>
>
> [1] https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/23/qubes-whonix-next-gen-tor-onion-services/
>
> This announcement is also available on the Qubes website:
> https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2019/03/24/tor-onion-services-no-longer-maintained/
>

Dear Qubes Community,

Thank you all for your support. Unman has generously agreed to bring the
Qubes Tor onion services back and maintain them. He has considerable
experience in hosting and infrastructure management, including running
onion services. He is working on it now. We'll have another update for
you soon.

Thank you, unman!

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org

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