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Sure, but VPNs cost serious money to run. I'd hate Mozilla to run itself into the ground for something like that.
by oliwarner 7y ago
Sure, but VPNs cost serious money to run. I'd hate Mozilla to run itself into the ground for something like that.
- theturtletalks 7y agoYes I'm not sure how viable it would be, but I know Cloudflare is working on a free VPN: https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/ But privacy is the main concern and I would only use it if their were assurances that the VPN would not log nor sell user data. Mozilla does get a lot of money to keep Google as the default search engine on Firefox so using a built-in VPN to draw more users may get Google to pay them more.
- o-__-o 7y ago> but VPNs cost serious money to run methinks you're talking out of your butthole right now. I run a VPN service. I can get away with about 100 users per dedicated host. That gives me an average CPU of $0.80. If I went with tier-1 datacenters, my cost would triple. Public cloud DCs bring my costs up ~25%. These numbers shrink with scale (e.g. buying dedicated bandwidth, bringing your own bandwidth, colo and increase server density, etc). Also mozilla has $69m in cash as of 2016, without counting assets and investments. They are okay to host few thousand more servers.. https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Audited_Financial_Statement.pdf https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Au...
- oliwarner 7y agoIt's not 100 users though, it's 250 million users and the infrastructure to balance them. Whether or not you think my anus is more capable than you estimating the cost, for an organisation that relies on soft revenue, this is serious money.