Hello! I have recently discovered this initiative, and I am very keen on trying to support it. I have at my disposal a Lenovo x3650 server with a stable internet connection and an excess of RAM (yeah, I know, quite impressive given the current situation). I am also located in an area where fronted servers are not available, and I wondered what type of system requirements you require your collaborators to provide in case they want to help you further expand coverage. I am posting this on the forum so that other avid collaborators can also see what the requirements are.
Thanking you in advance, I hope the heat wave does not affect you that much.
We currently do not accept any single-host service contributions, mainly because in our experience it’s very complicated to juggle with all the different operators of various nodes that would result from such a setup. We prefer each anycast network, including the nodes, to be fully in the hands of a responsible operator.
As an alternative, we appreciate regular financial contributions in order to help cover the cost around the anycast networks and frontend servers (including DDoS defense etc.). “Adoption” typically means covering a node or two in this way, and we recognize adoption supporters on our web site. The extra cash influx also helps us free our timing resources to work on actual DNS security improvements (such as our recently released RFC 10026), which otherwise would be in competition with funding acquisition efforts for our operations.