Some may remember #BoyBSD which got heavily abused during the beta test. Now, I'm trying it again with longterm VMs. Currently, I grant only VMs to very active user accounts that are providing valuable content to the community (in the hope they're not abusing the service, especially not in a bad way). However, this feels unfair, especially I want to target people that cannot afford VMs to learn and practice on #FreeBSD, #NetBSD and #OpenBSD - especially when it requires a static IP for name server etc.
Currently, I have no clue except of processing financial data like SEPA, PayPal etc. to have at least a minimum of safety. I thought about GPG, by signings - but I guess GPG is not really used by newer dev- & sysops.
I'm hosting this services for free, with my personal efforts and hardware. I do it to bring some help and valuable things back to the community and especially to newcomers in this field but I don't want to deal everytime with ddos, email spamming, torrent or tor exit nodes. While this is still annoying, there're still some other things you really don't want to deal with. So, I need a useful safety net for me.