> Hosing publicly usable services which provides benefits to anonymity are a great way to help the community. Unfortunately, these become difficult to manage & maintain. Many services including our Tor node and Matrix server were prone to being abused. To effectively combat abuse, this would require us to use privacy-invasive measures. Our hosting provider - 1984, the host we used for everything, decided to delete the entire VPS without notice. We received no emails or alerts on such actions. There could be a number of reasons for this - primarily being abuse. Our Tor exit node hosted on Njalla was shutdown after malicious user(s) conducted several brute-force attacks. Njalla has become ridiculously expensive to operate with, providing no real upgrades, and you are limited to a small amount of storage. While hosting services is great, it's even more difficult to do such with little to no donations, and a wide variety of malicious actors conducting abuse on such services. Services may be available in the future, but for now we best stick with this website, and this website only.
**Thank you very much for reading this.** Contributions are very welcome, to contribute, just fork the repository, do the changes and open a pull request.
If you do not know where to start, take a look at the [issues](https://git.anonymousland.org/anonymousland/anonymousland/issues) for this repository, you can also take a look at our *site-wide* [issues list](https://git.anonymousland.org/anonymousland/main).
Running these services and properly maintaining them takes time and money. *We would be extremely grateful to get donations*, we only ask for 5$, that's all.
To donate, you can visit our [donation page](https://anonymousland.org/donate), contribute directly to our [Monero](https://www.getmonero.org/) wallet or by scanning the folowing QR Code:
To host this site, we use nginx, you can check our config at our [infrastructure repository](https://git.anonymousland.org/anonymousland/infrastructure). But this should do:
Click [here](https://matrix.to/#/#lounge:anonymousland.org) to join our main Matrix *chatroom* and [here](https://matrix.to/#/#anonymousland:anonymousland.org) to join our Matrix *space.*