Welcome to the Invisible Internet! — Setting up I2P on a VPS
November 17, 2024
A major hurdle for the wider adoption of the I2P protocol is the same as with many other purely P2P protocols: you need to reach a certain peer connectivity level before anything becomes usable. For example, this Mental Outlaw video about I2P shows that it can take many hours of waiting before most eepsites become accessible. This is drastically different from e.g. Tor, which is basically plug-and-play. Setting up I2P on a remote VPS and port forwarding that connection with SSH provides a robust solution to this problem, as the client being online 24/7 guarantees excellent connectivity.