> All customers can use two peer relays, for free, forever. As your needs scale, so will the number of available peer relays. To add even more peer relays to your tailnet, come have a chat with us.
I have to pay to be able to donate my own infra to make tailscale's service better?
Tailscale employee here.
I kinda doubt we'll end up charging for it (as it costs us ~nothing except support costs, which are real), but it's easier to make it free later when it's GA rather than rug pull on people and start charging for it in the future if we start it out free+unlimited.
Your peer relays don't make Tailscale's infrastructure better.
They instead make your own infrastructure better.
Running a peer relay donates nothing to anyone.
It makes their service better. It fixes slow transfer speeds between my nodes because their derp servers are rate limited.
> to make tailscale's server better?
While I don't think that's accurate, I, too, am surprised that this feature isn't¹ completely free. After all, it will make it easier (or possible at all) for many people to use Tailscale.
¹) s/isn't/might not end up being. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751253