> I'm planning to go for a full reinstall of my 2 guards in order to upgrade > them to CentOS 8 & Tor 0.4.x > My current relays (Tor 0.3.5.8 & CentOS7) are running at OVH (France) and I > was considering installing the new ones at a more useful location > France has the second highest aggregated consensus weight, so I should > avoid France, THAT is clear > > But then I got puzzled: > Should I maximise the bandwidth criteria by running the relays in countries > having good connectivity and bandwidth (Europe, US...), at the cost of > diversity? > Should I maximise the geographical diversity (Gabon, Reunion...) at the > cost of bandwidth? > > Alternatively, I could just stop asking stupid questions and make my life > easier by reinstalling at OVH... > > The stats are nice indeed, but I miss clear recommendations in order to > make my mind > > So, any useful recommendation,guys?
Thanks for considering diversity before setting up your relays. The main information required to answer that question properly is: what is the available budged Ideally you would use a rare location (ASN and country wise) that provides at least the same amount of capacity that you still can afford. Relay Search is a good tool to help you see where to not run more relays. Since you are planing to setup a guard relay, you should sort these tables by guard probability and avoid the most common entries. Ideally you avoid the top 5 countries/ASNs and make sure that your ASN is not using these ASNs as their only upstream. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#aggregate/as https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#aggregate/cc kind regards, nusenu -- https://twitter.com/nusenu https://mastodon.social/@nusenu
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