Hi George, Thanks for all the input.
> Or, just ask the provider for more bandwidth per month, generally now in 2023 > it's pretty damn cheap. I had not considered this, but when contacted my VPS provider offered another 5TB for an additional $3/month. Considering the box only costs $4/month, I think this is the best option. I'll probably remove all limits for January and just see how much traffic gets transferred. --- Thanks, Dan > On Thursday, December 21st, 2023 at 8:04 AM, George Hartley via tor-relays <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > >1 - Is it better for the network if the relay is active 24/7, even if > >sometimes it's much slower? > > Generally according to the relay requirements a relay is considered useful if > it can at least route 2MB/s or 16 MBit/s steadily. > > However, I think you should get away with 1MB/s or 8 MBit/s. > > > 2 - Will it negatively affect my relay's reputation if sometimes it's very > >slow? > > The Tor authorities might reduce your middle probability, but you will not be > punished in any way, and as soon as automatic bandwidth measurements confirm > that you have more capacity available, > > the authorities should start directing more traffic to your relay. > > Some possible other ideas: > > Rate-limit traffic to your relay using RelayBandwidthRate and > RelayBandwidthBurst, but with only 5TB of monthly traffic you will end up > rate-limiting it to somewhere in the 1,8 to 2MB/s range to not hit your > traffic cap. > > Or, just ask the provider for more bandwidth per month, generally now in 2023 > it's pretty damn cheap. > > All the best, > George > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've been running a middle relay on a VPS for about 2 months now. The > > provider limits the monthly data transferred to 5TB but does not charge for > > over-usage. Instead, the bandwidth is throttled to 1Mb/s after the limit is > > reached until the 1st of the next month. > > > > I currently have AccountingMax set to 2.5 TB (since it's the max in each > > direction) and AccountingStart set to "month 1 00:00". Generally that 5TB > > limit is hit between the 15th and 17th of the month, causing the relay to > > go dormant until the 1st. > > > > What I'm wondering is: > > > > 1 - Is it better for the network if the relay is active 24/7, even if > > sometimes it's much slower? > > 2 - Will it negatively affect my relay's reputation if sometimes it's very > > slow? > > > > Thank you > > > > -- > > Dan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-relays mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
