Hi Dan, There's of course another option. Change your provider unless it's important to you to use them in particular. The market is full of good deals with very good bandwidth allowances. I really don't understand how some providers can get away with using bandwidth as money grab.
I use my own bare metal but I also got myself a VPS for some tests and once I was done with my tests, it was so cheap that I kept it and turned it into a Tor relay. I'm not suggesting that you use them, I'm just showing you one of the options out there https://www.webtropia.com/en/cloud-vps.html For 4.99 (4.49 if you're outside Europe because they won't charge you tax) you'll get 4 cores 8 GB Ram and 40 TB of monthly bandwidth and they don't count the download. I've set up the relay bandwidth to ``` RelayBandwidthRate 176 MBits ``` and it's been consistently relaying about 36 to 38 TB monthly for the past 10 months and never goes over 40. I hardly even look at it except for updates. There are plenty of providers out there that offer you good deals like this Cheers On 12/22/2023 10:30 AM, Dan wrote: > 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
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