<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><span class=""><br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><br class="">I have been running a tor middle relay[1] for the past few months.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></span><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;">One thing that I noticed in the last two months is that my relay is eating<br class="">up the 1tb bandwidth in the first three weeks. So I am thinking of moving<br class="">to a better plan or tweaking the current config to serve the bandwidth so<br class="">that the relay is up for the entire month.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></span>I assume that you want a recommendation. A better plan probably means spending more money. Would be better for the network. If you can spare the money, go for it.<br class=""><br class="">If you dont want to spend more money than it would be a good idea to lower the Rate value until you end up within your traffic limit for the month. The benefit would be a permanent available relay.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Hmm, I think I will try changing the rate and see what happens. Last year, I used a daily limit instead of monthly one. It drastically reduced the relays reported bandwidth ( 1Mbps to 60 kbps ). <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>If you are on the 1TB plan at DigitalOcean, you will want to set something like the following:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(54, 54, 54);" class="">RelayBandwidthRate 600 KB # Throttle traffic to 600KB/s</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(54, 54, 54);" class="">RelayBandwidthBurst 1.2 MB # But allow bursts up to 1.2 MB/s</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">rather than set a daily or monthly limit. The reason being that your server will stay up all the time instead of suddenly hibernating (essentially going offline) when it hits the cap.</div></div></body></html>