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<div>Hi Gary,<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">thanks for the warm welcome.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am currently not performing any load-balancing between my different Tor relays or my physical/virtual servers. Having thought about it a bit, I can only see this make sense if you intend to offer .onion services. I don't. Maybe I missed something?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have some bare-metal servers that run multiple instances of Tor to provide multiple relays each and I have some virtual instances (KVM, VMWare) that run a single instance of Tor, providing one relay each. These are hosted at different providers all over the world (see simplified attached graphic).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As each relay is measured by the Tor network individually, is reachable independently and is not "critical" to the rest of the network, I don't see how load-balancing them could give me or the users of Tor a sizable benefit - as long as I am not running any hidden services. If one relay goes down, there is already an automatic switch-over to a different relay in the network. If one relay is overloaded, this is also detected and (presumably) it will be used less in the future.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What part do you intent to load-balance and to what outcome?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best Regards,<br></div><div dir="auto">Kristian<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dec 12, 2021, 15:42 by tor-relays@lists.torproject.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div class="" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div>Welcome to tor-relays, Kristian. It's nice to meet a fellow Tor Farmer. It sounds like you are fairly seasoned with quite an extensive deployment of Tor Relays.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Are you performing any loadbalancing with Tor Nodes or are they Individually, Distributed Tor Relays?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have a Single Tor Relay comprised of a number of Tor Nodes. I'm always interested in knowledge sharing related to Tor Loadbalancing.<br></div><div><br></div><div>What are your thoughts on the Pros & Cons of dedicating resources to a Single, Loadbalanced Tor Relay vs Many, Unloadbalanced Tor Relays by a Tor Operator? Perhaps, a Hybrid approach?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to hear more of your Tor farming practices.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Respectfully,<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Gary<br></div><div class=""><div>—<br></div><div>This Message Originated by the Sun.<br></div><div>iBigBlue 63W Solar Array (~12 Hour Charge)<br></div><div>+ 2 x Charmast 26800mAh Power Banks<br></div><div>= iPhone XS Max 512GB (~2 Weeks Charged)<br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="ydpf5d8396ayahoo_quoted_0260885176" class=""><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div>On Sunday, December 12, 2021, 1:31:09 AM PST, abuse--- via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div id="ydpf5d8396ayiv4733828933"><div><div>Hello Tor relay operators,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I joined this mail list recently and wanted to take the opportunity to shortly introduce myself.<br></div><div>My name is Kristian, I am based in Europe, and I operate all nodes behind the domain lokodlare.com. “Lökodlare” is Swedish for “onion farmers”, which is pretty much what I do.<br></div><div><br></div><div>My goal is to contribute to the Tor network by providing a couple of high-bandwidth nodes all over the globe, preferably at less common providers and/or in niche countries. I will focus on Middle and Guard relays, though I will throw some exits into the mix every now and then with a very reduced exit policy.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I currently operate 90+ relays and bridges with a theoretical bandwidth capacity of roughly 25 Gbit/s. As a snapshot, those nodes handled around 280 TB of Tor-related traffic in the past 24 hours.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am looking forward to talk/discuss with all of you in the future.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, have a great Sunday,<br></div><div>Kristian<br></div></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>tor-relays mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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