Re: [tor-relays] About relay size

On 30 Sep 2017, at 09:55, Andy Isaacson adi@hexapodia.org wrote:

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Is it better if I run other small ones (100Mbps too) or only 1 big exit relay (1 Gbps) ? What's best for the network stability/security?

My overall analysis is that one 1Gbps relay is a better contribution to the network than two 100 Mbps relays

I agree. Larger, faster relays help clients achieve low-latency, high bandwidth connections.

But depending on your processor speed, you might find that each tor instance can only use about ~300Mbps before it maxes out the CPU. (And it can take a few weeks for a new tor relay to get to the maximum.)

So you may need 3-4 tor instances on your 1Gbps connection. And you can only have 2 tor instances per public IPv4 address.