Greetings relay operators.
A question that came up offline for relay operators can be summed up in one sentence, paraphrased from flexlibris:
as a relay operator, what "things" do you wish you knew before you started running a relay?
I'm really curious, in particular, to hear from those relay operators who are less connected to others, and are maybe more isolated physically from the community.
In the long-ago past, many of us ran exit nodes without giving it much thought or preparation leading to ISP issues, but that seems less common today.
For others, there might be a learning curve in keeping a network service up with decent uptime, while updating the relevant ports and operating system.
There's no irrelevant answers to this, including more boring issues such as paying for the relay, choosing a provider or experiences as a (conscious) exit node operator.
Bonus point for showing relation between your total costs per 1Mbps.
Not only should this discussion be useful on list, but it might provide more content for the relay operator guide.
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