thanks for sharing your experience with your hoster.
tor-markus:
Hey *,
I run C65EF5E06B8338CF976D376048BE2C8FBD499C9C for about a month. On Monday I received the first abuse ticket from my ISP (Contabo GmbH). The ticket contained lots and lots of log information from a fail2ban system so GMail sent it right into the spam folder. 24 hours later I received a monitoring e-mail that my server was down. After a little search through my mails I found out that Contabo shuts down all services within 24h if there is no reply. That kinda sucked because I run some private services on this machine (different ip).
strongly recommended:
do NOT mix tor exit relay services with other services you depend on on the same operating system. for multiple reasons: - don't suffer as much when the server gets shutdown or seized - easier to argue that the server was a tor exit and only a tor exit - smaller attack surface