I'm planning to go for a full reinstall of my 2 guards in order to upgrade them to CentOS 8 & Tor 0.4.x My current relays (Tor 0.3.5.8 & CentOS7) are running at OVH (France) and I was considering installing the new ones at a more useful location France has the second highest aggregated consensus weight, so I should avoid France, THAT is clear
But then I got puzzled: Should I maximise the bandwidth criteria by running the relays in countries having good connectivity and bandwidth (Europe, US...), at the cost of diversity? Should I maximise the geographical diversity (Gabon, Reunion...) at the cost of bandwidth?
Alternatively, I could just stop asking stupid questions and make my life easier by reinstalling at OVH...
The stats are nice indeed, but I miss clear recommendations in order to make my mind
So, any useful recommendation,guys?
Thanks for considering diversity before setting up your relays.
The main information required to answer that question properly is: what is the available budged
Ideally you would use a rare location (ASN and country wise) that provides at least the same amount of capacity that you still can afford.
Relay Search is a good tool to help you see where to not run more relays. Since you are planing to setup a guard relay, you should sort these tables by guard probability and avoid the most common entries.
Ideally you avoid the top 5 countries/ASNs and make sure that your ASN is not using these ASNs as their only upstream.
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#aggregate/as https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#aggregate/cc
kind regards, nusenu