On Fri, 16 May 2025 16:10:51 +0000 RUSTEDUSTED via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:
I am planning to set up a Tor exit node
Tor exit nodes are quickly blacklisted. Even middlemen without exit can be blacklisted too. Where do you plan to run it? You do not want to put it behind your home connection. I do what most people do: I rent a tiny VPS for ~ $1 / month 1 vCPU and 1 - 1.5 GB of RAM is enough to run TOR. My American VPS has a 4 TB monthly throughput limit, so I adjusted RelayBandwidthRate in torrc 4 TB / 31 days / 86400 s = 1493 KB/s I have to take a few other things into account, like the OS updates, OS e-mails alerts... All this is small and I cannot estimate it precisely so I reduced the limit to stay on the safe side. /etc/tor/torrc ... ## Define these to limit how much relayed traffic you will allow. Your ## own traffic is still unthrottled. Note that RelayBandwidthRate must ## be at least 20 KB. ## Note that units for these config options are bytes per second, not bits ## per second, and that prefixes are binary prefixes, i.e. 2^10, 2^20, etc. #RelayBandwidthRate 100 KB # Throttle traffic to 100KB/s (800Kbps) #RelayBandwidthBurst 200 KB # But allow bursts up to 200KB/s (1600Kbps) # 1493KB max RelayBandwidthRate 1400 KB RelayBandwidthBurst 3000 KB ## Use these to restrict the maximum traffic per day, week, or month. ## Note that this threshold applies separately to sent and received bytes, ## not to their sum: setting "4 GB" may allow up to 8 GB total before ## hibernating. ## ## Set a maximum of 4 TB each way per period. AccountingMax 4000 GB ## Each period starts daily at midnight (AccountingMax is per day) #AccountingStart day 00:00 ## Each period starts on the 3rd of the month at 15:00 (AccountingMax ## is per month) AccountingStart month 5 12:00 ...