Hi,

I'm convinced that tor allows the needed strong anonymity on internet, and I want to contribute. I set up, as a newbie, a middle relay, in february 2026.

I rode that a new relay needs to wait something like 80 days before running 100%, the time for the network to check it's liable.

It is now running for months, and it is still not running 100%.

I have rate-limited the traffic to 500KB/s as for the moment I'm using a low cost VPS. But it appears that it doesn't even reach 70KB/s (it is the best pike in the last days), and even more regrettable, it fell down to 10KB/s or worse since 2-3 days. It used to have 4 flags (Running, Stable, Valid, Fast) but I'm afraid it lose the Rapid flag in the last days.

I really don't understand what's going on.

Tor logs seem not to show anything helping.

Nyx used to show thousand of "inbound" and thousands of "outbound", but rarely "circuits" or anything else (I have to say I understand nearly nothing in Nyx, as I can't find any tutorial explaining it deeply). Nowadays, Nyx shows thousands of inbound, but only a very few outbound, something like 20-30.

Server dosen't seem to have failings.

Tor version is 0.4.9.8. on linux

relay is minotor (B438F0D3E2281C307B459DB2ABDDB48871D06C18) at https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B438F0D3E2281C307B459DB2ABDDB48871D06C18

VPS is on interserver.net (2TB/month).

I can send logs or torrc if needed.

So my questions are :