On 4/4/19, Conrad Rockenhaus conrad@rockenhaus.com wrote:
I have a FreeBSD box on a 1 Gbit/s connection. I'm trying to determine if we need more high speed relays or high speed exit relays. The AS it's on has no plain relays, just exit relays. That's what has me wondering what to do.
https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html Exit and non-exit appear both roughly equal at around 50% utilization. Perhaps a coin toss there.
https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html There may be long term performance trends to try enhancing or reversing as desired.
https://metrics.torproject.org/relayflags.html There's 1000 exits, fraction that are variously p0wn3d is unknown.
Was mentioned above the AS is already represented by exits, so diversity needs there may be moot, unless traffic there is added up and found to be disproportionally low compared to other AS, region, etc.
https://metrics.torproject.org/services.html https://metrics.torproject.org/ There are more resources here.
If all else equal, the answer may be... do you prefer to grow the ISP relationship as an exit from today, including any extra fraffic costs and cancellation or legal exposure, or prefer to enable the exit forms of those four later on.
Or survey other ISP and locations for the tor node.
Or even assist other network overlay projects with their nodes.
Lots of considerations can go into success and diversity of the privacy anonymity freedom space overall when wondering "what to do with my box" :)