running first Relay, low budget VPS on a Gigabit line
Hi, I have installed my first Tor-Relay on a low priced test VPS (1 BTC/m) hosted in NL some days ago. Today iftop shows the VPS puts 35 MByte/s in both directions through the line. *Phew* The hosting plan includes 50GB per month so I'm a bit over the fair use. What would you do? Let it run? throttle down? do no harm? Other than expected I only got a short mail with ssh login from them. The answer to my question if customers get some kind of admin-panel was: no, this would be higher security risk. contact us we do it in 2 hours. Any suggestions how to measure the traffic would be appreciated, must be roughly 12 TB the last 2 days. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web
Hi Tim,
Today iftop shows the VPS puts 35 MByte/s in both directions through the line. *Phew* The hosting plan includes 50GB per month so I'm a bit over the fair use.
What would you do? Let it run? throttle down? do no harm?
Check the comments and variables in the configuration file. The ones you are looking for are: RelayBandwidthRate RelayBandwidthBurst AccountingMax AccountingStart
Any suggestions how to measure the traffic would be appreciated, must be roughly 12 TB the last 2 days.
There are a number of approaches. I am running vnstat for this purpose. -- Rejo Zenger . <rejo@zenger.nl> . 0x21DBEFD4 . <https://rejo.zenger.nl> GPG encrypted e-mail preferred . +31.6.39642738 . @rejozenger
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:12:30 +0200 Rejo Zenger <rejo@zenger.nl> allegedly wrote:
Hi Tim,
Today iftop shows the VPS puts 35 MByte/s in both directions through the line. *Phew* The hosting plan includes 50GB per month so I'm a bit over the fair use.
What would you do? Let it run? throttle down? do no harm?
Check the comments and variables in the configuration file. The ones you are looking for are:
RelayBandwidthRate RelayBandwidthBurst AccountingMax AccountingStart
Any suggestions how to measure the traffic would be appreciated, must be roughly 12 TB the last 2 days.
There are a number of approaches. I am running vnstat for this purpose.
Plus one for vnstat from me. And you /really/ want to throttle your node if you are going that much over your allowance. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- blog: baldric.net fingerprint: E8D2 8882 F7AE DEB7 B2AA 9407 B9EA 82CC 1092 7423 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-- tim apteddy@ftml.net On Tue, Jun 12, 2012, at 08:21 PM, mick wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:12:30 +0200 Rejo Zenger <rejo@zenger.nl> allegedly wrote:
Hi Tim,
Today iftop shows the VPS puts 35 MByte/s in both directions through the line. *Phew* The hosting plan includes 50GB per month so I'm a bit over the fair use.
What would you do? Let it run? throttle down? do no harm?
Check the comments and variables in the configuration file. The ones you are looking for are:
RelayBandwidthRate RelayBandwidthBurst AccountingMax AccountingStart
Any suggestions how to measure the traffic would be appreciated, must be roughly 12 TB the last 2 days.
There are a number of approaches. I am running vnstat for this purpose.
Plus one for vnstat from me.
And you /really/ want to throttle your node if you are going that much over your allowance.
Mick
Hi Rejo and Mick, vnstat runs on my homebox but had strange effects on the vps. After starting the tor deamon some megabytes got counted. But then stoped counting all further traffic until vnstat -u, then counted again only some megabytes. Just reinstalled vnstat today and now it seems to work pretty well. The relay is limited to 1-2Mbyte/s now, lets see how long it stays. Am I going over my allowance or is somebody elso going over her/his allowance? They sell anonymous vservers for 5 bucks. Who cares? What if on my vacations someone gets access and makes 180 TB for a month? The question was more likely: Should i care? I don't care for the server, don't need it anymore. One could think: So long, and thanks for all the fish! -or- Thanks for the contribution whoever it was. tim -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 03:52:08PM -0700, tim wrote:
vnstat runs on my homebox but had strange effects on the vps. After starting the tor deamon some megabytes got counted. But then stoped counting all further traffic until vnstat -u, then counted again only some megabytes. Just reinstalled vnstat today and now it seems to work pretty well.
That's normal for vnstat. A typical installation will add a 'vnstat -u' entry to cron.
The relay is limited to 1-2Mbyte/s now, lets see how long it stays. Am I going over my allowance or is somebody elso going over her/his allowance? They sell anonymous vservers for 5 bucks. Who cares? What if on my vacations someone gets access and makes 180 TB for a month? The question was more likely: Should i care? I don't care for the server, don't need it anymore.
As a matter of principle, I should think one should care. $5 or not, you're potentially negatively impacting other users on your network. I'd hope the provider has a handle on that though ... In any case it sounds like you had at least a gentleman's agreement for 50GB per month and IMHO, people should honor such things. -ta
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