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.
Hi Tim,
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.
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:12:30 +0200 Rejo Zenger rejo@zenger.nl allegedly wrote:
Plus one for vnstat from me.
And you /really/ want to throttle your node if you are going that much over your allowance.
Mick
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 03:52:08PM -0700, tim wrote:
That's normal for vnstat. A typical installation will add a 'vnstat -u' entry to cron.
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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