On Feb 1, 2015, at 7:00 AM, tor-relays-request@lists.torproject.org wrote:

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:23:39 -0800, Spencer Rhodes <spencer@rhodespa.com <mailto:spencer@rhodespa.com>> wrote:

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If you are on the 1TB plan at DigitalOcean, you will want to set something like the following:

RelayBandwidthRate 600 KB # Throttle traffic to 600KB/s RelayBandwidthBurst 1.2 MB # But allow bursts up to 1.2 MB/s

rather than set a daily or monthly limit. The reason being that your server will stay up all the time instead of suddenly hibernating (essentially going offline) when it hits the cap.

I'm not sure that's the best course of action. See the Tor Manual section for AccountingMax

https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en <https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en>

If you have bandwidth cost issues, enabling hibernation is preferable to setting a low bandwidth, since it provides users with a collection of fast servers that are up some of the time, which is more useful than a set of slow servers that are always "available".

Yes, I suppose that for a non-exit relay speed is more important than uninterrupted service...