Limiting Tor Relay To Run On Google Cloud VPS
Hi all, So a while back I was trying to run a tor relay via Google Cloud VPS but it was costing quite a bit. However, I was chatting with them, and I found out that as long as the relay generates a maximum of 4.9 GB per month and less than 2 million connections, it won't cost anything. I am wondering how to configure these limitations in tor? Thanks all. It's a small relay I know. --Keifer
I am not really sure if the overhead from Tor is alone more than 5 gigs a month.
On 19. Jul 2019, at 01:06, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
So a while back I was trying to run a tor relay via Google Cloud VPS but it was costing quite a bit. However, I was chatting with them, and I found out that as long as the relay generates a maximum of 4.9 GB per month and less than 2 million connections, it won't cost anything. I am wondering how to configure these limitations in tor?
Thanks all.
It's a small relay I know.
--Keifer _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Hi, On 19/07/2019 00:06, Keifer Bly wrote:
...as long as the relay generates a maximum of 4.9 GB per month... A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation gives about 16kbit/sec if you spread that bandwidth evenly over the whole month. The only way you could do it would be to have a relay that hibernates for the majority of the month, "concentrating" that 4.9GB into a day or so then doing nothing until the next billing period.
Whether that would really help the network is another matter - I don't know how "intermittent" nodes are handled. Even running a bridge would be challenging when the bandwidth is that limited. (You might be able to game the system by having multiple VPSes and moving the node around between them, using a VPN to bring it out at the same IP address every time, but that opens a whole new can of worms which I don't even want to think about.) Stephen
This question ties into something I've wondered for a while: Is there a minimum preferred bandwidth rate for relays? I had done some rough calculations a while ago that a $5 VPS from something like Digitalocean could provide approximately 2MiB/s while not exceeding the allotted bandwidth.At that speed, would it be worth adding additional relays? Friendlyexitnode ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, July 19, 2019 3:40 AM, Stephen Mollett <molletts@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
On 19/07/2019 00:06, Keifer Bly wrote:
...as long as the relay generates a maximum of 4.9 GB per month...
A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation gives about 16kbit/sec if you spread that bandwidth evenly over the whole month. The only way you could do it would be to have a relay that hibernates for the majority of the month, "concentrating" that 4.9GB into a day or so then doing nothing until the next billing period.
Whether that would really help the network is another matter - I don't know how "intermittent" nodes are handled.
Even running a bridge would be challenging when the bandwidth is that limited.
(You might be able to game the system by having multiple VPSes and moving the node around between them, using a VPN to bring it out at the same IP address every time, but that opens a whole new can of worms which I don't even want to think about.)
Stephen
tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
2MB * 60 * 60 * 24 *31 = 5356800 megz $5 will give you 1 TB with DigitalOcean ... This will not work out. I would recommend pushing Italy a little. There are datacenter with no traffic limits.
On 20. Jul 2019, at 01:13, friendlyexitnode <friendlyexitnode@protonmail.com> wrote:
This question ties into something I've wondered for a while: Is there a minimum preferred bandwidth rate for relays? I had done some rough calculations a while ago that a $5 VPS from something like Digitalocean could provide approximately 2MiB/s while not exceeding the allotted bandwidth.At that speed, would it be worth adding additional relays?
Friendlyexitnode
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, July 19, 2019 3:40 AM, Stephen Mollett <molletts@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
On 19/07/2019 00:06, Keifer Bly wrote:
...as long as the relay generates a maximum of 4.9 GB per month...
A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation gives about 16kbit/sec if you spread that bandwidth evenly over the whole month. The only way you could do it would be to have a relay that hibernates for the majority of the month, "concentrating" that 4.9GB into a day or so then doing nothing until the next billing period.
Whether that would really help the network is another matter - I don't know how "intermittent" nodes are handled.
Even running a bridge would be challenging when the bandwidth is that limited.
(You might be able to game the system by having multiple VPSes and moving the node around between them, using a VPN to bring it out at the same IP address every time, but that opens a whole new can of worms which I don't even want to think about.)
Stephen
tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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