[metrics-team] Collector Instance back up

[Tom Ritter]

Ah okay.  I think I will probably shut it down in that case; I am
going to be attempting to run two bwauths from the same box, so
reducing the network usage where I can seems prudent. It also means I
won't need to write that archival script and debug it =)

-tom

On 20 August 2017 at 15:29, Karsten Loesing <karsten at torproject.org> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On 2017-08-15 20:18, Tom Ritter wrote:
>> After a long absence the https://collector.ritter.vg/ instance is back
>> up and running.
>>
>> Please let me know if it appears to behave oddly. It should be stable,
>> and has been running for the past several days seemingly without
>> hiccups.
>
> Thanks for letting us know!
>
> However, please note that we're trying to depend less on unofficial
> mirrors and more on mirrors run on official Tor hosts.
>
> For example, we do have two official CollecTor hosts running right now,
> with the first syncing from the second. And we might add a third
> official Tor host there in the future, though we don't have specific
> plans for that yet.
>
> But we're currently not planning to add unofficial mirrors to this
> synchronization.
>
> That being said, iwakeh added your mirror to the wiki page here:
>
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/MetricsTeam/Operation
>
> By all means, feel free to continue running this mirror! And we'll be
> supporting you with that by keeping mirror operation, well, not harder
> than it has to be.
>
> You should just know that we might not be making use of your mirror in
> the foreseeable future.
>
> Hope that makes sense!
>
>> -tom
>
> All the best,
> Karsten
>