[tor-bugs] #4387 [Analysis]: How much GB does a useful relay push per week?

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#4387: How much GB does a useful relay push per week?
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 Reporter:  runa      |          Owner:  karsten
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Comment(by runa):

 Replying to [comment:1 karsten]:
 > And here are the results: The total bandwidth pushed by all relays
 during one week (October 28 to November 3) was 583 TiB/wk or 0.99 GiB/s.
 There were on average 2375 relays in the consensus during that time.
 Hence, an average relay pushed 251 GiB/wk or 436 KiB/s.

 Ok, definitely not something we want to put into the cloud at this point.

 > Maybe we should turn the question around: What's the maximum bandwidth
 that a cloud relay can push per week before becoming crazy expensive?  If
 it costs ten times the amount to run a cloud relay that pushes one tenth
 of the bandwidth that a rented virtual server pushes, maybe it's a bad
 idea to offer cloud relays.  (Also consider the development effort
 required to offer and maintain cloud relays.)

 It sounds like running a relay in the cloud is going to be too expensive.
 I do agree that we should look into just how much a cloud relay can push
 per week before becoming crazy expensive, though.

 As for development effort; creating and maintaining cloud relay images
 will not require a lot of time, so this will not block anything.

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