[tor-relays] VPS Hardware Specification & Advice

[torrelay at mail.md]

Greetings!

My ISP British Telecom is rate limiting my Internet connection despite 
a big splashy advertising campaign earlier this year in which it 
claimed that it would no longer rate limit during so-called 'peak 
hours' or cap the bandwidth consumption when it reaches a ceiling that 
they decide is 'too much'.

I've tried various bandwidth rates that are a sensible percentage of 
the total available bandwidth but anything above a very small amount 
(50-80KB/s) is being rate limited even though the total amount of 
bandwidth available is approximately 30.00 Mbps downstream & 6.12 Mbps 
upstream. Now even 50-80 KB/s is rate limited.

Well, it's the school holidays started recently here & BT have just 
brought out a new streaming sports service which coincides with my 
bandwidth being rate becoming limited from about 2 weeks ago. I was 
able to run a consistently faster tor relay on British Telecom 7 years 
ago than I can today & I don't want to speak with a telephone operative 
in India who follows a script & will test my connection. I just take my 
business somewhere else -- rant finished!

Consequently I've sourced a company, located in a Scandinavian 
country, offering a VPS with 1TB of data consumption per month for 
approximately 18 Euros (more than half the price of my shitty, crippled 
British Telecom Internet connection) so I'll try this.

The cost of running the VPS is based on the hardware specification 
which brings me to my question.

I plan to utilise the full 1TB of data each month & I'd like some idea 
if the specification (below) is sufficient for an entry/middleman tor 
relay using 1000GB bandwidth per month.

The hardware specification I've chosen is:

CPU Cores: 1 - exact details of CPU are not specified on the company's 
website, problem?

RAM Memory: 1024 MiB

Traffic: 1000GB

Drive: 50GB

Price: 18 Euros

I'm completely new to VPS & am sure this will be a learning curve but 
no matter I will try to see if I can make it work even if performance 
of VPS might not be perfect.

If anyone has written a guide to hosting a tor relay on a VPS, I'd 
welcome any links to further information or any other useful advice 
based on experience of others.

Best regards,

Edvard.