[tor-relays] Thinking about deploying a new node

[grarpamp]

I do see some talk on this list that bridges are more
in need at the moment on balance. And that some
of the new obfs/scramble/pt protocols could use some
deployment testing and feedback.

As far as your proposed hoster, they do not seem to have
flatly refused an exit. You may wish to propose to them
actually running one under your suggested responsibly handling
abuse tickets for them. And make sure you can fall
back to non-exit or bridge with them without losing
money if exit does not mutually work out. Better to
know/talk these things with your provider beforehand.
You can suggest that since tor is 'slow' a genuine impactive
ddos is not really possible via tor, though of course feeble
packeting that people will still complain about is. Show
them your proposed exit policy, non smtp spam, etc.

3TB/mo is about 10Mbps so that is more the governing
factor for billing than 100Mbps port link. You can apply
various rate limits on tor or your system/port.

Tor itself does not need a fwd or rev fqdn to run. Though
a rev entry can help to clue people like LEA in that the
IP is in fact a tor node. And matching fwd/rev can help
give users access to services that check that thing. If
you do not have a domain to give, the host may be able
to put the node name in theirs.

Good luck, thx.