[tor-relays] Digital Ocean: Moving to better Plan (Abhiram Chintangal)

[Spencer Rhodes]

On Feb 1, 2015, at 7:00 AM, tor-relays-request at lists.torproject.org wrote:
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> On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:23:39 -0800, Spencer Rhodes <spencer at rhodespa.com <mailto:spencer at rhodespa.com>> wrote:
>> If you are on the 1TB plan at DigitalOcean, you will want to set something like the following:
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>> RelayBandwidthRate 600 KB  # Throttle traffic to 600KB/s
>> RelayBandwidthBurst 1.2 MB # But allow bursts up to 1.2 MB/s
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>> rather than set a daily or monthly limit. The reason being that your server will stay up all the time instead of suddenly hibernating (essentially going offline) when it hits the cap.
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> I'm not sure that's the best course of action. See the Tor Manual section for AccountingMax
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> https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en <https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en>
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> If you have bandwidth cost issues, enabling hibernation is preferable to setting a low bandwidth, since it provides users with a collection of fast servers that are up some of the time, which is more useful than a set of slow servers that are always "available".

Yes, I suppose that for a non-exit relay speed is more important than uninterrupted service...
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