[tor-relays] Digital Ocean: Moving to better Plan

[Abhiram Chintangal]

Hello Sebastian,

Thanks for responding.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Sebastian Urbach <sebastian at urbach.org>
wrote:

> On January 31, 2015 2:09:14 AM Abhiram Chintangal <
> abhiram.chintangal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Abhiram,
>
>
>> I have been running a tor middle relay[1] for the past few months.
>>
>
> Thank you very much !
>
>
>> One thing that I noticed in the last two months is that my relay is eating
>> up the 1tb bandwidth in the first three weeks. So I am thinking of moving
>> to a better plan or tweaking the current config to serve the bandwidth so
>> that the relay is up for the entire month.
>>
>
> I assume that you want a recommendation. A better plan probably means
> spending more money. Would be better for the network. If you can spare the
> money, go for it.
>
> If you dont want to spend more money than it would be a good idea to lower
> the Rate value until you end up within your traffic limit for the month.
> The benefit would be a permanent available relay.
>

 Hmm, I think I will try changing the rate and see what happens. Last year,
I used a daily limit instead of monthly one. It drastically reduced the
relays reported bandwidth ( 1Mbps to 60 kbps ).

Thanks!


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