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

[Seth]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:23:39 -0800, Spencer Rhodes <spencer at rhodespa.com>  
wrote:
> If you are on the 1TB plan at DigitalOcean, you will want to set  
> something like the following:
>
> RelayBandwidthRate 600 KB  # Throttle traffic to 600KB/s
> RelayBandwidthBurst 1.2 MB # But allow bursts up to 1.2 MB/s
>
> 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.

I'm not sure that's the best course of action. See the Tor Manual section  
for AccountingMax

https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en

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".