[tor-relays] Best practices to move a Tor node?

teor teor2345 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 27 23:39:05 UTC 2017


> On 27 Jul 2017, at 23:10, niftybunny <abuse at to-surf-and-protect.net> wrote:
> ...
>> On 27. Jul 2017, at 15:07, Isaac Grover, Aileron I.T. <igrover at aileronit.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Good morning from Wisconsin,
>> 
>> What are the best practices with regards to moving a Tor node to a new server in a different country? Is it as simple as securely transferring files to the new server and restarting the Tor service
> 
> Yes :)

You can also delete the old keys and start a new relay.

It's more secure, better for network load balancing, and easier to get
it right.

Your new VPS likely has different network performance to your old
VPS, and transferring the keys transfers the old performance
measurements. It's better for clients that performance measurements are
accurate, even if it takes some time for your new relay to be measured.

See this thread for more details:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-September/010229.html

T

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