[tor-relays] New Exit-Relay / First abuse issues

[nusenu]

thanks for sharing your experience with your hoster.

tor-markus:
> Hey *,
> 
> I run C65EF5E06B8338CF976D376048BE2C8FBD499C9C for about a month. On
> Monday I received the first abuse ticket from my ISP (Contabo GmbH).
> The ticket contained lots and lots of log information from a fail2ban
> system so GMail sent it right into the spam folder. 24 hours later I
> received a monitoring e-mail that my server was down. After a little
> search through my mails I found out that Contabo shuts down all
> services within 24h if there is no reply. That kinda sucked because I
> run some private services on this machine (different ip).

strongly recommended: 

do NOT mix tor exit relay services with other services
you depend on on the same operating system.
for multiple reasons:
- don't suffer as much when the server gets shutdown or seized
- easier to argue that the server was a tor exit and only a tor exit
- smaller attack surface

 

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