[tor-relays] Limiting Tor Relay To Run On Google Cloud VPS

[niftybunny]

2MB * 60 * 60 * 24 *31 = 5356800 megz

$5 will give you 1 TB with DigitalOcean ...

This will not work out. 

I would recommend pushing Italy a little. There are datacenter with no traffic limits.

> On 20. Jul 2019, at 01:13, friendlyexitnode <friendlyexitnode at protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This question ties into something I've wondered for a while: Is there a minimum preferred bandwidth rate for relays? I had done some rough calculations a while ago that a $5 VPS from something like Digitalocean could provide approximately 2MiB/s while not exceeding the allotted bandwidth.At that speed, would it be worth adding additional relays?
> 
> Friendlyexitnode
> 
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Friday, July 19, 2019 3:40 AM, Stephen Mollett <molletts at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 19/07/2019 00:06, Keifer Bly wrote:
>> 
>>> ...as long as the relay generates a maximum of 4.9 GB per
>>> month...
>> 
>> A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation gives about 16kbit/sec if you
>> spread that bandwidth evenly over the whole month. The only way you
>> could do it would be to have a relay that hibernates for the majority of
>> the month, "concentrating" that 4.9GB into a day or so then doing
>> nothing until the next billing period.
>> 
>> Whether that would really help the network is another matter - I don't
>> know how "intermittent" nodes are handled.
>> 
>> Even running a bridge would be challenging when the bandwidth is that
>> limited.
>> 
>> (You might be able to game the system by having multiple VPSes and
>> moving the node around between them, using a VPN to bring it out at the
>> same IP address every time, but that opens a whole new can of worms
>> which I don't even want to think about.)
>> 
>> Stephen
>> 
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