[tor-relays] a couple noob questions

[George Hartley]

Hey,

this should help you out:

https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay/

Sincerely,
George

On Monday, August 19th, 2024 at 8:01 PM, observatory123 via tor-relays <tor-relays at lists.torproject.org> wrote:

> Dear fellow relay operators,
> 

> I've been hosting a tor relay on a VPS (strato) for a couple days now. I've never done this before, so I have a couple of questions:
> 

> 

> -   Is it normal for my relay to only use up only about 2 MB/s after nearly 5 days of uptime despite bandwidth speed tests done with speedtest-cli generally reporting significantly higher bandwidth?
> -   Is it normal for my relay to advertise 7.37 MiB/s on its relay search page despite bandwidth speed tests done with speedtest-cli generally reporting significantly higher bandwidth?
> -   Do I have to mark somewhere that I'm hosting the tor relay on a VPS (which means technically a company also has control over the relay)?
> -   Is this mailing list a good place to ask these questions? Or am I reaching too many people by doing this?
>     

> 

> 

> When I say I performed a bandwidth test, I mean I performed a bandwidth test with the speedtest-cli debian package. The test generally tells me I have about 217 MB/s download speed and 113 MB/s upload speed. The nickname of my relay is observatory123 and its fingerprint is:
> 

> 45431BF8AB66C673942C1E344BB520625CE5F817
> 

> Kind regards,
> observatory123
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