[tor-talk] Setting up a Tor relay on the hosting server.

[William Wrightman]

I have not as yet purchased hosting so cannot answer the question.  Obviously if Debian is best then I would look for a Debian provider. 

What I want to do is to buy hosting with an amenable ISP or hosting provider so presumably I would not have root.  I then need to figure the easiest way to have Tor always on.


I imagine the best way of creating the binaries then running Tor is via SSH or perhaps the best way to run it is via cron.

--- On Wed, 8/17/11, Damian Johnson <atagar1 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Damian Johnson <atagar1 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Setting up a Tor relay on the hosting server.
To: tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 11:23 AM

Lets start with: what OS and do you have root on this box? If it's, for instance, a debian based distro then that makes the setup a lot nicer.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:57 AM, William Wrightman <williamwrightman at yahoo.com> wrote:


I have a couple of questions about setting up a Tor relay.  I've read https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en and https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-minimal-harassment and https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs


Here is what I understand happens.  Please correct me if the information below is wrong or could be better managed.

1.Select an hosting company. After you have the OK from them then upload the Tor tarball and untar it.  I think that only Tor is needed when you are operating as a relay (no need for the Vidalia GUI).  So at this point Tor is on the server of your hosting company.


2. Edit the torrc file with the appropriate exit policy.  Obviously you need to put the information in to make sure it is listed as an exit node so it is entered into the
 directory. 

3. I think I am right to say that you could then need to execute the Tor binary. So if you have /home_directory_name/tor then you would presumably need to SSH in and run the binary.  

Or would it be easier to setup a cron job so that the binary starts but then stays on permanently?


Thanks.

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