>
>
> I have been running a tor middle relay[1] for the past few months.
>
> One thing that I noticed in the last two months is that my relay is eating
> up the 1tb bandwidth in the first three weeks. So I am thinking of moving
> to a better plan or tweaking the current config to serve the bandwidth so
> that the relay is up for the entire month.
>
> I assume that you want a recommendation. A better plan probably means
> spending more money. Would be better for the network. If you can spare the
> money, go for it.
>
> If you dont want to spend more money than it would be a good idea to lower
> the Rate value until you end up within your traffic limit for the month. The
> benefit would be a permanent available relay.
>
> Hmm, I think I will try changing the rate and see what happens. Last year, I
> used a daily limit instead of monthly one. It drastically reduced the relays
> reported bandwidth ( 1Mbps to 60 kbps ).
>
If you are on the 1TB plan at DigitalOcean, you will want to set something like
the following:
RelayBandwidthRate 600 KB # Throttle traffic to 600KB/s
RelayBandwidthBurst 1.2 MB # But allow bursts up to 1.2 MB/s
rather than set a daily or monthly limit. The reason being that your server
will stay up all the time instead of suddenly hibernating (essentially going
offline) when it hits the cap.
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