as with today the total bandwidth of my tor nodes have reached more than 72 MiB/s which roughly 600 Mbit/s. The e* describe exits, the r* relays. Update 01.10.2021 The contract of some of my VMS has not been prolonged. So the bandwidth has decreased to 27 MiB/s 🙁 https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/4punk7
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Running a Tor Exit Node
After running a tor middle relay successfully for some months at home it was time take the next step: I rented a virtual server on the internet and installed a tor exit node on it. What made me do it ? Firstly, I use the tor browser myself quite often to “investigate” on the topics of my interest without leaving any traces. I value privacy and anonymity and wanted to support others to maintain their privancy and anonymity. I have received so much support in terms of software or services that I am very thankful for. Thats why I set...
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I have moved my Tor-Relay from my Synology NAS to a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. This was due to the reason that the TOR-Relay-package from Synology Italy works like a charm on my x86-NAS but not on my “web”-NAS (running on ARM-Processor). Configuration was fine, ports were open but starting the Tor-deamon always brought up “Bad Arguments” Errors. The package seems corrupt. I therefore set up a Pi/with Debian based Raspbian as Webserver (Apache), Torrelay, Torrent-Client (Transmission-Deamon with nice webinterface and App on F-Droid), FTP-Server, Mail-Server and Jabber-Server. I want to keep the webservices server apart from my datastorage-NAS for...
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