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Is running Tor relays acceptable
Hello community,
This will be more of question to hosting providers because I'm just curious. Over the years I ran a few Tor relays (non-exit). I always tried to contact the provider if they're cool with it. Some of them were and some were not.
I understand a Tor relay can be treated as glorified public proxy constantly draining the network (30TB traffic per month is normal) so I don't blame anyone. TorProject only recommends asking the provider if you plan to run Exit relay, non-exits shouldn't even require permission as shouldn't generate complaints.
Running the relays for around 2 years I only ever got one complaint and it was for allegedly sending spam (someone reported my IP to spamhouse for no apparent reason) but nothing came out of it.
Have you ever had any problems with users running Tor on your infrastructure? Did it cause much trouble or impacted other client experience significantly? (like IP blacklists or overall network degradation)
I'm also interested in your handling of Exit Relays which are more troublesome from what I've heard.
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I am summoning @Francisco, because he is the perfect kind sir to answer your question.
We permit Tor Exits and have a guide for responsible Exit hosting here: https://incognet.io/tor-exits
No real issues. Sometimes we have to poke someone and ask them to update their exit policy to prevent common abuse ports.
Current list of Tor Exits on our network: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS210630
I absolutely admire your mission and plan to use your services in the future
Fun fact: I first found you browsing i2p. Not many hosting providers have eepsites yet.
Some providers don't allow Tor at all, however in most cases (unless they massively oversell bandwidth) you will be fine hosting non-exit Tor relays. Btw, we are completely fine with non-exit relays.
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS208046
We allow Exits and all on Dedicated Servers and relays on VPS
Thanks! We try to stay pretty invovled with I2P and sponsor resources like the official outproxy for I2P+, some reseed servers, etc. One of their devs is responsible for 95% of our website design, too. Good folks.
I will definitely try your services in the future but probably not for running a Tor relay. skhron.eu has rather strict bandwidth limits for this use-case. I really appreciate you for having a Nostr site and for supporting Poland of course