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I've heard of some ISPs having metered ipv4 but unmetered ipv6.  Make
all of your instances ipv6 only and you might be able to get more
bang-per-buck.

-V

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 4:55 AM, nusenu <nusenu@openmailbox.org> wrote:
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>> - Bandwidth: the instances being used come with 1000TB per month.
>> This has been set as the cap in the torrc file so each instance can
>> in theory use all 1000TB before it stops passing traffic.
>
> 1000TB?
> I guess you actually mean 1000 GB (=1TB)...?
>
> You definitely should consider going somewhere with unmetered traffic,
> since 1TB / month isn't a lot. The relay will hit the cap fast and
> won't run for most of the month? IMHO this model doesn't scale well
> with digital ocean's pricing.
>
> You would be able to achieve a far bigger impact if you crowd source
> bigger unmetered instances.. where you add an instance per sponsor.
> Obviously that has to be transparent to the sponsor.
>
>
>> - Each relay is SSD based (20gigs), comes with 1 "cpu" (these are
>> virtual instances) and 512mb of RAM
>
> Do you have experience with running relays on 512MB of RAM?
>
>
>> - As far as running two relays on one instance,
>
> given the limited available memory you probably don't want to run two
> instances
>
>
>> - In all honesty, the MyFamily option is something that I didn't
>> think would really apply to this as the goal is to never actually
>> login to these boxes.
>
> You don't want to manage more than a hand full of relays without
> central management. "never actually login" is IMHO not very realistic
> long term.
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