[network-health] Upgrade your 'glenda2' Tor relay?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 03:52:47PM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> The  nodes are  now  at  version 0.4.1.6.  Thanks  for  the hint  about 
> deb.torproject.org.                                                     

Thanks! Your upgraded relay looks good.

I've started the process of unblacklisting the fingerprint. It will
need a threshold of the directory authorities to pull the update, so it
could be a couple of days until it takes effect, but hopefully it will
be relatively soon.

You can go to the bottom of
https://consensus-health.torproject.org/#relayinfo
and paste in your fingerprint or nickname to see progress.

> Glenda1 and  glenda2 are both  dedicated VPS with  2 TB of  traffic per 
> month, exclusively for  the tor project. I  increased all BandwidthRate 
> settings to the following values:                                                
> 
> RelayBandwidthRate 1 M
> RelayBandwidthBurst 8 M
> AccountingMax 2 TB
> AccountingStart month 1 00:00

Looks reasonable. Be aware that some VPS providers count a byte in and a
byte out as two bytes. So if that's your provider, you're on track to be
double-spending for the month. See also "AccountingRule" in the man page.

> What's more needed on the network? Servers, which allow high bursts and 
> then  vanish or  servers, wich  offer constant  bandwidth, but  all the 
> time?                                                                   

It depends what bandwidthrate you're offering, but I think the answer in
general is "somewhere in between": pick a bandwidthrate where you'll be
around at least half of the month, and then maybe you'll be around for
the whole month too:
https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq#LimitTotalBandwidth

Thanks,
--Roger