[tor-onions] HS/Relay Multitenancy

[George Kadianakis]

Gareth Llewellyn <gareth at brasshorncommunications.uk> writes:

> Leading on from a discussion on Reddit's /r/onions;
>
> Given an operator who is "dual stacking" their website on both example.com and example.onion yet finds themselves with spare CPU/RAM/bandwidth and wants to operate a relay too what is the current community opinion of this? (given the caveats / conditions detailed below)
>
> On the inverse I operate a set of Exits [1] but these servers also have secondary services (ssh, grafana, httpd) that are exposed with onion services.
>
> There are recommendations for running multiple relays on the same host to maximize the CPU/bandwidth etc so I'd be interested if the community still opposes the running of HS' and Relays given the following conditions;
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> 1. No anonymity concerns from downtime correlation (example.com == example.onion)
> 2. Relay daemon is a separate instance to HS daemon
> 3. Relay daemon and HS daemon bind to different IPs
>

Hello Gareth,

If you are aware of (1) and you have spare bandwidth/CPU, then I don't
see a problem running a relay alongside to your HS daemon.