[tor-relays] decrease in traffic

[Trey Nolen]

> First of all, thanks for running a relay.
>
> Based on my experience, what usually happens is that the provider of
> your VPS observed during a period of time you used more than N mbps
> constantly and all the time, so they capped your VPS at some KB/s limit.
> There are performance monitoring scripts that could do this
> automatically. A virtual private server shares the network card of the
> host with the other VPSes on that host, so almost all providers do not
> allow you to use it all by yourself all the time for long periods. You
> can open a ticket upstream and they will confirm if this is the case or not.
>
> Nothing you can do about this unfortunately, most providers do this,
> even the ones they say they don't do it :) Only thing you can do is get
> a dedicated server with guaranteed bandwidth, or try to convince them to
> at least lift your the limitation for your VPS to 1mbps.
>
>


In this case, this is not going on as we *are* the provider.   I'm a
sysadmin on the network and I'm one of the guys that would be in charge
of limiting any machines which violated any rules.  :-)


Trey Nolen