# Help with multiple relays per IP keys
**URL:** https://forum.torproject.org/t/help-with-multiple-relays-per-ip-keys/10896
**Category:** Relay Operator
**Created:** [December 31, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/help-with-multiple-relays-per-ip-keys/10896 "2023-12-31T20:02:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@capole](https://forum.torproject.org/u/capole)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/help-with-multiple-relays-per-ip-keys/10896/1 "2023-12-31T20:02:38Z")
Hello everyone, it has been a while since I last commented on the forum. I decided to host a new relay with more resources since my first (and until now, only) relay. It goes down from time to time as it has very limited hardware available, 1vCPU and 1GB RAM, being RAM consumption over 75% at all times.
In my new machine with plenty resources I used `tor-instance-create` (edit: as I already host another relay there) to have more than one daemon up (and since the [new limit](https://community.torproject.org/relay/relays-requirements/#:~:text=Note%3A%20You%20can%20only%20run,will%20need%20more%20IPv4%20addresses.) is 8 relays per IP, I plan on setting up a few more).
**I want to transfer my old relay to this machine** , and that hasn’t been an issue with fresh installs since you just have to move your keys and set up torrc. However, **when using `tor-instance-create`** , **I just can’t locate where I can put new relays keys** or where they are created.
`/var/lib/tor/keys` just has the keys for your tor@default, and there is no /var/lib/tor-instances/$my\_instance\>/keys directory or similar on sight
Any idea? Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@capole](https://forum.torproject.org/u/capole)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2023, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/help-with-multiple-relays-per-ip-keys/10896/2 "2023-12-31T23:33:30Z")
Apparently some mandatory directories aren’t created until you first start the daemon, so that solves the issue.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.torproject.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/help-with-multiple-relays-per-ip-keys/10896/3 "2024-01-01T23:33:30Z")
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