How to maximize Relay contribution?

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I am looking for guidance on how to maximize my positive impact on the Tor network via operating a Guard/Middle Relay.

Assuming I have a fixed budget of 20-30 euro per month, how would I contribute the most effectively

  • Rent a dedicated Kimsufi server at OVH (French IP) with 500 Mbps unmetered
  • Rent 4 x VPS-1 at OVH (French IP) with 400 Mbps shared unmetered each
  • Rent 4 VPS at Racknerd (German IP) with 40 TB metered traffic each month per VPS (6 CPU - 8 GB ram)
  • Rent 4-5 x VPS at more obscure providers in Poland/Ukraine with 5 TB metered traffic each month per VPS (1 CPU - 1 GB Ram each). The providers would be selected to ensure independence from the already oversupplied hosting providers (cf. OVH/etc).

Given that I already rent the dedicated and 1 VPS-1 at OVH I have also uploaded the YABS for reference.

https://imgur.com/a/7RZuvM5 –> OVH Dedicated

https://imgur.com/a/snSwZv3 → OVH VPS

Feel free to give any suggestions if you consider another option to be even better.

Thanks!

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Thanks for running Tor relays.

As you probably know, it is currently recommended that you avoid OVH to reduce the impact of a single provider outage.

While bandwidth is important, you could have a bigger impact on the Tor network by using the more obscure providers you mentioned, provided they allow you to run Tor relays.

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Thank you for your reply!

I will proceed with using different providers (Netcup / Racknerd for those interested) in order to contribute to network diversity.

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