# My Tor Node Migration
**URL:** https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885
**Category:** Relay Operator
**Created:** [August 23, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885 "2023-08-23T16:33:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Shadow](https://forum.torproject.org/u/Shadow)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885/1 "2023-08-23T16:33:08Z")
Alright I’ve decided to uproot two of my servers from BuyVM
it’s unstable and have determined that the reason my nodes are crashing is because it’s running out of resources.
And to make it stave I would have to drop $30/month
So. Anyone know of a hosting provider regardless if it’s VPS or Dedicated Boxes know of a good place to host Tor Nodes?
All I believe i need a box or a VPS that has 4Gbs of ram and 2+ vCPU cores
Ipv6 and ipv4
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### Author:  [@thomasred](https://forum.torproject.org/u/thomasred)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885/2 "2023-08-23T17:19:26Z")
I personally use yourserver.se for their unmetered plan, I don’t complain
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### Author:  [@atari](https://forum.torproject.org/u/atari)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 3:22am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885/3 "2023-08-24T03:22:05Z")
> **[Tor Project | Good Bad ISPs](https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/good-bad-isps/)**
>
> Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship. | Good Bad ISPs
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160329121849/https://wiki.nyr.es/servidores\_dedicados\_low\_cost](https://web.archive.org/web/20160329121849/https://wiki.nyr.es/servidores_dedicados_low_cost)
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### Author:  [@cozybeardev](https://forum.torproject.org/u/cozybeardev)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 3:22am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885/4 "2023-08-24T03:22:18Z")
Do you have a link to one of your nodes hosted there? Curious about the real world performance you’re having.
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### Author:  [@boldsuck](https://forum.torproject.org/u/boldsuck)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 3:22am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885/5 "2023-08-24T03:22:40Z")
> [@Shadow](#):
>
> it’s unstable and have determined that the reason my nodes are crashing is because it’s running out of resources.
?? My $ 3,50 slice @ BuyVM/frantech ist stable:
[https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/D00795330D77C75344C54FB8800531FAB3C40FBE](https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/D00795330D77C75344C54FB8800531FAB3C40FBE)
> [@Shadow](#):
>
> Anyone know of a hosting provider regardless if it’s VPS or Dedicated Boxes know of a good place to host Tor Nodes?
search: lowendtalk tor
> **[Looking for virtual servers for 10 TOR exit nodes](https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/183226/looking-for-virtual-servers-for-10-tor-exit-nodes)**
>
> To provide people in Russia, Belarus, Iran and other countries with free and uncensored access to the Internet, we would like to support the TOR project by running 10 TOR exit nodes:
> **[TOR Relay/Bridge](https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/185210/tor-relay-bridge)**
>
> Hello, I want to update a bit the list of Good/Bad ISPs from here here
> **[Cheap Hosters that allow TOR Exit node](https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/186269/cheap-hosters-that-allow-tor-exit-node)**
>
> Hi, does someone know cheap hosters that allow TOR exit nodes on their vps? Incognet,io looks good, but it's expensive. annual budget is max.
> **[metaDedi](https://en.metadedi.net/)**
>
> dedicated server comparison table, offers from 2.99€
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### Author:  [@thomasred](https://forum.torproject.org/u/thomasred)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885/6 "2023-08-24T12:37:27Z")
I have their cheapest plan, I’ve been limited by CPU usage so I recently limited the MaxAdvertised Bandwidth
[https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B368E7B96C5A06FD246DB3740D8965A4A08A1E72](https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B368E7B96C5A06FD246DB3740D8965A4A08A1E72)
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### Author:  [@capole](https://forum.torproject.org/u/capole)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885/7 "2023-08-24T12:37:29Z")
If you’d like to stay on your current provider you can limit the advertised bandwidth on your nodes, this will limit the amount of circuits created with your nodes. Less CPU and RAM will be used. I host a node on a free plan that runs on 1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM, it once got overwhelmed due to being a guard, it became unresponsive more often than not and had a pretty big crash once, I then limited it with `MaxAdvertisedBandwidth` and had no problem since then. My observed BW is around 10 MB/s but limited it to 5. It’s a small relay but it’s better than not offering anything.
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### Author:  [@Shadow](https://forum.torproject.org/u/Shadow)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885/8 "2023-08-24T21:54:03Z")
That may help me since it’s dieing around 21MiB/s
what is the line i need to add to the torcc file?
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### Author:  [@atari](https://forum.torproject.org/u/atari)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2023, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885/9 "2023-08-25T08:07:46Z")
add
if it dies at 21 MBit/s try:
```auto
RelayBandwidthRate 1875 KB # equals 15 megabits
RelayBandwidthBurst 1875 KB
```
if it dies at 21 MiB/s try:
```auto
RelayBandwidthRate 15728 KB # equals 15 mebibytes
RelayBandwidthBurst 15728 KB
```
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### Author:  [@capole](https://forum.torproject.org/u/capole)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2023, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885/10 "2023-08-25T08:44:14Z")
According to nyx, MaxAdvertisedBandwidth will do the following:
> If set, we will not advertise more than this amount of bandwidth for our BandwidthRate. Server operators who want to reduce the number of clients who ask to build circuits through them (since this is proportional to advertised bandwidth rate) can thus reduce the CPU demands on their server without impacting network performance.
It’s as easy as defining it on the torrc config file. I put it just under AccountingMax and so on, as it is related to limiting the use of the relay.
MaxAdvertisedBandwidth 5 MBytes
If your relay dies at 21 MiB/s, try to limit it to 15 and slowly bring it up or down until it is suitable for your needs
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### Author:  [@boldsuck](https://forum.torproject.org/u/boldsuck)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/my-tor-node-migration/8885/11 "2023-08-25T13:05:36Z")
> [@Shadow](#):
>
> That may help me since it’s dieing around 21MiB/s
>
> what is the line i need to add to the torcc file?
I just noticed I upgraded the KVM when I made an exit out of the relay.
Before 1G RAM $3.50 now 2G RAM for $7.
My torrc settings for the 2048MB RAM BuyVM slice:
```auto
RelayBandwidthRate 20 MBytes
RelayBandwidthBurst 100 MBytes
MaxAdvertisedBandwidth 100 MBytes
```
It only runs a tor daemon + unbound & ntpd + sshd too, of course.
[Bandwidth values in Tor](https://onbasca.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bandwidth_tor.html)