Hello,
I've been tearing my hair out a bit lately. I launched a Tor middle relay a few weeks ago, but every so often, I get a dramatic spike in upload traffic, and the relay becomes almost unusable—or even crashes... I thought it might be a DDoS attack, but I'm not sure.
Is something going on with the network right now, or is it on my end? I’ve set the relay’s bandwidth rate to 52 MB and 55 MB burst, but sometimes the upload speed hits 100 MB/s…
The relay averages around 10 MB, and then suddenly it runs at 60–100 MB/s for several hours at a time.
I already have a UFW firewall that only allows the relay ports on my server.
It takes a while to get flags, and since my relay crashes because of these network spikes, I lose a good portion of my flags and basically have to start all over again... It's really frustrating.
Thanks