I wrote:
Isis,
Why, then, has there been discussion of the use of Raspberry Pis
without mention of this?
People have taken it upon themselves to run relays on raspis, but
that's not exactly Tor's fault.
It seems really obvious not to run a relay off of an extremely
low-power computer. IRL, I always try to convince people not to do it,
but it rarely works. Honestly I would recommend against it even for a
bridge, but there's something to be said for having increased address
diversity at the expense of performance. (But I *also* don't want
bridge users to be penalized for needing to use a bridge).
Raspberry Pis are decent for most running hidden services, however
they suck royally for relays.
But to answer your actual question: because we each only have a finite
amount of time and can't respond to every thread. As for what to run a
relay on, there are very small servers that run about $100 that get the
job done.
I follow the "1 rule" -- At a bare minimum, 1GB RAM & 1Ghz CPU,
connected via ethernet, with "RelayBandwidthRate 1000 KB" set in torrc.
This is for a dedicated machine that only runs a relay. Not a raspi, not
your phone, not a cafe wifi in Kamchatka. Test your internet speed
before setting up your relay and you may be pleasantly surprised at how
much throughput you can get. =) Helping the network is really important,
but you want to make sure that you're not actually hurting the network
on accident.
best,
Griffin
--
"I believe that usability is a security concern; systems that do
not pay close attention to the human interaction factors involved
risk failing to provide security by failing to attract users."
~Len Sassaman
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