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Realities of hosting a tor relay node at home (lemmy.world)
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I am in the EU. I want to help make the TOR network more robust by contributing a relay node. I have one of three hardware options: a raspberry pi zero W, raspberry pi 4B, or ThinkPad T470s.

In your practical experience, which of these computers would be the best for the network? As I understand, beyond a point, the CPU power doesn't matter unless massive traffic loads go through the node.

P.S: Not sure if this is relevant, but I currently have a pihole hosted in a separate RPI zero. I plan to host this at home. I do not have a separate connection line. My router doesn't support vlan.

Add: Thank you for the kind replies. Based on the feedback, it think I'm currently not setup to help the network. I will instead continue with my annual contribution.

I will look into hosting a node on a VPS and just pay a monthly subscription fee or something.

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I ran a relay too way, way back in the day and I remember almost a third of the sites I used blacklisted my IP address within days. It wasn't cool.

I ended up shutting it down, resetting my cable modem, and spoofing a new MAC address on my router to get a new IP address to get everything working again.

Using a VPN is smarter. I wouldn't run that on IPv6 whatsoever.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I am hosting a high speed relay right now, and have been for 4+ years, on my home address. I am not getting attacked beyond the usual drivebys that I'd get hit with regardless because I host other outward-facing things.

    You do look suspicious to large social media sites, but besides those: I've never been blocked from somewhere due to my relay.

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