Taking some answers from a reply to a different user:
The BCM2712 SoC microcontroller has a base frequency 1,5 GhZ with 4 cores and 4 threads, but most importantly, it also supports openSSL hardware acceleration, with up to 42 times faster AES speeds.
Also, regarding the "I'll just do this at home with my static IÜ until I want to repurpose my brand new Pi", there are datacenters who will colocate your Pi, at very affordable rates.
At least there were..
All the best, -GH
On Monday, November 4th, 2024 at 2:37 PM, David Goulet dgoulet@torproject.org wrote:
On 01 Nov (18:15:13), Keifer Bly wrote:
Hi,
So I am wondering, is a Raspberry Pi 4 a recommended device to run a tor relay on? In terms of traffic load, etc? Thanks.
Greetings,
For a while, Pies were not powerful enough to handle high throughput traffic that the network needed (and still needs). RAM was also very limited (relays at minimum need 4GB these days).
And this all gets worst when DDoS happen where the Pies of the network are the first one to die.
With the latest versions, they are quite more powerful. But, apart from CPU and RAM, what is massively important for a relay is uptime and reliability.
That is where a Pie on your home desk can be not so great. It can't be seen as just a fun experiment or just "I'll do that for 6 months until I can figure out something better to do with the Pie" also :S...
The Tor network needs relays that are powerful (better speed, better at soaking DDoS) and more importantly reliable and trustable. And so, if you are aiming for that with a Pie4, by all means :).
Cheers! David
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