Hi,
From the Community portal, Tor relay technical considerations:
## AS/location diversity
It is best to avoid hosts where many Tor relays are already hosted, but it is still better to add one there than to run no relay at all.
Try to avoid the following hosters:
OVH SAS (AS16276) Online S.a.s. (AS12876) Hetzner Online GmbH (AS24940) DigitalOcean, LLC (AS14061)
To find out which host and countries are already used by many other operators (that should be avoided) you can use Relay Search:
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#aggregate/as
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#aggregate/cc
Source: https://community.torproject.org/relay/technical-considerations/
cheers, Gus
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:03:24AM -0700, Eddie wrote:
William,
At (about) what number of relays per provider should we be considering looking elsewhere.
Cheers.
On 4/1/2021 12:53 AM, William Kane wrote:
Hi,
no, OVH is the second most commonly used hosting provider, another relay hosted there would hurt the network more than it would help:
https://metrics.torproject.org/bubbles.html#as
We need to make the network as diverse as possible, in order to make it as hard as possible for law enforcement and other bad actors to de-anonymize tor circuits.
--Very large snip snip--
Look for a host, get it's AS ID, then input it here: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:<AS_NUMBER>
Example:
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/as:AS197019
If this was a bit too much, I apologize - I will gladly answer any questions you have.
- William
On 30/03/2021, Keifer Bly keifer.bly@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am wondering if OVH is a safe VPS provider to run an exit relay on? Thank you.
--Keifer
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