Hi, I just noticed that your bridge went offline an hour ago. I'm guessing that is because it is hibernating again. All Tor bridges are useful, but they are most useful when they are actually online. I would recommend shopping around for a different VPS provider that offers unmetered bandwidth meaning that they do not charge you extra if you go over a certain bandwidth threshold.

I've been running a Tor bridge for over 4 years now. My bridge usually has between 400 and 600 users at any given time of day and is online 24/7 on an unmetered bandwidth network. There was a time when my bridge was getting over 2000 simultaneous users. Check out my bridge: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/4A0B065DB3CF807C6910DFEF6D9CC...

I highly recommend using my VPS provider which is GCore and is located in Luxembourg. They offer unmetered 200 Mbps VPS servers. However, in my experience, the usable bandwidth is about 100 Mbps. https://hosting.gcore.com/billmgr?startform=v2.vds.order.pricelist

However, you can get a VPS server with them in locations all over the world. Use the drop down lists at the top of that page to choose a VPS in a different location.

I live in the US. I have to pay them in Euros which works for me. They accept bank cards and PayPal and other forms of payment methods. And if you look at the prices for VPS servers, they are very inexpensive starting at 3 Euros a month for unmetered bandwidth!

Of course, you don't have to get a VPS with my provider if you don't want to, but try to get a VPS where you don't have to hibernate your server. A lot of VPS server providers are totally ripping people off with extra bandwidth charges!

I wish you luck!

Landon

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 12:43 AM Keifer Bly keifer.bly@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

So for my bridge at

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/4D6E3CA2110FC36D3106C86940A1D...

Is set to hibernate once it reaches a certain traffic level (this is to prevent massive charges to my VPS). Now that is in hibernation, when will it start again, and how would this effect how it's distributed? Are bridges that are hibernating removed from relay search? Mew to hibernation, thanks.

May 14 18:49:39.000 [notice] Configured to measure statistics. Look for the *-stats files that will first be written to the data directory in 24 hours from now. May 14 18:49:39.000 [warn] You are running Tor as root. You don't need to, and you probably shouldn't. May 14 18:49:39.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 0% (starting): Starting May 14 18:49:47.000 [notice] Starting with guard context "default" May 14 18:49:47.000 [notice] Registered server transport 'obfs4' at '[::]:8081' May 14 18:49:48.000 [notice] Bandwidth soft limit reached; commencing hibernation. No new connections will be accepted May 14 18:49:48.000 [notice] Going dormant. Blowing away remaining connections. May 14 18:49:48.000 [notice] Delaying directory fetches: We are hibernating or shutting down. --Keifer _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays