For those wishing to run I2P+ on a VPS, here is the last month of BW usage between two different I2P+ routers. This may give you an idea of what you should look for when determining bandwidth usage needs.

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asF wrote on January 24, 2021 at 10:01 PM

Thx! Anyone knows how much difference it is to run an eepsite on your home computer?

Rambler OP wrote on January 24, 2021 at 11:21 PM

Would depend on your settings, really. I do 100% BW share and have optimized the settings (mainly just router.config, but wrapper.config as well for increase memory usage to serve more traffic).

Since I have a data cap at home with slow rural wireless, I'd have to do very limited sharing to make sure I don't hit any limits.

asF wrote on January 25, 2021 at 3:29 AM (edited on January 25, 2021 at 3:29 AM)

data cap

Dead shot. I'll consider home-built quantum networks.

Rambler OP wrote on January 22, 2021 at 1:27 AM

Obviously, resource use will vary depending on how you have your router configured. Stock I2P won't require near as much bandwidth as an optimized / tweaked I2P+ configuration will.

If you're setting up a remote router, such as one on a VPS, make sure your provider is cool with it first. If they allow Tor relays, chances are they'll be more than fine with I2P, just send them a message.

Both routers above are just VPSes with 1GB of RAM and fair-share to 1 CPU core each and they operate fine. Could push more traffic with more resources (RAM/CPU) but I'm content with things as they are now.

bolaris wrote on January 22, 2021 at 10:17 AM

Wouldn't it be better to use i2pd on a vps?

z3d wrote on February 1, 2021 at 4:34 AM (edited on February 1, 2021 at 4:48 AM)

Just a small clarification: I2P+ doesn't require more bandwidth than stock I2P, though if you allocate I2P+ bandwidth, it will make more efficient use of it. That's particularly apparent on high bandwidth, high performance routers where I2P+ will quite happily push 8MB/s in both directions while hosting 14K participating tunnels.