My vps provider will allow a exit node as long as give them a email address to send me the complaints so they don't have to deal with it but I'm wondering what type of specs I should get. Is 512mb of ram in a vps good enough? I know it will use a lot of traffic but I don't know how much memory a exit node would need to handle a lot of traffic. Also are there any control panels that will show me stats about my exit node?

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boobs wrote on December 25, 2020 at 12:05 AM

the primary requirement for an exit node that no one tells you about:

balls of steel.

Rambler wrote on December 25, 2020 at 7:16 AM

the primary requirement for an exit node that no one tells you about:

balls of steel.

Has anyone ever been arrested or held legally liable for running an exit node (in a modern country, like the US/CA/UK/Etc)?

I've thought about running one as well since my server provider is okay with it as long as I handle the abuse complaints which is basically copy/pasting a cookie cutter response on how it's an exit-node and not possible to tell the origin of whatever it is the complaint is about.

z3d wrote on December 24, 2020 at 4:49 PM

For a terminal based Tor monitor, look no further than nyx: https://nyx.torproject.org/

Jogger OP wrote on December 24, 2020 at 9:55 PM

Oh cool that's even better it's backed by the torproject. I'll check it out!

Rambler wrote on December 24, 2020 at 4:18 PM

Per https://community.torproject.org/relay/relays-requirements/

A <40 Mbit/s non-exit relay should have at least 512 MB of RAM available.
A non-exit relay faster than 40 Mbit/s should have at least 1 GB of RAM.
On an exit relay we recommend at least 1.5 GB of RAM per tor instance.

Not sure about the control panel to manage it, but that'd add overhead to the RAM requirement. Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's "set it and forget it". What are you wanting to do with a control panel? See network graphs and stats and stuff? Observium or Librenms will collect pretty much any server related stat that you could ever need. Those will chart and graph things like CPU, RAM, Disk IO, Network Graphs, uptime, etc all over time. From very recent to multiple years if you keep it running long enough.

Jogger OP wrote on December 24, 2020 at 4:28 PM

Ok cool thanks. I just wanted to see network charts basically. I will look into those.