RE: Tor server monthly data transfer requirements

["Michael Laccetti" <michael@s2g-limited.com>]

Title: Re: Tor server monthly data transfer requirements

I've been monitoring my bandwidth usage on my Tor server (not the client), and my usage has increase to about 4GB/day (2 in, 2 out).  I'm not that sure how often my server is used, though.  I don't have any concrete port monitoring watching, just overall bandwidth usage.  I can toss on Ethereal and ntop, and check to see specifically how much is being used.  Assuming that I have the time to, that is.  :)

 

Mike

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From: owner-or-dev@freehaven.net [mailto:owner-or-dev@freehaven.net] On Behalf Of Patrick McFarland
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 11:22 AM
To: or-dev@freehaven.net
Subject: Re: Tor server monthly data transfer requirements

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 08:39:24 -0700, Joel Mawhorter
<joel-pub@mawhorter.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been looking at the various Tor docs over the last few weeks and I've
> seen conflicting numbers on the amount of monthly traffic I should expect if
> I set up a tor server. I have a VPS with 10 Gb/month transfer limit and I
> wan't to know if I could expect to be under that if I ran a tor server. I
> recognize that there could be unpredictable changes in that so I'm just
> looking for a recent estimate.

From what I understand, you'll be seeing more peak traffic than
constant, so I guess you will be below that. Tor needs the ability to
send stats to a central tor-stats server or something so we can get
concreate facts about this.

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