Hello,
i have been running a new relay for a short time period now and would
like to bring to your attention the issues faced, that finally led me to
refrain from keeping this up any longer:
 * Documentation was ok (on torproject.org) and the installation (using
  deb on ubuntu) was easy.
 * It took quite some time to understand the implications (opening
  ports in the router, hazarding security to my computers, as i was -
  to this date - relying on the routers firewall working) - This job
  of mine basically got delayed until later, when i would have
  learned, what is needed in that respect.
 * Next, i noticed a frequent (daily) behavior of the Tor server
  dropping traffic to around zero. Inspecting this, let me to
  understand, my provider was disconnecting me and reassigning a new
  IP on a daily basis, which took some time to propagate. Even worse:
  It did not propagate on its own, i needed to restart the tor service
  to reinitialise...
 * Asking in the online channel, i was guided to change my "Nickname"
  torrc config to match the dyndns entry corresponding to my server.
 * But this never made it to the directories, thus forcing me to
  manually restart Tor on a daily basis in order to force the changing
  IP address into them.
 * Finally, i was told, this behavior would be disruptive to the
  network, i therefore brought the service down for good, wasting the
  bandwith, i was willing to spend, for the near future. :-)
 * Ok, otherwise, i would have to pay additional fees to rent a server
  off-site with a permanent IP, but that would be giving more, than
  what was easily affordable, as my machine is running 24/7 and the
  connections open anyway. Thus Tor doesnt seem to be able to absorb
  the kind of bandwith, i was willing to share long time.
This is leaving a sad taste on me, who is pretty much interested in
privacy, anonymosity, which led me to avoid the mailing lists with a
durable email-address. But just using a read-only one wouldnt allow me
to post to the list. That is why i created this one temporarily, just to
let you know about my experiences...
NewTorKidOnTheBlock
(this was the name of my Tor relay)
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