2015-10-14 23:00 GMT+02:00 Tim Wilson-Brown - teor <teor2...@gmail.com>: > > On 15 Oct 2015, at 07:55, Cristian Consonni <kikkocrist...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am currently running three small relays on two different services/ISPs. > > I have two somewhat unrelated questions: > * given costant resource (i.e. euro/month) I can afford to run relays > is it in general better to run one bigger relay or, say, two smaller > ones. > > > One bigger relay - more bandwidth, less latency, and less work for you, > unless… you are providing diversity of locations (geographic or AS), > operating systems, or configurations with your multiple relays.
I am providing geographic diversity, yes. > * are there any tools to manage multiple tor node? For example, if I > want to check if there are security updates I have to login separately > in each system and launch them manually. Is this the way I should do > this or there are ways to monitor the status of all my nodes and > maintaing them as a whole. > > > Debian has an unattended-upgrades package that will even restart the machine > when needed, if configured to do so. > (I think there’s another package for the restarts.) > It will also send emails every time it upgrades a package. > > You might want to consider also doing Tor version upgrades this way, but > I’ve found that it's best to do them manually but regularly, then check they > worked. Others might have better experiences with automated Tor upgrades. thanks for the advice. Cristian _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
