> First of all, thanks for running a relay. > > Based on my experience, what usually happens is that the provider of > your VPS observed during a period of time you used more than N mbps > constantly and all the time, so they capped your VPS at some KB/s limit. > There are performance monitoring scripts that could do this > automatically. A virtual private server shares the network card of the > host with the other VPSes on that host, so almost all providers do not > allow you to use it all by yourself all the time for long periods. You > can open a ticket upstream and they will confirm if this is the case or not. > > Nothing you can do about this unfortunately, most providers do this, > even the ones they say they don't do it :) Only thing you can do is get > a dedicated server with guaranteed bandwidth, or try to convince them to > at least lift your the limitation for your VPS to 1mbps. > >
In this case, this is not going on as we *are* the provider. I'm a sysadmin on the network and I'm one of the guys that would be in charge of limiting any machines which violated any rules. :-) Trey Nolen _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
