Oops. Server = hidden service and node = relay. It made sense in my mind, but precision is important. I'm already kinda tight on my bitcoin node (190/256MB). Averaging 1MByte/s and 20 simultaneous connections, would it be worth trying to squeeze a Tor hidden service in there? What are the determinants of the memory use? Is it more # of connections or rate of traffic?
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Roger Dingledine <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:17:37PM -0400, Tyler Hardin wrote: > > Why is it suggested not to do this? Does it matter as long as I'm not at > > all concerned about privacy? I want to run a wallet-less bitcoin node and > > thought I might as well make it accessible via Tor, however it definitely > > isn't worth paying for an extra server to serve as a dedicated proxy. > > Right, I think it is fine to run a normal website on the Internet and also > make it available as an onion site by running Tor on the same computer. > > It all comes down to what security goals you have in mind. If one of > your goals is to protect the location of the website so people visiting > it cannot learn where it is, then you have many more things you ought > to think about. > > But for your situation, it sounds fine. For background you might enjoy: > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/facebook-hidden-services-and-https-certs > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-May/thread.html#37820 > > > BTW, what kind of memory usage can I get by with to run a Tor server? How > > about a Tor node? > > These phrases "Tor server" and "Tor node" are ambiguous. You might enjoy > > https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#ConfigureRelayOrBridge > https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#ExitPolicies > https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services > > Running a Tor relay can use quite a bit of memory depending on how much > traffic it's handling. Running a Tor bridge generally means you're > handling much less traffic, and so the memory footprint is much lower. > And running an onion service (aka hidden service) is usually very low > memory footprint too, but it depends how popular the service is. > > Hope that helps, > --Roger > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
