Tor enables more secure browsing then raw browsing, but does not guarantee [[Privacy]]. I'm pretty sure it's been cracked a 3-letter agencies for years via Relay Poisoning. ## Relays I've setup a few relays before, and they were a rewarding experience. They consume a lot of bandwidth on a daily basis, and can run up your bill significantly. I wouldn't run one on a home network, I'd use a VPS. I've had good experience with AWS for a non-exit relay. ## Exit or Non-Exit? Definitely Non-Exit. Exit relays actually connect to the internet and can get you in legal trouble, depending on what others browse. Most ISPs don't allow it anyways. ### Hosting Experiences In 2021, for my Relay, I had a t2.micro ubuntu instance with tor and nyx. It had `1 GB` of ram and `1 VCPU`. I never fully loaded it in the couple months I ran a relay. I had `1 GiB` up/down symmetric. I consistently would get `2.5MB/s` of traffic, and I paid around *30$ a month* for that. --- # References