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arux | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 What vps spec do you run the relay on
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laanwj | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 2 CPU, 2GB memory, 50GB disk; nothing fancy but enough to be above recommended specs for a Tor relay 😀 most important is to have plenty of bandwidth, and high or no traffic cap
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arux | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Am maxing out my bandwidth at home with my snowflake proxy so probably gotta get a VPS somewhere setup for this.
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laanwj | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 makes sense
besides the bandwidth, having a Tor bridge / snowflake proxy running from the same IP as a relay might be less useful because relay IPs are publicly listed, and snowflake proxies are supposed to be stealthy "hide in the crowd" things, so that they don't get blocked
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arux | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 And the OS? Debian or Ubuntu i guess doesn’t matter in the end or is there a super duper lightweight linux available for ?
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laanwj | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 i always choose stock debian (12), it's lightweight enough (in the minimum server install) while being easy to install packages for and do ad hoc sysadmin

if you have a lot of similar nodes to deploy i guess it's worth going the declarative minimalistic GUIX or Nix image route