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
Am maxing out my bandwidth at home with my snowflake proxy so probably gotta get a VPS somewhere setup for this.
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
And the OS? Debian or Ubuntu i guess doesn’t matter in the end or is there a super duper lightweight linux available for ?
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