Before continuing, check the chosen hosting provider Terms of Service before running Tor on their infrastructure.

It's recommended to run this separate to production although it's not heavy in resources (RAM, CPU)

NOTE: Any IPs associated with Tor will be easily 'blacklisted', remember they are publically available here - this can have detrimental effects if you are serving mail through the same IP.

Software:

Monitor bandwidth through - nyx

Cap bandwidth to prevent any nasty fees - Tor



Over to the terminal, please.

Login using the chosen terminal

echo -e "deb https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org bionic main

deb-src https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org bionic main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tor.list

wget -qO- https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89.asc | gpg --import gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | apt-key add

Now all has gone to plan, "OK" will appear

Showing "OK"

apt update && apt -y upgrade && apt-get -y install tor nyx python3-distutils

This will update the full system, shouldn't take too long..

Shouldn't be too long now

nano /etc/tor/torrc

SocksPort 0 ControlPort 9051 CookieAuthentication 1 ORPort 9001 AccountingMax 950GB AccountingStart month 1 00:00 Nickname MyFirstTorRelay ContactInfo FirstName LastName <Email>

SocksPort - Tor operates on SOCKS - this will enable default port

- Tor operates on SOCKS - this will enable default port ControlPort - Internal control port

- Internal control port CookieAuthentication - Enables cookie authentication for nyx

- Enables cookie authentication for nyx ORPort - External port for Tor

- External port for Tor AccountingMax - The total transfer within the month

- The total transfer within the month AccountingStart - Bandwidth reset date

- Bandwidth reset date Nickname - Identifiable nickname

- Identifiable nickname ContactInfo - Firstname Lastname <Email>



I'd recommend a email from protonmail.com - Please don't enter your real names.

The lazy way. No one knows, right?!

Exit and Save: CTRL + x + y | ENTER

Change YOURIP to your client IP, not your server IP. Proceed, press Y and Enter.

ufw default deny incoming && ufw allow from YOUR_IP to any port 22 && ufw allow 9001 && ufw enable y Firewall rules - Change YOUR_IP

systemctl enable tor && systemctl start tor.service

chmod 755 /run/tor/control.authcookie

Execute - nyx - not as root.

nyx

Possible issues:

"Unable to connect to tor. Maybe it's running without a ControlPort?"

systemctl restart tor.service

Wait a few seconds for Tor to close connections, then run:

chmod 755 /run/tor/control.authcookie

Good work! Give it a few days before Tor puts you in motion.

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