<p> Before we start, you will need a Debian VPS (you can get one on digitalocean for example), if you prefer to use your own self hosted server, make sure that port 80 and 443 are correctly port forwarded so that the public ip points to the server and not the router. Once that's done, go and ssh into your Debian server. </p>
<p>Now regarding the choice of location for the server, in order to make sure that Tor remains decentralised, make sure that you are picking a country that doesn't have many tor nodes (see the <ahref="https://metrics.torproject.org/bubbles.html#country">bubbles graph</a>):</p>
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<p><u>Disclaimer:</u><b>Do not host your Tor node in Germany, Netherlands or in the US, as there are already too many nodes in those countries.</b> Try to run your own Tor nodes in countries that have the least nodes preferably, as this will help keeping the Tor network decentralized.</p>
# Pick a nickname that you like for your bridge. This is optional.
Nickname Nihilist
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<p>Then restart the tor service + enable it:</p>
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systemctl restart tor@default
#Enable at boot
systemctl enable --now tor@default
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<h2><b>Nyx monitoring</b></h2></br></br>
<p>Once it finished installing, you can monitor your tor bridge node activity with nyx:</p>
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<h2><b>Using your own bridge</b></h2></br></br>
<p>Next install tor-browser (in arch linux you can do it from the AUR), if not just go to the <ahref="https://www.torproject.org/download/">downloads</a> page.</p>
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<p>Then Launch it, and go in your preferences:</p>
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<p>Here specifying your own bridge is not that simple, you need to use the following syntax:</p>
<p>Just hit right arrow 3 times to get to your torrc config preview:</p>
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<p>And here we have port <b>8042</b>. Next we need the fingerprint which is at page 1 of nyx, so press leftarrow to get back to page 1 and then scroll down using the downarrow:</p>
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<p>Here it is <b>829165B21621041E7A9CDF7192AFFC51CA640B0E</b>, be careful not to copy the other one above which is the HASHED identity key. Here we want the original identity key fingerprint.
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