The two relays I operated have gone kablooie from the internet.

I had been contemplating shutting them down because the vast majority of the traffic seems to be scrapers, and I can't afford to run a VPS to serve useless noise.

In the process of moving the data to another, smaller VPS, I accidentally deleted the files, and there's no backup. So much for that plan!

I don't think I'll run another relay. Altruism isn't appreciated -- people just want a place to spam and/or hoover up all the data.

Unfortunately, the scrapers continue to hammer the server, trying to connect. They seem not smart enough to give up on a relay that isn't responding. I hope they eventually do.