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see below), and\n\n(2) By telling you which command(s) to run to stand up your relay.\n\nTODO(elimisteve): Say something about helping them choose which OS to\nuse if we indeed add this feature.\n\n\n#### How does \"Run A Relay\" decide which hosting providers to consider?\n\nBased on a number of factors:\n\n(1) The information crowdsourced by the Tor community onto\n[Tor's wiki](https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs),\nand\n\n(2) Which providers are already commonly used to run relays as\nmeasured by [Tor Metrics](https://metrics.torproject.org/).\n\n\n## Running \"Run A Relay\" Locally\n\n```\ngit clone http://github.com/EffectiveAF/run-a-relay\ncd run-a-relay\nnpm install\nnpm run dev\n```\n\nThen just visit [localhost:5000](http://localhost:5000/)!\n\n\n## Attribution\n\n- `public/img/External_link_font_awesome.svg`\n  - Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - https://fontawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome / CC BY-SA\n\n- `public/img/github_logo.svg`\n  - Github Logo by LOGO WINE - https://www.logo.wine/terms\n\n## Donate to Tor\n\nhttps://donate.torproject.org/\n\n\n## Who Built \"Run A Relay\"?\n\n* Steve Phillips / [@elimisteve](https://github.com/elimisteve), privacy activist and Founder of [EffectiveAF](https://effective.af/)\n  * Lead developer and hoster of [LeapChat](https://leapchat.org): end-to-end encrypted, ephemeral chat in the browser\n\n* Tim Sullivan / [@timsully](https://github.com/timsully), UI/human factors engineer at Splunk\n\nWe :heart: Tor!\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Feffectiveaf%2Frun-a-relay","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Feffectiveaf%2Frun-a-relay","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Feffectiveaf%2Frun-a-relay/lists"}