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 <h2>Configuring a server</h2>
 
 <p>We're looking for people with reasonably reliable Internet connections,
-that have at least 20 kilobytes/s each way. If you have more bandwidth
-to offer, that's even better.</p>
-
-<p>If your server is behind a NAT and it doesn't know its own IP (e.g.
-it has an IP of 192.168.x.y), then we can't use it as a server yet.
-(If you want to do dyndns DNS voodoo to get around this, feel free.) And
-if it frequently has a lot of packet loss or really high latency, we
-also can't handle it as a server yet. Otherwise, please help out!
+that have at least 20 kilobytes/s each way. If you frequently have a
+lot of packet loss or really high latency, we can't handle your server
+yet. Otherwise, please help out!
+</p>
+
+<p>Other things to note:
+<ul>
+<li>Tor has built-in support for rate limiting; see BandwidthRate
+and BandwidthBurst config options. Further, if you have
+lots of capacity but don't want to spend that many bytes per
+month, check out the Accounting and Hibernation features. See <a
+href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ">the FAQ</a>
+for details.</li>
+<li>It's fine if the server goes offline sometimes. The directories
+notice this quickly and stop advertising the server. Just try to make
+sure it's not too often, since connections through the server when it
+disconnects will break.</li>
+<li>We can handle servers with dynamic IPs just fine, as long as the
+server itself knows its IP. If your server is behind a NAT and it doesn't
+know its own IP (e.g. it has an IP of 192.168.x.y), then we can't use it
+as a server yet. (If you want to set your Address config option to dyndns
+DNS voodoo and port forward to get around this, feel free. If you write a
+howto, <a href="mailto:tor-volunteer@freehaven.net">even better</a>.)</li>
+<li>Your server will passively estimate and publish its recent capacity.
+Client paths are chosen weighted by this capacity, so high-bandwidth
+servers will attract more paths than low-bandwidth ones. That's why
+having even low-bandwidth servers is useful too.</li>
+</ul>
 </p>
 
 <p>To set up a Tor server, do the following steps after installing Tor.