# Tor Snowflake Proxy

Tor Snowflake Proxy is a self-hosted network services app. Snowflake is a system to defeat internet censorship. It is open source and self-hosted, installable on Proxmox, Umbrel and Docker Hub.

Canonical page: https://ourlocalhost.com/app/3680/tor-snowflake-proxy

## Description

Snowflake is a system to defeat internet censorship. People who are censored can use Snowflake to access the internet. Their connection goes through Snowflake proxies, which are run by volunteers. If your internet access is not censored, you should consider running a Snowflake proxy to help users in censored networks. There is no need to worry about which websites people are accessing through your proxy. Their visible browsing IP address will match their Tor exit node, not yours.

## Platform availability

Available on 2 of 9 platforms: Umbrel, Proxmox.

## Health score

68/100 (Good), based on 4 of 4 factors.
- Maintained: 100 (last commit 15 days ago)
- Popular: 20 (9 GitHub stars)
- Easy to install: 45 (2 install platforms, install notes, Docker image)
- Light to run: 95 (512 MB minimum RAM, runs on ARM)

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/syphyr/snowflake
- Documentation: https://spec.torproject.org
- Proxmox: https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=tor-snowflake
- Official website: https://snowflake.torproject.org/
- Umbrel: https://apps.umbrel.com/app/snowflake
- Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/thetorproject/snowflake-proxy

## Common questions

### What does the automated Linux installer do?

It downloads and builds the source, creates a nologin user, installs the service file, and starts the service.

### Does a Snowflake proxy directly proxy users’ website traffic?

It only provides a connection to a Tor entry node, after which normal onion routing applies.

### What happens if a censor blocks my Snowflake proxy IP?

The censored user can request a new Snowflake and connect again to the Tor network.

### What throughput have users reported from Dockerized Snowflake proxies?

One forum user reports running about 30 Docker containers, with each proxy getting about 360–400 connections per hour and relaying an average of 1GB per hour.

### Is there a standalone Snowflake setup guide?

Tor Project has a guide for setting up a standalone Snowflake proxy to help censored users connect to Tor.

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