I am running a Tor relay on a remote server that is hosted in a professional server farm about 1000 km away from my home. I am absolutely sure, that this Tor relay is secure because I am root on this server (which is a virtual root server), because I did install the Tor relay, and because there is no other user on that machine than me.

There are many scenarios for attacks against anonymity of Tor users, and many of them include a modified software running a Tor relay that records traffic of this node and compares it with traffic from other nodes.

So I think I could lower the risk of being victim of such an attack by telling my local Tor browser to use my own Tor relay as my entry point.

**Here are my questions:**

1. Is it true that I can avoid some attack scenarios with my strategy without being target for new ones? Even if my server is a virtual root-server in a remote server farm?
2. Where can I find the settings to tell my local Tor Browser Bundle to always use only the IP-address of my own relay as entry point?