Here’s your full revised script with randomized staggered container startups over up to 5 minutes total.

Complete Script bash Copy Edit #!/bin/bash

======= Configuration ========

PORT_START=6909 PORT_END=6916 # 8 instances total (inclusive) VNC_PORT_INTERNAL=6901 VNC_PASSWORD="password" LAUNCH_URL="https://www.twitch.tv/illphated/" CONTAINER_IMAGE="kasmweb/tor-browser:1.16.0" CONTAINER_PREFIX="tor_instance"

MIN_RUNTIME_SEC=600 # 10 minutes before restart MAX_TOTAL_START_DELAY=300 # 5 minutes total for all containers to start

======= Utility Functions ========

log() { echo "[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] $1" }

start_containers_randomly() { local ports=() for ((port=PORT_START; port0; i--)); do j=$((RANDOM % (i+1))) tmp=${ports[i]} ports[i]=${ports[j]} ports[j]=$tmp done

local total_delay=0

for idx in "${!ports[@]}"; do
    local port=${ports[$idx]}
    local name="${CONTAINER_PREFIX}_${port}"

    # Calculate remaining time and containers left
    local containers_left=$(( ${#ports[@]} - idx ))
    local max_remaining_delay=$(( MAX_TOTAL_START_DELAY - total_delay ))

    # Random delay for this container
    local delay=0
    if (( containers_left > 1 )); then
        local max_delay_for_this=$(( max_remaining_delay / containers_left ))
        delay=$(( (RANDOM % (max_delay_for_this + 1)) + 10 ))  # Base delay of at least 10s
    fi

    total_delay=$(( total_delay + delay ))

    (
        sleep $total_delay
        log "Starting container $name on port $port after ${total_delay}s total delay..."
        docker run -d 
            --name "$name" 
            --shm-size=512m 
            -p $port:$VNC_PORT_INTERNAL 
            -e VNC_PW=$VNC_PASSWORD 
            -e LAUNCH_URL=$LAUNCH_URL 
            $CONTAINER_IMAGE
    ) &
done

wait  # Wait for all background processes
log "All containers launched over ${total_delay}s total delay."

}

cleanup_running_containers() { local containers=$(docker ps --filter "name=${CONTAINER_PREFIX}" -q) if [ -n "$containers" ]; then log "Stopping containers with prefix ${CONTAINER_PREFIX}..." docker stop $containers log "Removing containers..." docker rm $containers else log "No containers to stop." fi }

======= Main Loop ========

while true; do cleanup_running_containers sleep 10

log "Starting new set of containers with randomized staggered delays..."
start_containers_randomly

log "Sleeping for $((MIN_RUNTIME_SEC / 60)) minutes before restart..."
sleep $MIN_RUNTIME_SEC

done Features Recap: Randomized port order

Random staggered launches over 5 minutes max

10+ second minimum per-container delay to avoid instant starts

Cleans up containers before restarting the loop

How to Run: Save as tor_random_launcher.sh

Run:

bash Copy Edit chmod +x tor_random_launcher.sh ./tor_random_launcher.sh