Hi people! I have been pirating for myself for over 30 years now, and with the ever growing size of warez and the laughable upstream limit my ISP has, i have come to the point where it's not practical to maintain a 1:1 ratio for all torrents anymore - my active torrent list keeps growing beyond practical limits, and i'm someone who wants to keep sharing things for the people after me, esp. torrents with low amounts of seeds.

I'm pretty sure that i know more than i think i do, but i would be happy about a few pointers to get started with a seedbox. i have beginner linux skills, advanced user skills, and not shy of reading manuals on how to get things to work. i have not tinkered with docker much yet, but i'm willing to learn.

Edit: From what i've learned and seen i tend towards an dedicated server since i might want to host other services for myself too, so suggestions for what hoster to look at are welcome!

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[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm interested in the VPN you use

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A few good ones are AirVPN, ProtonVPN, Njalla, ~~IVPN~~.

[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I didn't think most of them allow port-forwarding

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Proton for sure does allow port forwarding

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

2 of those def do port forwarding (airvpn & proton) dunno about the other 2

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You're right, IVPN does not support port forwarding. The other three do.

Edit: IVPN seems to have removed port forwarding at the same time Mullvad did.

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

protonvpn does portforward, i am currently using it that way

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

https://www.ovpn.com/en

BUT, I'm not sure how well it works.... While rutorrent says port forwarding is working, and It seems to be from my tests.... Checking randomly the only peers I see that connect to me also have ovpn IPs so I'm not sure if I'm actually accessible or not.

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use protonvpn, which has a very nice windows client and a not so nice, but functional Linux client (don't know about MacOS). Port forwarding works either way, and you have the option of using wireguard or OpenVPN. Their website has a lot of tutorials.

I liked mullvad too, and they are cheaper, but I switched a few months ago because I got a deal for protonvpn and wanted to check out if port forwarding makes any difference for getting my share ratio back in order (and with a seedbox already in mind)

[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can seed public torrents with Proton? I thought they did something to curb that a few years back.

What is your opinion on Windscribe and PIA?

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I don't have any opinion on them regarding their performance. with proton there exist case files which show that they do not keep logs when not court ordered to do so (in the case i know about, they had to be court ordered to activate logs for login attempts to a specific mailbox). I haven't heard anything bad about Mullvad either.

Windscribe seems to be fine, but they had at least one big misstep where a private key for OpenVPN was saved locally on a server that then was seized by authorities. PIA, on the other hand, had no issues hiring a criminally convicted CTO and merged with Kape Technologies, which was in the business of creating browser toolbars containing potientially unwanted programs.They have been audited in 2022 tho, so maybe they are alright now..

[–] irmadlad@lemmyis.fun 1 points 1 week ago

I've been using PIA for many years now, and I find it quite capable. I don't torrent, or self host the arr stack, but PIA is quite capable. There are quite a few court cases where the logs issue has been laid to rest. PIA has proven itself not to keep logs. They aren't the only ones tho. Apparently, PIA runs it's services in RAM. Make sure you set it up correctly. Always do a DNS Leaktest before you download any cool, new, Linux ISOs. Make use of the multi-hop socks proxy feature.