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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[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 10 points 17 hours ago (13 children)

If you're paying for a seedbox you can either get a vps (Linux VM) and do it yourself or just pay for the rutorrent web interface. I use to use dediseedbox.com awhile ago and had no complaints. My suggestion is to just have whatever provider host it so you don't have to use docker or anything.

If you want to do it yourself, then docker is the way to go and you should probably get a VPN on top of that so your traffic is mixed with other people. A dedicated server or VPS means you get your own IP and it can be linked to you.

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago (12 children)

thanks for the info! I'm already covered on the VPN front incl port forwarding at least, opsec is a thing for me since the music industry started sending out love letters to napster users in europe :-)

i'd rather do it myself, since i want to learn as much as possible, including setting up an -arr stack. what hoster is performant and not too expensive?

[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I'm interested in the VPN you use

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours 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 1 points 5 hours ago

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?

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago

Proton for sure does allow port forwarding

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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 13 hours ago

protonvpn does portforward, i am currently using it that way

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours 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.

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