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So who is this article aimed at? If you intend to torrent, you're not going to roll your own on a VPS that is going to forward DMCA notices right back to you. D
by extr 10y ago
So who is this article aimed at? If you intend to torrent, you're not going to roll your own on a VPS that is going to forward DMCA notices right back to you. DO and AWS are not cool with operating as high-transfer seedboxes and will be fairly expensive. If you're trying to remain hidden from a nation-state level actor you're obviously not going to use a VPS, but you also have bigger problems than HideMyAss accidentally leaking your ipv6 address. If you're like most people and don't want to pay $$$ a month for a VPS but want to torrent a bit, you just want a straight up regular VPN recommendation which they never provide. "Choosing a VPN is hard", yeah no shit, that's why I was hoping you would provide some value by doing the work for me.
I was in the market recently and ended up going with iVPN for $100/year. Their "18 questions to ask your vpn provider" [1] page is basically a more practical version of this article. Not that I am going to use it, but they also have guides showing you how to created nested and branched chains of tor/pfsense vm clients across countries, if you really did want to hide traffic from a nation state. If putting your trust into a VPN is the issue it's much easier to trust someone that links directly to security forums and openvpn documentation.
[1] https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/18-questions-to-ask-your-vpn-service-provider https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/18-questions-to-ask-your...
- thaumasiotes 10y ago> If you intend to torrent, you're not going to roll your own on a VPS that is going to forward DMCA notices right back to you. I've done this very thing. I wasn't trying to avoid DMCA notices; I was working around the great firewall of China, which blocks torrents normally.
- ryanlol 10y ago>you're not going to roll your own on a VPS that is going to forward DMCA notices right back to you Why not? >DO and AWS are not cool with operating as high-transfer seedboxes and will be fairly expensive DO and AWS are certainly the last providers you'd want to use for anything high-transfer. Why would you even consider them over, say, OVH?