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Is there a service to rent these?
by bloqs 2y ago
Is there a service to rent these?
- veqq 2y agoHow much would you pay for that - compared to existing VPN solutions? You can find cloud hosts or server rentals in Bosnia, Colombia or wherever fairly easily.
- amatecha 2y agoYou can technically just get any ol' VPS and install the respective/relevant software on it. Just check that the VPS provider doesn't forbid torrenting/etc. in their ToS, I guess :)
- Ray20 2y ago>Just check that the VPS provider doesn't forbid torrenting/etc. in their ToS They almost always do. But many of them forbid only in tos, and not exactly do something about it
- giobox 2y agoI used to do this, but virtually all streaming sites etc block VPS IP ranges now. The beauty of OPs idea is that you get a nice domestic IP instead of one belonging to AWS/GCP/etc. I've also resorted to putting tailscale exit nodes in foreign relatives homes with Pis in the past. There are enough weird issues with pretending to be a domestic internet connection from a VPS IP that I've given up trying.
- fragmede 2y agoA service like that would be worth a premiumize amount
- kridsdale3 2y agoISWYDT
- everforward 2y agoThis sounds similar to a seedbox, a server rented to do piracy so DMCA complaints and such are sent to your seedbox provider instead of you. The seedbox providers are typically headquartered somewhere where they can just burn DMCA notices. The servers themselves are also often located in piracy friendly jurisdictions (the Netherlands used to be common, not sure what’s current). They usually come pre-installed with a remotely accessible torrent client like Deluge, Transmission, etc. Also often includes other software like VPNs, Plex, etc. You should be relatively safe using one. The server does all the torrenting, you just download the files over FTP so you never appear in the swarm directly. It’s also a huge pain in the ass for law enforcement because it becomes international quickly. You’re in country X, the server with its IP in the swarm is in country Y, and the company that has the rental agreement with the data center for the server is in country Z. Anecdotally, I used to spend some time in the space and I can’t recall a seed box provider ever getting raided. I think they just generally don’t bother with folks technical enough to go that far; there are easier fish to fry.
- princevegeta89 2y agoAre these guaranteed to be permanently online? Do they come with root access if we end up renting one?
- lyu07282 2y agoDepends on the seedbox most will give you root/ssh, others just give you a APi/web interface to a managed torrent client which can be convenient. Check r/seedboxes
- princevegeta89 2y agothanks! this sounds interesting
- everforward 2y agoThey’re guaranteed to be permanently online as much as such a thing can be for $20/month or whatever. They don’t shut it down if you’re not using it, if that’s what you’re asking but they do occasionally come down for upgrades/migrations/incidents/etc. I’d ballpark most providers in the 99% uptime range. Some provide root, some don’t. Last I checked, you’ll pay more for root because most of the servers are physical so you have to rent a whole server basically. The servers are typically IO bound on the NIC so they aren’t super picky about what you do with CPU and memory. They won’t let you run a crypto miner or do heavily parallel transcoding, but if you want to chuck a Python+SQLite web app on there I doubt they’d care.
- sulandor 2y ago"residential proxy" providing such a service (-network) is a popular monetization option for all kinds of useless crapware. this is very useful, but even more shady than regular vpn providers.