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A good reminder to Dockerize + VPN

https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn

put that on any cloud vm and you have peace of mind + good internet speed.

This doesn't make sense to me as actual seedbox hosting offers a way better value when you consider your storage & network egress costs. Most cloud vps will have limits that most people will consider low (unless you don't seed)

Depends on how much you're torrenting. GCP's smallest VPS is literally free, so you can get 20gb of storage + 42gb of egress for $5/mo.

If you torrent more than that, then a DigitalOcean box or something similar makes more sense. Above $15/mo, a real seedbox platform is better optimized for what torrenting needs; lots on storage and ingress/egress bandwidth. I'm a fan of Whatbox.

Or "just" use a Scaleway VM and pay €2.99/mo for unlimited egress

>2 x86 64bit Cores

>2GB Memory

>50GB SSD Disk

wow, how are they able to offer this for 3 euro/month?

Wouldn't a cloud provider hand out your data just as fast as an ISP, if someone comes with a court order? Or is it not so easy for the content industry's lawyers to get that data in the US?

All traffic is encrypted + goes through the VPN in a docker image with firewall configured to shutdown the moment the VPN disconnects.

The IP of the cloud VM is never exposed. Only the VPN's.

If you're worried about dropbox type surveillance, you store the data in an encrypted drive.

But couldn't ask the same question of the VPN that the grandparent post asked of the cloud provider? Namely, won't they turn your info over just as fast as an ISP?

1) The VPN's IP will be used by more than one person. (i.e a pool)

2) use a VPN that has a reputation for not keeping logs and turning people over.

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/

Why not just use a VPN then?

A cloud VM does seem overkill.

I haven't seen this project before but a few reasons come to mind at first glance

1) Looks like it also runs a headless Transmission client, so you could use it as a seedbox

2) It can be tricky to configure VPNs correctly so that if the VPN connection goes down, your traffic doesn't spill over onto the clearnet. If this Docker image ensures that aspect works correctly then that's helpful.

3) It's a little complicated to setup a VPN connection on a personal computer just for BitTorrent use, without having other traffic (e.g. browsing) spill over onto the VPN. Setting this all up on a segregated remote box and connecting to the headless Transmission client mitigates that.

Ah, I thought this was about running your own VPN server in the cloud!

This is awesome. I've been looking for a Docker project to play with, thanks for sharing.

One nice thing is that this image makes it easy to support various VPNs out of the box. Though mine (ProtonVPN) isn't supported, so I had to use CUSTOM and fiddle a bit.

I made a setup using Transmission + VPN and NZBget, automated via Sonarr (for series), Radarr (for movies), and a few other software such as Muximux (for abstraction) and Emby. You can find these and a lot of other interesting images under the linuxserver.io flag [1]. As soon as a specific series (episode) or movies on my watchlist is released in the wild (ie. leaked from scene) I will get it. Automagically. So the other day, I suddenly had Dunkirk available.

I also learned about this software via HN so I guess I'm giving back this way directly. Or parroting, depending on your PoV. smile

[1] https://hub.docker.com/search/?isAutomated=0&isOfficial=0&pa...

If you download torrents, the datacenter provider will forward copyright infringement notices to you, just like your normal home connection would. So it doesn't protect you much other than making it a bit harder for your tech savvy friends to use this website.

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