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Interesting, so I'm presuming there's several VPNs involved between the load-balancer and all the discrete servers. I wonder if they use a VPN provider with a static IP and no-logs policy or if it's simply yet another VPS.

I'd love to hear a little more about the architecture.

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If memory serves, I think TPB is somehow related to iPredator [1][2], though I'm not sure if that is the case anymore. This may give them _lots_ of experience running VPN software, which would be usable if that is indeed how they're communicating between VPS providers.

[1] https://www.ipredator.se/ [2] http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-announces-ipredator-globa...

Why would they use a VPN provider? It's trivial to set up your own if you control the systems at both ends.

Assuming at least one side isn't under a NAT, true. Otherwise it gets... "fun".

A NAT does not stop you if you do it right. Console games have been hosting servers through NATs for the last decade.

As I said: it gets "fun", especially if you want to do it without a third server to set up the connection. Still doable, just "fun".

I would speculate that the massive advertising revenue generated by the 'bay probably renders any such 'fun' factor trivial.

Why would you be under a NAT? A public IP and a networking allotment is one of the core offerings of almost every cloud provider out there.

To make the legal side effects "Somebody Else's Problem"? seeing as that's the service many VPN providers offer. Might save them having to get new load balancer VPS quite so often, making it that much harder and more time consuming to knock offline.

I don't know, that's why I'm asking though.

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