I obviously can keep it hosted on my home network because of iso and DMCA, but I also don’t feel the greatest when using a public VPN provider even if they have a no log policy or supposedly use ram for log storage. Is there a possible way to do this? Tia!
Ah yes, the monthly DIY VPN question.
If you can the answer is yes. If you should the answer is no. As often mentioned here you lose the benefit of shared IP addresses, multiple servers, security, speed and port-forwarding (unless you also configure it). Plus you’ll have your personal data directly tied to your account because VPS aren’t designed for anonymity.
If you still want to do it, at least go with https://njal.la/ or similar
No. DIY own VPN should only be used if its a corporate trusted network or accessing some stuff hosted by you. You want plausible deniability when torrenting with vpn, and thats not possible with DYI.
Why making yours own vpn if you can purchase it in very less price with some good features
Actually I think I’ve decided on Mullvad for a VPN. It appears to be much better for torrenting than anything else.
Ok thank you very much!
This isn’t a good strategy. You don’t want to use a VPS or a Cloud provider where the IP being used is yours and only yours.
You want a reputable VPN provider that shares the IP and doesn’t keep logs. Mullvad is such a provider.
Thank you so much for the quick reply! I will have to familiarize myself more with this field, but this looks to be exactly what I was interested in.
You don’t want to torrent using the IP of your VPS. That is bad practice. Use a VPN provider where the IP is shared with multiple users and no logs are kept.
ExpressVPN is another great choice
This is the very worst possible solution. The IP will be that of the vm hosted at Google and registered to an account with all your private information and source IP pointing to your ISP.
Welp. What would be better? I currently have Expression, but they’re not owned by a trustworthy company anymore.
ExpressVPN- no logs and complete anonymity. Also $3 a month
Still a bad strategy. You don’t want to use a provider that directly links to you.