I’m looking for a cloud provider with a cheap VPS offer to host my own wireguard relay and use it to seed.

I’ve read that Switzerland is safe for torrenting, so I was thinking about using Infomaniak. Does anyone has experience with seeding torrents from their IP addresses ? I’m also interested in other suggestions.

Thank you :)

  • tuhriel@infosec.pubEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Just a heads up about switzerland:

    • downloading movies and music is not illegal, but
    • uploading is
    • also download and upload of copyrighted software is illegal
          • Jack Sparrow@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            5 days ago

            Long story short, in a limited way.

            If you look at the protocols available, there are two, BT and μTP.

            BT needs one of two peers to have a port open to connect to, either they initiate the connection, or you initiate connection. So if you want to download Arch Linux 2024.12.01(magnet:?xt=urn:btih:265863cbbb5ed9ef39e7c891ebebdf1623b09d5e&dn=archlinux-2024.12.01-x86_64.iso), you’ll need to either connect to a seeder that has a port open, or if you have a port open the seeder can connect to you.

            μTP can solve this by performing NAT traversal using UDP hole punching. The way this works is a third peer with open ports will relay information for both peers with closed ports to connect to each other.

  • nickiam2@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    7 days ago

    As others have pointed out, just get a VPN and run your torrents through that. I’ve used AirVPN and ProtonVPN. Both are P2P friendly and even offer inbound port forwarding. It would be easier to setup and likely cheaper too. Proton is incorporated in Switzerland and has servers all over the world.

    • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.frOPEnglish
      11·
      7 days ago

      This does not answer the question I asked. I’ve already considered a commercial VPN and I’ve ruled it out (clearly not cheaper, unless you can find a decent VPN with port forwarding that costs less than 2€/month)

      • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I wouldn’t recommend edis, they are great if you are looking for lesser known countries to hosr something. They are shit in everything else, namedly prices, low-bandwidth (1 tb is nothing if you are planning to torrent), bad support.

        Switzerland isn’t great when it comes to piracy, Romania, Moldova, Luxemburge, France, Canada are better. You can get cheap vps that won’t care on buyvm or alexhost.