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What VPN would you recommend for torrenting? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 months ago by open_door@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Cost, ease of use, speed, other good features, etc.

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[-] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 6 months ago

It isnt the best one, but its cheap, allows port forwarding and its not sketchy as far as we know

Air vpn

[-] Syakaizin@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

You may want to take a look at Italy's recent changes in legislation around VPNs tl;dr Italy's government has an anti-piracy measure called Piracy Shield which is a list that needs to be blocked by ISPs, VPN providers etc but is entirely arbitrary with no governance.

Air has stopped onboarding Italian customers but you may want to consider given they're based in Italy, if this compromises your use case/opsec

[-] atkion@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

+1 for airvpn. I've never had any issues, port forwarding works flawlessly, and you can get some incredible deals if you buy 3 years at a time during a sale.

[-] lemerchand@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

I've been using it for probably 5+ years and it's been great. I wish I could port forward to incoming 80 in my server so I could run a site while it's up, but at the end of the day I can always run a site elsewhere.

That aside, it's never gone down on me, the speeds are fast, it auto-connects to the best server available, and they run lots of promos.

[-] lemmylem@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I'm wondering, is there any anonymous VPN that supports port forwarding to port 80? I'm thinking about self-hosting a website from my server at home under a VPN.

[-] lemerchand@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

I haven't looked thoroughly because at the end of the day I have like ..another 2 years of airvpn credit and I'm happy enough with them that I could make a separate server for a website....maybe with the rock pi 5a I bought that I haven't touched. My current server is mostly for media and...uhh...sailing, as well as syncing devices (sync thing), running a telegram bot, etc. I could use the pi for more public stuff. And not use a VPN.

If you find a solution though, let me know!

[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

You can port forward to another port without issue, then just route through to it from your server. Domain name lookups support explicit port lists. Although I'd suggest just buying a domain name, setting up dynamic dns through a raspberry pi and forward from your router to port 80. I use porkbun for the latter.