So… and this is probably debatable, the point of a dedicated seed box is that there are a metric-shitton of other seed boxes on the local network (at the datacenter).

I’d argue the point of self hosting is to be able to set it up however you please. It sounds like you know what to do to be safe.

I use Mulvad for general VPN duty, though I can’t personally speak to its torrent support/speed I do see many recommend it in combination with a wireguard supporting container image. Spin a few up and let us know which ones you like and why.

Currently using qBittorrent with Gluetun and Airvpn all in docker on my home server.

For a VPN I picked privateinternetaccess (PIA) because it has port forwarding and I got a deal on a 5 year subscription for a one-time payment of $75.

qBittorrent and Proton VPN has worked well for me

https://swizzin.ltd/

I am by no means an expert, but my current solution is a spare raspberry pi running a docker container with qBitTorrent+VPN that sits plugged into my router. I like to think of it as my first step towards getting my shit together to building a full ARR stack

I moved from mullvad to airvpn for that reason and its lovely with my *arr stack. Next level torrenting

There is no need fire up a dedicated machine to do this. Use your router/ap running openwrt and connect a hdd via usb. The machine needs at least 128 Mb RAM (256 mb would be better). Install the transmission package, set it up, add a gig of swap space on the hdd and you are good to go. The AP runs 24/7 anyways so there will be very few extra power consumption. Vpns often don't allow port forwarding (mullvad has stopped support recently if I remember correctly). You can just be a passive node and not often ports, that should work good enough. Consider seeding parts of sci-hub. it's a project worth supporting imho.

You can just download once of the parts below with less than 12 seeds and set it to host without ratio:

https://phillm.net/torrent-health-frontend/stats-filtered-table.php?propname%5B%5D=seeders&comp%5B%5D=%3C&value%5B%5D=12&propname%5B%5D=type&comp%5B%5D===&value%5B%5D=scimag

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I have PIA VPN + Transmission in docker and added my nas to the container via nfs. PIA is great because of port forwarding, however you cannot choose the port, so I made a little docker container which gets the port in PIA and sets it in transmission. It also stops the container if it disconnects, but that happens rarely. Also, all traffic from transmission goes through the PIA container. If you need more info you can dm me.