Just making sure I’m not missing something obvious:

Self-hosted Linux VM with protonVPN and QBitorrent installed on it.

QBittorrent networking bound only to ProtonVPN’s virtual interface with killswitch and secure core enabled.

Auto updates enabled and a scripted alert system if ProtonVPN dies. Obviously everything with very secure unique passwords.

Is this a safe setup to run 24/7 to torrent and seed with?

Are there any significant risks I’m missing? Thanks, fellow sea salts!

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Why would you need file encryption?
      Not like having a drive full of movies is illegal…Except if OP has CSAM stuff inside. Than it should be very encrypted in case of loosing (or not depending if OP wants jail time).

      • spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        Except if OP has CSAM stuff inside. Than it should be very encrypted

        then OP SHOULD go to jail.

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Not like I don’t agree. Those vile people should.
          But something like that or actually confidential stuff you don’t want others to see is a valid reason to encrypt it.

          • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Holy shit yeah lol. Obviously nothing like that! I was confused as well why anything other than the generic Linux full disk encryption would be needed.

            This would be in a server closet, so not on drives that I would be transporting copyrighted media into other countries anyways.

  • DetachablePianist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I can’t speak to the paid ProtonVPN service, but their free tier doesn’t allow torrenting. They’ll disconnect you with a slap on the wrist error about it.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I found that out the hard way lol. Was just a soft warning. Premium tier allows P2P traffic and actually provides torrent-optimized servers too.

  • lessthanthree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’m trying to recreate this setup in my system. I’m running Ubuntu and I have everything in Docker. I have PIA running outside of Docker. I was also able to get Gluetun working in its own container, too. Does anyone have advice?