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Looking for cheap VPS under $12/year for torrenting
forgottennoob
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Hi, i already have a VM setup with Arr stack and am looking for a cheap VPS to route through. Would like at least 500GB bandwidth/month. I have checked out https://lowend-deals.xbit.win/#ovz, but not sure which ones will not suspend my account due to DMCA strike or their ToS.
Looking for recommendations with VPS located in piracy lenient countries.
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https://ava.hosting/vps/vps-nano/
located in moldova and is 11 euros per year
max speed is 100mbps though but bandwidth is unlim
What is your minimum specs?
Any specific country?
If you want it to just torrent, why don’t you buy this which costs $25 for "lifetime”? (including the 15% off discount)
https://www.stacksocial.com/sales/fastestvpn-lifetime-subscription-10-user-access
They offer WireGuard configs.
They allow torrenting on basically all their servers, even US ones, and don't log. They use PureVPN servers and infrastructure, I’m pretty sure.
1 vCPU, 256gb RAM, 10gb storage, should more than suffice for a vpn server.
countries such as switzerland, spain, netherlands, bulgaria, romania
how legit is the vpn provider and stacksocial? havent heard of both of them. seems like a good offer, but will they last more than 2-3 years?
Edit1: Checked out stacksocial, seems like a legit site. But, i checked reviews for fastest vpn and other vpn providers on there. many recent reviews are complaining about the speed or servers not working.
Hence decided to self host the vpn instead. now need to find VPS
Pay with credit card legit.
Speeds were pretty fast for me on wireguard the last time i used their vpn since they use pure's infrastructure anyways. If you selfhost the vpn, make sure the provider allows public torrents.
I used to use Ivacy for torrents (also owned by PureVPN), but they got discontinued, and my lifetime subscription got migrated to PureVPN. Now I have a VPN that has port forwarding support on all servers and for a lifetime. The $100 I paid for IvacyVPN got transferred to PureVPN, and that subscription would cost around $5000 if you wanted to buy 100 years + port forwarding addon, so I guess that was a win for me. Most likely, when FastestVPN (if they do) reaches its EOL, they will migrate customers to PureVPN.
However, while I'd use these VPN's for public torrents, I'd use something else for privacy like Mullvad or Windscribe.
The site is legit but the products (quite a few) are very poor quality including FastestVPN, the VPNi mentioned above. Its mostly their client thats hot garbage, their servers are mostly alright which doesn't really matter since you'd be using their wireguard configs anyways.
FastestVPN is not PureVPN... They use a different back-end.
IP's are nowhere near the same, many stacksocial VPN's use the backend FastestVPN uses, I haven't been able to figure out which one that is yet, but it's not PureVPN.
The IP to connect to PureVPN in Belgium is: 154.47.27.71 which is Datacamp
Meanwhile FastestVPN has 2 servers, one for normal usage and one for streaming, both which use 193.9.114.210 M247 to connect to said servers.
Any review for FastestVPN?
Actually, I think I got it wrong and you're right. FastestVPN does not use the same infrastructure, but is owned by the same company as Pure.
Some VPNs, for example, IceVPN, are just fancy wrappers for Atom SDK (PureVPN whitelabel offering) to function, and think FastestVPN doesn't use that.
But still, they might move users to either their flagship vpn PureVPN or VPNUnlimited if they decide to discontinue.
Client apps are terrible, but mostly useable. I'd recommend just importing the wireguard configs into another client like Windscribe. Privacy wise I recommend using something else, but for torrenting, its alright. Speeds are fine too. Just remember to always bind your torrent client to the correct network interface.
Regarding the reason why I'd use something else for "privacy", their flagship VPN PureVPN was caught giving logs to the FBI a few years ago. They've since changed ownership to another company (though it seems there have been some scandals or whatever, i forgot), so its generally not advised to use those VPN's. They also own IvacyVPN, iProVPN, and a lot of other shit VPN's that use Atom SDK.
I'd say it's good enough, but they claimed to be audited at one point, and could never prove they were, they removed the claim not long after that when I kept asking for proof
They seem to have since put an audit report up on their site. But this was after they claimed it before! The audit report seems to be dated after that fact aswell, which, if the audit report is real, is also a concern.
According to Deepseek which I gave 2 audit reports, a vibe.us one and the FastestVPN one, both by the same auditing company Altius IT:
I'm not sure if they actually manage their own VPN infrastructure (due to my above comment). I'm not sure which other VPN used the same infrastructure, it's somewhere in my comment history. People like claiming it's PureVPN, but if it is PureVPN they have 2 different back-ends set-up for no reason.
What's your source for this? I haven't heard this before.
They've since started using rolling audits, or whatever they call it, an auditor can audit any time without prior notice, didn't really look too much into this either.