Hi,
In short: will I run the risk of receiving an angry Hetzner e-mail telling me to stop downloading torrents when I configer my local deluge client to connect through a local gluetun VPN client to a selfhosted wireguard vpn on a hetzner server? I have limited knowledge of VPNs but as far as I understand it the connection provided through gluetun from client to server (vpn) is safe, encrypted, private (somewhat) But connections from the (vpn) server to the public tracker is not, right? Or does the vpn tunnel extend to the destination?
Context:
I am running a deluge torrent client to download and seed torrents coming from radarr and sonarr its all running containerized through docker on my local machine.
The Deluge client is using a VPN connection (via Windscribe) through a gluetun vpn client. `https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun.
I am not very happy with the speeds of Windscribe and I have small Hetzner server running with a wireguard vpn container I got working, that I hope should provide a faster download/upload speed.
Hetzner is pretty strict when it comes to downloading torrents from public trackers. A couple of years ago I basically had my plex server and a deluge client running on one of their servers. At first I used only private trackers but some content was not available so I added some torrents from public trackers. A couple of days after I got an angry e-mail from viacom through hetzner telling to quit it.
Does anyone self host their VPN and on what? And do you use it for downloading?
Using a VPN to connect to your own server for torrenting does not make sense, because that may not be ‘your’ IP address the traffic originates from, but it is still linked to you as you pay for the server. If you use a VPN from mullvad or something else it cannot (easliy) be tracked back to you directly. (It can, but to the outside there is just a lot of traffic comming from a single source IP, and it is not just your traffic but from a dozen other users. That’s the point of using a VPN provider)
Thank you all for giving honest advice, I will stick with what I have, Gluetun and Windscribe.
Not good for public, use private trackers
True, I had a separate client for private tracker torrents it worked well no angry e-mails. However some torrents like non english movies/shows are not on the private tracker I have, and are very short-lived on public trackers, if you have any recommendations where I can apply let me know.
Hetzner is no joke company. They will find out pretty quick that you are torrenting via a hetzner server. They will also see all of your traffic and of course they have detection algorithms for stuff like that haha. Just get a normal VPN like ProtonVPN or something
Why though? I got PIA for under 3 bucks a month and it saturates my Gbit connection. Don’t re invent the wheel man lol.
