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!
That's more secure than most setups, the VPN with killswitch will defeat any and all attacks you're likely to encounter if you don't open files on that same VM.
FDE is for physical attackers, it would have nothing to do with torrenting unless you're really intending on pissing off every single criminal legal authority and not just worried about civil suits from copyright holders.
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).Except if OP has CSAM stuff inside. Than it should be very encrypted
then OP SHOULD go to jail.
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.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.
That's very similar to what I run and I've never had any problems.
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.
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.
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?
