AirVPN as they have port forwarding and privacy prioritized
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2026
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Second for airVPN, their prices are good and were super easy to set up for torrent ports
if you're intending to seed with a decent upload bandwidth, you'll likely need a vpn with port-forwarding capability. there are fewer and fewer providers these days with that offered as a service, so make sure before you sign up.
AirVPN or Proton because they offer port forwarding. I use Air
Gluetun sidecar for the qbit container setup with paid Proton VPN and port forwarding
This is the way, although I use a different VPN.
Yeap, I was thinking about proton, but never heard about gluetun. Gonna search about it, thanks!
Gluetun isn't a VPN itself it just uses your VPN
I use a deluge image that’s got vpn support built in. Pick whatever you want, but make sure it’s configured to stop all torrent traffic if the vpn isn’t connected. You don’t want it to fallback to continue working but revealing your home IP.
neat!
I've been using windscribe for the past few years. Haven't seen any bad news about them yet, work good on android and PC, and I at least have been getting mine for just $30 a year. Totally recommend them .
I use qbittorrentvpn docker container by binhex I have pia VPN, but I'm sure theres better options now a days I got a really good deal on it so its paid for another 3 years or so
Renting a seedbox, syncing back to home with resilio
Icevpn has been good. Gibraltar based.
You don't get a VPN. You get a seed box. The seed box will likely have VPN capabilities if you want....
Wow, never heard of it. Thanks
Seed boxes are typically virtual private servers. Very much like a VPN (it's a proxy.) but they're on major backbones. You get incredible bandwidth. Most will let you put up web services. You get storage...
Many are just 5-10 bucks a month.
Definitely suggested over vanilla vpns.
thanks for the tip, I'll look around for it. The improve of speed is great, although not my main focus. My major concern is keep myself anonymous and not receive some legal takedown or something like that.
That's really the golden ticket there. With a seed box there's no chance your VPN fails (download stuff on the box directly, you'll have a secure shell and KVM). That can be a real problem with normal vpns if not configured properly (you need to force traffic through the VPN and reject on failure, while most default to a fail back and will expose your IP.)
If you have got enough local storage capacity then a regular vpn is still by far the cheapest option. Also if you only download from private trackers you might not even need a VPN, since ip trolls tend to stick to public trackers.
private trackers are something I haven't touched yet.
I’m a bit lazy tbh. I just use NextDNS (which likely does fuck-all). But, I’ve yet to receive any notice, and that’s all I’ve used for a long time.
That won’t hide your IP at all.
it does do a good job of filtering out ads and trackers, though
but yeah, might wanna get something that protects your IP too
It doesn’t shield your IP but it’s sick for ad blocking in and out of the house.
Oh yeah it’s great for ads. I love never seeing any. I get confused now when people talk about them lol