In a third world country that doesn’t care much about individuals torrenting. All 4 ISP we have block Torrent sites but that is easily solved be changing DNS. However, the problem is that we have qouta in here. One gigabyte (home dsl) costs 1.5 pounds, 1 gigabyte on mobile data costs 50 pounds = 1$. You can see the different bundles that two famous ISPs provide which is basically the same in links below: https://eshop.vodafone.com.eg/en/internetServices/dsl/dsl-bundles
I don’t leech entirely but it takes forever to get ratios cuz I can’t port forward through my VPN.
Any good options other than renting out a dedicated VPS and setting that up as a VPN server?
There are seedboxes that start around USD $5 a month.
I have storage and speed, I just want an IP that isn’t mine, and I don’t want to have to maintain another box to do it.
Eventually I’ll rent out a vps and setup wireguard…
VPS/VPN and seedbox are not really the same thing. You don’t really have to maintain a seedbox. they’re managed rtorrent instances. Some of them, at the higher end, might be full VPS and support VPN but most of them only have at most a handful of installable addons which are again completely managed for you, especially at the lower end. The $9/month option here has wireguard support so if you’d really rather upload directly from your local connection because you’re sure you have the storage and the speed then that is an option, so go for it I guess.
But that’s really defeating the point of a seedbox anyway. Seems silly to me that you’d really want to do all that uploading and seeding across your local connection, but if that’s your goal, then I guess that’s your goal. I’m not trying to stand in your way, just trying to make sure everyone’s clear on understanding how a seedbox is supposed to work.