The original post: /r/seedboxes by /u/ashan93 on 2025-03-22 23:41:30.

I am moving a large portion of my downloading set up to a VPS. Currently everything is downloading to a sever I built locally which uses the arrs and qbitorrent behind a vpn. I only use private trackers.

This part of thr set up I want to move externally to a VPS.

My understanding is that if I download directly on the VPS, I am still exposing myself and also run the risk of having thr vps terminated if they recieve a DMC or something.

I was thinking about replicating my same set up where the VPS uses qbitorrent, but that is behind a VPN.

Does anyone attempt this or have any general thoughts?

I want to use the VPS for things other than downloading, which is why I went down this route instead of a seedbox.

Also if I needed to “race” for ratio, not that I need to do that as much any more, will having a vpn and vps combo slowing me down a lot (say the VPN and vps were set the to the same location, nederlands as an example).

Cheers!