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You can technically just get any ol' VPS and install the respective/relevant software on it. Just check that the VPS provider doesn't forbid torrenting/etc. in their ToS, I guess :)


I used to do this, but virtually all streaming sites etc block VPS IP ranges now. The beauty of OPs idea is that you get a nice domestic IP instead of one belonging to AWS/GCP/etc.

I've also resorted to putting tailscale exit nodes in foreign relatives homes with Pis in the past.

There are enough weird issues with pretending to be a domestic internet connection from a VPS IP that I've given up trying.


>Just check that the VPS provider doesn't forbid torrenting/etc. in their ToS They almost always do. But many of them forbid only in tos, and not exactly do something about it




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