So I set up a personal vpn on a droplet on digitalocean for piracy. However, I seem to have set it up on a server in singapore, which seems to have strict copyright laws. Should I migrate the droplet onto the London or Frankfurt servers instead? (I live in the EU).
Digital ocean will have your payment information so they know who you are. They will see the torrents going into the server and encrypted traffic of the same size and time going to your home IP. Your torrents will be tracked back to you. It doesn’t matter where the server is located the traffic routes to you.
Just pay $1 more per month for a real VPN and be properly protected.
Why don’t you move it off digitalocean entirely? None of the places you’ve mentioned have very lax copyright enforcement.
My own country is very lax on copyright laws, but since things have been getting stricter here I want to use a VPN just in case.
What kind of setup would you recommend?
Germany tracks torrents by lawyer agencies. So no Frankfurt.
if you have access to crypto, paying for a VPS with Monero can make it difficult to trace. If you want to be extra paranoid, jump through a VPN provider (Mullvad, proton, Nord, AirVPN, etc) first then come out your VPS. VPN provider only sees you connecting to the VPS, since you don’t seem to trust them, and then the VPS handles where your traffic is going.
If you just want ease of use and you’re not doing sharing stuff out, a regular VPN from a VPN provider is more than sufficient and can be better given the wider range of places than just a singular VPS you can come out of.
