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I used Mullvad for a long time, but hearing about one of the two CEOs actively supporting and financing swedish Nazis, I'm looking to put my money elsewhere. That's the second one after Private Internet Access (who supported Gab).

I had AirVPN and Surfshark being recomnended, how do people here feel? What do you use?

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm genuinely curious, what does running 5 instances of qbittorrent do that 1 instance doesn't?

[–] RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a valid question and I have 5 different answers. Lol. It all built out over the last 5 years.

I started with one instance and was raw-dogging the net but only using reputable private trackers (ie, teh cabal).
On GGn I was seeding about 20,000 torrents (bulk of this was Linux isos for older retro computers).
Every time ggn has stability issues (every fucking day), it would drag my entire torrent client down with it so I moved all my ggn torrents to their own instance to isolate that problem. That instance still struggled to handle so many torrents on such an unstable tracker so I split ggn across 2 instances.

Then I found some things on public trackers I wanted to download and seed, the full dump of Redtopia being one example. So I created another instance that was routed through a VPN via gluetun to use on public trackers.

And lastly I created one more instance to handle my porn stash.

So that's how I amassed 5 separate torrent clients on the same machine and more recently I moved to a different ISP who uses CGNAT and have decided that I am happy with cgnat and use a VPN that allows opening of ports to handle all my torrent clients.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Damn. I couldn't fathom a possible reason. It's obvious reading this it was because I wasn't thinking even close to your scale. Thanks for the reply!