I am generally a pretty low-key user once I have everything set up (for example, support ticket to manually enable TUN/TAP manually if the panel option doesn't do it).
What the VPS will be used for:
- Private seedbox (private tracker only and the downloaded files are also hidden from public access)
- Private VPN
- Personal file storage (if I need to upload stuff when I'm away from home and it's too large or inconvenient to email)
Budget: Obviously as low as possible, but $15 or less.
Specs: (OpenVZ is fine)
Location - Preferably, OVH FR so that most of the traffic is internal to their network, but I'm open to other locations.
HDD size - 200GB+
RAM - 1GB+
BW - 1-5TB (2TB or 3TB just to give myself a huge margin, but I have never broken 2TB, afaik)
Line - 100Mbit+
In the past couple years of having a seedbox, I have never had even the whisper of a DMCA takedown notice.
I previously had a seedbox that worked well for quite a while with great stats and at a great price (4GB RAM/300GB HDD/80TB BW/1Gbit for $16/month!), but recently had a falling out with the hosting company (it's a long story involving the support desk being run by sketchy kids and making things up because they couldn't actually do stuff), so the support desk cancelled my server.
I have kept an eye on my current seedbox resource usage for a while. Load and CPU usage are usually minimal (though load does increase initially when allocating space for a torrent) and RAM usage is usually <50MB (and consistently < 200MB). The total monthly bandwidth in my control panel is not accurate (shows just a couple GB), but I'm 100% confident that it's less than 3TB (and I'm pretty sure that it is actually below 1TB).
I was interested in this Kimsufi promo, but they want copies of ID and bills, which is not something I ever do (but if someone wants to just buy and resell it to me at a decent price, I'd definitely consider it :P): http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/bons_plans/index.xml
Also was interested in MKS2G ( http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/ ), but same thing.
I have come across a some posts mentioning 3 or 4 hosts here that have more of a laissez-faire policy when it comes to torrents, but thought I would throw this out there in case any other hosts is interested.
I am not interested in turning this into a discussion of what people download or from where. Among other things, I download TV shows because I'm rarely home and CBF to record them. I also do end up buying stuff that I find is good after downloading it. I'm just looking for someone that wants to take my (easy) money and provide me with an agreed-upon service.