Thank you for the suggestions! Unfortunately looks like r/opensignups has been privated due to the strike but I will continue to look into it. For now, yifi and 1337x should be a good starting point. I just hope they have older content as well as the newest content.

Thank you! Do you have any recommendations for public trackers I should use and/or private trackers I should look into? I am only going to be torrenting movies and tv shows

Thank you for the extra info! One thing I have found missing from several of these guides is how to set up so that the torrenting runs behind a vpn. I want one because I really believe my ISP would cut off my access if they were to see me torrenting. I also saw that port-forwarding is a necessity for the vpn but I don’t really know why. You even seem to indicate that it is optional.

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for!

I’d prefer for it to be straightforward, I want the server to be local so that rules out any cloud offerings. Synology is a NAS right? Do you run your whole pirating server off its hardware?