How do you pay the VPS Provider? The Cops can simply go to the VPS Provider and ask what Bank account or paypal is linked to the Account who runs the Server with the IP address they tracked. And what if the VPS Provider is logging your traffic? They can Monitor anything that leaves your VPS (their network) because a VPS is just a Virtual Machine like KVM thats why its called VPS = VIRTUAL Private Server. OPSEC my friend… I think you are safer if you just use Mullvad and pay with XMR and only access the mullvad site from Tor. (I know i am paranoid xD)
Yea in your country maybe… But here in Germany for example its a real problem at least if you share (upload, seeding) you can get into searious trouble for piracy and if they get you, you need to pay a lot of money as penalty. And i know how they run their VPNs i was just suggesting mullvad because the past has shown that they actually dont log or store user data (The Swedish Police raided their offices and found nothing and left). Thats why i think mullvad is better for anonymity than a self hostet VPN on a VPS.