I host my own VPN. All I need when I am out and about.
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
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When you torrent totally public domain stuff you most likely want a VPN with enough privacy to not give your IP to authorities. I can’t see that point if you run a VPN on a machine somewhere in the cloud which has your name registered to it.
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I use my home router as a VPN server.
I use IVPN, paid for with crypto over Tor. It’s been amazing so far, but to make things easier I’ve taken to deploying my own “proxy” to it in the cloud (I cache DNS among other things).
I’m surprised that no one mentioned IVPN
None, get a $5 vps and setup openvpn
AirVPN since about 8 years. Highly recommended. If you want something flashy that wins design awards looks elsewhere :) from a technical perspective they are absolutely top notch with every feature you could possibly wish for.
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I have several VPSes around the world each with OpenVPN.
I'm using Safeshell because it's highly secure and has excellent stability.
I use NordVPN, audited no-logs and they have static IPs to buy
ExpressVPN and I've got it running on my router, which makes things really simple for the rest of the network.
I self host, it's way more convenient (opinion) and I don't really care about anonymity. Also less expensive.
I host my own OpenVpn server in 2 different countries
Do you use a VPS for this? If not, how do you do it?
No VPS, all running on my home servers.
I have one server at home in country where I reside in, so if I want secure tunnel when for example on public wifi, I just connect to my home in this country
And second one is in my home country where my relative lets me keep my second low power server at their home, which I use if I need to bypass geoblocked content of my current country
I host my own VPN on a VPS. This way I am sure all the logging is truly disabled.
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Hmm, I use expressvpn but don’t see anyone here mentioning it. Is there something I should know about them?
I was thinking the same.
It might be a little pricey compared to the rest? It works very well for my use case and I've never been bottlenecked by the VPN which is nice.
Honestly, if you're happy with the service surfshark had been providing, why roll the dice and switch? Stick with what's making you happy.
What do people think of Mozilla VPN? That's what I use currently.