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Isn't the best simply running your own for $5 on DO?
by homero 10y ago
Isn't the best simply running your own for $5 on DO?
- mrrsm 10y agoIt is probably very dependent on the reasons you are using the VPN as well as who you trust to keep whatever data you are transmitting safe.
- wyager 10y agoNot if you want privacy or to access content disallowed by DO (torrents).
- api 10y agoAFAIK OVH, Vultr, and several other a la carte VPS/VM providers allow torrents.
- 7ewis 10y agoWould you recommend OVH or Vultr? I've always been a bit suspicious of OVH, not sure why...
- barlo 10y agoI've use both; I have several dedicated servers with OVH in their BHS datacenter and several instances with Vultr in their NJ datacenter. Both are great for the price, although support can sometimes be lacking. OVH also has two cheaper brands for dedicated servers to checkout - SoYouStart and Kimsufi. The two cheaper brands have much more limited support.
- jamesmontour 10y agoIt really boils down to trust, honestly. What VPN you wind up going with greatly depends on the ethics, availability, and reliability of the provider, among other things. Sure, you can always run your own, but that is still ultimately going over someone else's network at some point during transit, plus you still have to be able to trust their ethics and consider any potential disallowed content. From a reliability/availability standpoint you'd be better off getting a VPN service, just have to do some thorough research and/or peruse the great list maintained on thatoneprivacysite.net Edit: words.
- phn 10y agoWell, if you just want to be anonymous, no. That ip/machine is associated to your person through whatever method you used to pay Digital Ocean.
- expression 10y agoAnd if anonymity is of no concern, why not run OpenVPN on Raspberry Pi (or something similar) at home? Cheap to set up, and no running costs (assuming internet access at home).
- falcolas 10y agoNot all wifi points allow VPN traffic. At various coffee shops, I've had both OpenVPN and Cisco Any Connect traffic outright blocked. Getting around such blocks (such as with a SSL tunnel) is possible, but requires more than just a default install. Also, setting up anything other than OpenVPN is a real pain in the arse. Even OpenVPN required a fair bit of Googling to make it fully functional.
- greggman 10y agoHow about an https tunnel? or an ssh tunnel on port 443?
- xufi 10y agoThat's interesting. Maybe thats why my VPN worked at a Starbucks down the street but not one in another city I was in. I wonder if this is the same for airports too. I would assume it would be easier to use a VPN if youre in a smaller airport rather than a big national one because of the amount of security however i havent looked in to this
- h4waii 10y agoI've found the most success with getting passed captive portals on non-free "Free WiFi" is simply OpenVPN over dns/53. It works a lot of the time and sometimes conveniently bypasses throttling/QoS.
- United857 10y agoLots of sites (e.g. Stack Overflow) block IP ranges of cloud providers.
- anonova 10y agoThe worst problem I've had running a VPN on a VPS is that Google tends to think you're a bot and makes you enter captcha every search query.