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This seems a bit pointless to me. If your aim is to hide your traffic from third-party networks you might be on (free wifi, school, hotels, etc) then a yearly
by suprjami 10y ago
This seems a bit pointless to me.
If your aim is to hide your traffic from third-party networks you might be on (free wifi, school, hotels, etc) then a yearly VPN subscription is almost certainly cheaper than the cheapest DigitalOcean droplet. If you get a good provider (I use PIA but am not affiliated with them) then you get unlimited traffic, multiple clients, endpoints all over the world, tech support, all without having to setup and administer the server yourself.
If your aim is to disassociate traffic with yourself, your DigitalOcean IP will be tied back to you anyway.
If your aim is to stop government snooping, DigitalOcean is hosted in the USA so you may as well just send the NSA your browsing history.
- withzombies 10y agoI trust Digital Ocean much more than I trust PrivateInternetAccess. I also don't want to be associated with the other traffic going through PIA or similar VPNs.
- zhte415 10y agoRolling one's own often makes sense, and not just from an audit perspective. Where I am for example almost all VPN vendors are blocked, so there's not much choice other than to roll your own. And once you've figured out how to do it on one provider you can pretty much do the same anywhere.