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FWIW I tried this on DO and had a bitch of a time. I'm a developer and I run linux as my primary OS, so there weren't any new concepts, exactly. I had to do a

by mod 10y ago

FWIW I tried this on DO and had a bitch of a time. I'm a developer and I run linux as my primary OS, so there weren't any new concepts, exactly. I had to do a lot of google searching of error messages. In the end, it kept failing after droplet creation, I think when whitelisting my IP or something similar. This happened 2 days ago. Anyway, I couldn't even get it running on the droplet, let alone get all connected and ready to go. Might try again with AWS.

amorphid 10y ago
If you want to pair on this, I'd be interested. Even if I don't use it, it's something I've wanted to do for the learning experience. I have enough knowledge of all the pieces to be dangerous, but haven't actually tied all the pieces together. My email is in my profile if interested.
mancerayder 10y ago
I did exactly this, using DO. It works beautifully, and my droplet is in a foreign country. Two things I'd recommend if you have trouble are: a) Look up Digital Ocean's own instructions for setting up OpenVPN. Follow exactly. or b) look at HN threads from today, some people wrote Ansible playbooks and scripts to set it up.
- randomnumber314 10y ago
  There's a good chance I'm wrong here, but isn't directing your traffic overseas the exact thing that makes it fair game to state-level inspection?
  - mancerayder 10y ago
    Fair game legally or technically? Legally maybe, probably, who knows. Personally I don't feel protected legally anymore with regards to privacy. It's a good thing I don't really do anything illegal, even if it both saddens and angers me that the world is letting this happen. Technically I'm assuming without some serious cooperation with Digital Ocean it's going to be hard. Sure, if someone gives the authorities (or the hackers get) root, then my OpenVPN software will be more Open than "VPN."
unstatusthequo 10y ago
I'm not a developer nor run Linux as my primary and got this working on DO and Vultr and XenServer. The github issue community is pretty active. Check out some of that info. The main maintainer is also easy to contact. I set it up using MacOS. It's all about the playbooks. Get that right and you're good.
entrocode 10y ago
I tried first with streisand and ran into problems... but Algo with AWS worked great for me.

by mod 10y ago

amorphid 10y ago

If you want to pair on this, I'd be interested. Even if I don't use it, it's something I've wanted to do for the learning experience. I have enough knowledge of all the pieces to be dangerous, but haven't actually tied all the pieces together. My email is in my profile if interested.

mancerayder 10y ago

I did exactly this, using DO. It works beautifully, and my droplet is in a foreign country. Two things I'd recommend if you have trouble are: a) Look up Digital Ocean's own instructions for setting up OpenVPN. Follow exactly. or b) look at HN threads from today, some people wrote Ansible playbooks and scripts to set it up.

randomnumber314 10y ago
There's a good chance I'm wrong here, but isn't directing your traffic overseas the exact thing that makes it fair game to state-level inspection?
- mancerayder 10y ago
  Fair game legally or technically? Legally maybe, probably, who knows. Personally I don't feel protected legally anymore with regards to privacy. It's a good thing I don't really do anything illegal, even if it both saddens and angers me that the world is letting this happen. Technically I'm assuming without some serious cooperation with Digital Ocean it's going to be hard. Sure, if someone gives the authorities (or the hackers get) root, then my OpenVPN software will be more Open than "VPN."

unstatusthequo 10y ago

I'm not a developer nor run Linux as my primary and got this working on DO and Vultr and XenServer. The github issue community is pretty active. Check out some of that info. The main maintainer is also easy to contact. I set it up using MacOS. It's all about the playbooks. Get that right and you're good.

entrocode 10y ago

I tried first with streisand and ran into problems... but Algo with AWS worked great for me.