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wouldn't be that difficult to write a script that checks geoip and launches a VPS in the region closest to your current devices public address. You could even c
by broknbottle 8y ago
wouldn't be that difficult to write a script that checks geoip and launches a VPS in the region closest to your current devices public address. You could even create an iOS shortcut to allow you to do it from your iPhone
- Sammi 8y agoWhat's the chance that there are a lot of unknown unknowns that you are not counting on? I'd say that even the known unknown that ips and networks change routinely should make it a headache to maintain.
- wmf 8y agoClassic HN comment. I predict that Warp will fail just as hard as Dropbox.
- manigandham 8y agoSeveral billion-dollar businesses have been built doing things that "wouldn't be that difficult". In this case, I agree that a single VPS is usually enough for most but never underestimate the market power of making things simpler and faster.
- 3xblah 8y agohttps://patents.google.com/patent/US9736710 https://patents.google.com/patent/US9736710 (Not implying anything, just providing a discussion point.)
- mr_toad 8y agoNot sure how hard it would be to install WireGuard fully unattended, I tried it with OpenVPN months ago and still haven’t completed it. Once you get your script to work, you’d have to wait minutes for the VPN to spin up in a new region.
- chrisbroadfoot 8y agoWireGuard is much easier to get configured than OpenVPN. Check out algo: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo https://github.com/trailofbits/algo I think you could bake your configuration into a custom image, so it would be fast to get a VM started (about 30 secs on GCE, not sure about EC2). If you use stopped instances, it's even faster. (I work at GCP so know more about GCE than EC2)