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What cloud do you use? A lot of websites will flag any AWS or data center IP as a bot.
by rafale 4y ago
What cloud do you use? A lot of websites will flag any AWS or data center IP as a bot.
- banana_giraffe 4y agoSo, I do have two VPN servers running, one on my home connection, and one on AWS, for just the reason you state. That said, I got back from a week long trip a few weeks ago. I kept my AWS tunnel up the entire trip. For the set of websites I visit for personal and work reasons, it was never an issue. I'm sure I could find some website that doesn't work, but for me, it's just not a problem. It's also super useful, since I can whitelist my AWS instance's IP on services that demand such things, and never have to worry about where I am as I move from network to network. I've also reserved the Elastic IP so I can stop/terminate my server when I want without needing to whitelist the IP again when I spin it back up
- yellowapple 4y agoThankfully I never encountered that as an issue with e.g. Amazon Workspaces.
- runnerup 4y agoI use whatbox.ca as my global/universal VPN. So far I haven’t seen any issues. It works in places where most VPNs are banned or heavily throttled (like Saudi/Abu Dhabi/Qatar, my workplace, AT&T cellular data, etc)
- charsi 4y agoIsn't whatbox.ca mainly aimed at hosting seedboxes? They are accordingly higher priced than a VPN. Whats the rationale for using them as a VPN ?
- runnerup 4y ago1) It’s the only VPN that worked in areas where they work hard to block most VPNs 2) it’s still not very expensive 3) it’s absurdly fast for a “VPN”! Like 400Mbit symmetric. 4) I also use it as a seedbox. Speaking of…does anyone have an invitation a private tracker to replace what.cd because I miss that. Or a no/low compression movie tracker.