v_ivanov

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Ask HN: Your opinion about an idea of platform for mentors and junior developers
1 points by v_ivanov 8y ago|0 comments
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by v_ivanov 11y ago
Hi! Every business has its risks. Some customers may break the laws. Mostly we faced downloading stolen films, software and other stuff. Real hackers and carders do not use low-end cheap VPN. So our customers were mostly people who just wan
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by v_ivanov 11y ago
It is really powerfull solution, but when it was opensourced it didn't look like server-side project
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by v_ivanov 11y ago
Well, and I live and russia and see what is happening here. It is not marketing or collecting attention. It's just my personal opinion.
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by v_ivanov 11y ago
Thanks for pleasant words
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by v_ivanov 11y ago
I just love coding. The second reason that initially I wanted custom solution, that can be flexible. With my own project built from scratch I could introduce new any features much faster.
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by v_ivanov 11y ago
We had 6 vps in different countries. It was about 20-30 active users, with total number of users - 250.
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by v_ivanov 11y ago
Probably. But they used the same email. Simply they used service from time to time
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by v_ivanov 11y ago
I've been looking on docker too, thanks!
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by v_ivanov 11y ago
sure, i did
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by v_ivanov 11y ago
And in russia blocks are not effective(everyone bypass them), but they also affect really peaceful websites. And it is only beginning, waiting for Great Russian Firewall.
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by v_ivanov 11y ago
Well, your vpn had an interesting usecase(making traffic cheaper). In russia everybody just uses some free browser extensions to bypass traffic filtering :(
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by v_ivanov 11y ago
I used OpenVPN. Didn't have enough time to build custom client wrapper. So our customers used some openvpn client, or viscosity. We had about 400 registred clients, of course not all were active and paying. Getting paying customer is q
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Tell HN: Commercial VPN service now in open source
151 points by v_ivanov 11y ago|35 comments