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Do yourself a favor. Get a Digital Ocean droplet for $6/mo, Debian version, follow their excellent step-by-step directions to install OpenVPN Server. Done.

You don’t have to know Linux, the instructions are tight. I only got hung on one step where they left a small thing out. Also, I was drunk. Got it going the next evening.

This thing has been running for years and years, can’t even remember how to log in, likely lost my SSH key. 🙄 No worries about logging. It’s yours, they can’t take it away or change the rules. It’s yours.

And BTW, not sure my rate has gone up in the ~7 years I had it. Maybe $1. That might have been because I enabled additional backups.

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dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Bad take

You only have one country (the one you run your vps in).

Costs more than any vpn provider (which come with many extra features out the box).

You are not maintaining your OpenVPN installation and having to is likely a pain for most people (you said you “can’t even remember how to login”, which tells you me are not updating your servers OS or OpenVPN itself, which is leaving you open to vulnerabilities in the old software).

There might be advantages too, but I can’t think of any unless you are gonna use the VPS for other stuff too and creating the vpn is basically free then (but I still wouldn’t do it personally).
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lando55@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This will only satisfy limited use cases. DO operates primarily in the US, and global region availability is limited to a handful of countries. People like to be able to change their VPN gateway country, something not easily supported in your setup.

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My data center is in Amsterdam (AMS3). What are you on about? No, you can’t flip your connection all over the globe, but it’s still outside of America.
  
  Go with a commercial provider then. But don’t bitch about all the issues and risks.
  
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  - Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Are you ok?
    
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  - lando55@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I honestly don’t know why you took that as bitching, I’m merely pointing out that your setup likely won’t satisfy the needs of many who are looking at VPN subscriptions. It’s great that it works for you, but several folks I know aren’t likely to (for example) maintain or provision a VPS over in the UK to use BBC iPlayer.
    
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- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I would not want my VPN to be hosted in the US, and not only because of trump.
  
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  - shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Amsterdam (AMS3) is not in America, in case you missed that bit.
    
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