If you want to use VPN for whatever reason, it’s always easy to sign up for a commercial VPN provider like ProtonVPN. But sometimes, a self-hosted VPN server provides more benefits and this article will list the 5 best solutions. Self-Hosted VPN/Proxy Benefits Dedicated IP Address The No Logging policy of commercial VPN providers may…

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Sorry but this article is kinda bad.

    1. Openconnect VPN… sorry do i have to say more. This has to be a joke, this solution doesn’t even come close to openvpn or wireguard in feature set, performance and whatever metric you want to look at.

    2. OpenVPN comes before Wireguard. This makes no sense wireguard is faster and easier to setup. Literally no reason in 2023 to even consider openvpn, unless one of your clients is a windows 2000 machine.

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      11 year ago

      In my experience (not much) OpenVPN seems to offer a more turn-key experience, so if a user isn’t comfortable with the added steps to configure wireguard, it is a better solution, because the alternative is probably nothing.

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    11 year ago

    Good article.

    Many routers will also let you either load or use a router based vpn. Ubiquity will let you load wireguard on the edgerouter lites for example, so you don’t necessarily need additional resources.

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      11 year ago

      Omada recently added wireguard to it’s von repertoire, and tomato has wireguard available through the command line.