Amnezia: A Self-Hosted VPN to Make You Forget About Other VPNs

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Want to ditch expensive VPN subscriptions and take control of your online privacy? 🤔 In this video, we're diving into Amnezia, a free and open-source VPN that lets you become your OWN provider! 🤯
Say goodbye to hidden costs and hello to ultimate control over your data. We'll show you how to set up your own private VPN server in minutes using Amnezia and a super affordable VPS from RackNerd (they're having an 11.11 sale - 🤑 cha-ching!).
Amnezia is packed with clever tech to keep you hidden online, like Shadowsocks and OpenVPN over Cloak. 🥷 Plus, no registration or logs means your privacy is truly protected. 💪
We'll walk you through the entire process, from setting up your server to configuring Amnezia for maximum privacy. 💻 Don't forget to enable that kill switch! 😉
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[@DBTechYT]

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[@J2DR000]

Hey.... FYI, none of your links work. Just getting Cloudflare Argo Tunnel errors

[@basix250]

Tip: Check your VPS provider's policy on network loggging. If they keep a log *and* shares the information with the authorities, you may want to look into other options.

[@BuddhaMedam]

Thanks for been completely honest + for sharing this awesome project ;-))

[@DBTechYT]

Thanks for watching and commenting!!

[@MrEric377]

Thank you Thank you Thank you I got my vps yesterday because of you. Maybe I will try Amnezia. Thanks again

[@DBTechYT]

Outstanding!!

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Apple just removed amnesia client from it's RU store at the request of the RU govt. How gracious of them. Then, also, tailscale announced it would not work in RU anymore as well. It actually stopped working recently, then resumed, but notified they'd shut down in RU after a certain period. Thank you, tailscale, you were a convenient way to watch yt in RU, but apparently we don't need that anymore...

[@DBTechYT]

I've seen a few things in the Amnezia sites and whatnot that talk about how some things like this have recently quit working in Russia. This kind of thing was one of the things that motivated the team to make Amnezia in the first place.

[@chipr1404]

Great video DB! I wonder, would it be able to do the same with Portainer and a Docker compose file?

[@DBTechYT]

Maybe? The setup runs on Docker containers, but you'd have to check out the documentation for more info

[@KimOstberg]

This is a very interesting way to install a vpn server.

[@DBTechYT]

That's what I was thinking! :)

[@xiaxiao7567]

Hmm? seems nice but is there another method of installation. I dont know what happens or what scripts etc is executed nudge me in the right direction if you have more info! Thanks!

[@DBTechYT]

You would have to refer to their documentation or get on their support. Links to everything is on their website. What I can say is that it looks like everything is running via Docker containers.

[@xiaxiao7567]

@@DBTechYT Thanks for the reply. Am just interested!

[@ierosgr]

Would home deployment be against the whole point of VPN service since the one covers his trails self deploys it as well?

[@DBTechYT]

it would defeat the purpose because you would still be using your own IP

[@Jimmyhuybrechts]

@@DBTechYT for some having the home IP might actually be the whole purpose of the VPN so it just depends on what you want with the VPN :)

[@xiaxiao7567]

damn xray reality lol xD used this to help a friend out of the chinese firewall nice!

[@DBTechYT]

That's awesome!!

[@deyumei7965]

That was my first reaction too lol xray!

[@KarbonBlack]

help me: why I shouldn’t self host it on my home server but I should rent a VPS? I am legit asking. Is it a security problem?

[@DBTechYT]

If you're trying to help stay anonymous online, using your home's IP address isn't a great way to do that. Using a VPS is a way to have the privacy you want from a VPN and NOT use your home's IP in the process

[@KarbonBlack]

@DBTechYT oh thanks! :)

[@deyumei7965]

​@DBTechYT Yes, but VPN is encrypted though, even if they see your address, they still couldn't see what's inside it.

[@getHornbied]

Hey dude! Regarding racknerd; the ip that you get, would it be good for email?

[@DBTechYT]

In theory it should work, but the problem with IPs is that you don't know who had it before you and what they may have done to ruin the IP's reputation online. If you run into that issue, it can be a bit of a process to regain, but it's possible.

[@sanujas]

In case you encounter any issues, I recommend reaching out to their customer support team. Speaking from personal experience, they are incredibly helpful and responsive. Moreover, they offer a one-time free IP change (as far as I recall).

[@fvgoya]

This look pretty cool. But I always heard to not trust in free VPN even if we host it. Is that true? Also, can’t I host on my home server?

[@ozerune]

No ones you self host you should trust more if anything

[@DBTechYT]

Hosting on your home server would, I think, defeat the purpose of hiding your IP. You can also check out more details about Amnezia here: - www.techradar.com/vpn/amnezia-vpn-review-year - www.wired.com/story/amnezia-vpn-russia-censorship/ - cybernews.com/privacy/amnezia-vpn-protocol-evades-censors/

[@4eyesleo]

Hosting it on own homeserver makes sense if you are living in a free country and want to help out those who are not that lucky... It runs OK on a VM, but opening ports to this VM from outside is quite risky. It should be firewalled from the rest of LAN

[@NightHawkATL]

Most self-hosted VPNs hosted on your own network are meant to allow you to connect back to your home when away from home or allow others to connect to your services. This is to replace something like PIA or SurfShark, which are outgoing VPNs to hide your public IP.

[@ronm6585]

Thanks for sharing.

[@DBTechYT]

Thanks for watching!

[@sajidahmed4834]

Unfortunately it doesn't support Cloudflare WARP+.

[@account-x6m]

No Docker? Then no thanks.

[@sigmaroll9802]

🙏

[@anonuser2640]

Your cloudflare tunnel is broken

[@DBTechYT]

Internet was down. Should be fine now

[@jamesdavis7426]

you need to look up what self-hosted means.

[@DBTechYT]

You could look up the word "pedantic". You do realize that you could host this on your own server if you wanted to? I just showed a different option

[@wdaniel9888]

Lol commenting this @james just shows you don't know what it means which is hilarious.

[@Fernwehklicker]

Kinda looks very interesting but I seems the developers are connected with Russia, could you verify that?

[@DBTechYT]

Their goal was to help people IN Russia (and other similarly goverened places like China) get past the firewalls there and remain anonymous and safe while getting access to more information than their governments are allowing.

[@RoyPerez-drumnote]

Nothing is free.

[@DBTechYT]

I agree. This is the self-hosted version of their paid product. So they make their money from the people who want to pay them to host it.

[@Badwith_Names]

What is the point of hosting your own VPN for privacy on a VPS? Yeah, you may hide from your ISP but the VPS provider is going to log and track everything.

[@DBTechYT]

That's why I said "if you trust your VPN provider". I very explicitly said that.

[@gzoechi]

That's when you don't get a static IP and don't want to use something like DynDNS

[@bkiesz]

I like the idea of this when traveling or connecting to an open WiFi connection around town.

[@Macatho]

tbh using a vpn for anything except changing your location to watch region-restricted tv shows or accessing your private network is 100% completely and utterly pointless. Only idiots fall for these marketing schemes.

[@DBTechYT]

There's really no need for name-calling based on your beliefs. Please don't do that in my comments section.

[@yasheshshah3967]

@Macatho that is a pretty stupid take on VPNs, try to not have hard opinions on things you know little about or don't understand.

[@jonathandoe7490]

First