How To Create Your Own VPN (and why)

In this video I show you how (and explain why) to setup your own VPN server with openvpn.
This is the script I used to setup Openvpn easily.
github.com/angristan/openvpn-...
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[@MentalOutlaw]

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[@glitchy_weasel]

Just a few tips, be sure that the IPv6 and DNS aren't leaking. Also, for those interested you dont necesarily need to rent a VPS, you could do this in your home. That way, when you are outside of your home (college dorm, hotel) you can connect to your LAN devices remotely too!

[@chubbycatfish4573]

"Military grade" for those that were in the military means "as absolutely as cheaply made as fucking possible."

[@CorruptedBat]

0:48

[@ehanneken]

The video specifically says why you might want to do this: to change your IP, to avoid DDoS attacks on your personal IP or to get around region blocks. Anonymization wasn’t part of the rationale, so several commenters have missed the point.

[@supahx1421]

VPSs are actually a worse choice than VPNs for anonymization in pretty much every aspect. The whole point of a using a VPN provider is anonymization through other users. You can switch servers and there other users on the network to anonymize traffic, but with a VPS you are the only person associated with that IP, and so using a VPS is more akin to a proxy than anonymization. A government agency can also very easily subpoena a cloud service provider and get the name, address, and billing information associated with one of their IPs, while some VPN providers actually let you use their services without creating an account and accept crypto. Most hosting providers also recycle their IPs and so they end up blacklisted in a lot of places. The only reason for setting up your own VPN should be a literal "private network" such as creating a reverse proxy for your home network if you self-host.

[@ezruy]

From VPN shills to VPS shills what's the difference

[@GanerRL]

goes through all the effort of censoring the ip for nothing lol

[@Alex-qf1pm]

Hey Kenny, so I need a bit of advice with this. I have a friend in China, and I decided to host my own VPN to help him, but instead of using a VPS, I used my local network. I did this basically the same way, but my friend's internet connection is maybe 50 times slower than mine when connected, and sometimes it just drops the connection. Bypassing Chinese censorship is hard, we can't use any big popular VPS IP or VPNs, hence the self-hosting. It's low profile enough to not alert the censors.

[@phpeon9282]

There are very few channels I've watched as religiously as yours.

[@-na-nomad6247]

The main objective of a VPN is to provide a virtual network, not an additional node to bounce through, the node is not a function but a side-effect, you can make use of it like this or like most vpn providers allow, but the objective remain to connect multiple machine to the same subnet so they can access a private resource inside that subnet or communicate directly as if they were in the same local network, if your objective is to hide your true ip (not from the government but from the end server) then a proxy would be more fitting.

[@swarmofmudkipz]

U taught me more about practical IT things more than my IT courses. I think it's because the things you do r fun and practical. Your arch install guide really pushed me out of my comfort zone and I'm super hooked on Linux now.

[@nerdkid5072]

Wow your videos never miss. I have been looking for a good VPN provider on Linux for quite some time, but just following your video for 5 bucks a month I have full control over my own. Thanks!

[@20Ix]

A VPN loses it privacy purpose if It has few to one users.

[@thesunstep]

Here is a tip: do not disable password authentication until you're 100% sure that key based login works. If it doesn't work properly, you can always log back in to the system using your password. But if you disable password authentication and something went wrong setting up key based authentication, you will lock your self out from the system. So make sure it actually works first before turning off password. If you think you have set it up correctly but it still does not accept your key file, then try making sure all the permissions are set correctly.

[@midimusicforever]

Just don't use this to dodge three letter agencies. They know it was you who rented that server.

[@HiImKyle]

The actual tutorial starts at

[@visceralcinema]

I've used your tutorial as a template to create a PKE SSH session with other VMs that just start with a root user! Absolutely a gem, thank you @Mental Outlaw

[@kiwec]

dsvpn is easier to setup than openvpn (and more secure because there are way fewer moving parts).

[@ozziedood]

This is a very dear topic to me since setting up a personal VPN server was my very first project that got me into server management and IT in general.