I'm using OpenVPN Access Server on my digitalocean node. It's only $5/month, really easy to set up, and its client supports Windows, Mac and iPhone (not sure about android). Unless hiding your ip address is that important to you, I don't think it's worth paying for vpn service.
Here's how easy it is to set it up https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-openvpn-access-server-on-ubuntu-12-04 - Max On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:00:02 John Mort wrote: > > So first I watched this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37nfG8m0Xz > > And experienced the requisite outrage at how ISPs mess with your > connection > > and such. > > Speaking of ISPs messing with your connection, I cannot /directly/ view the > above link -- I get a YouTube page showing "This video does not exist" > with a > frown face. However, after viewing the link /below/ on YouTube, I found > the > videos shown at the end, and the top-left video is ... the one at the > /above/ > link, I'm able to play it, and sure enough it's the same link. Hmmmm! :-/ > Very odd. > > > Then I watched this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx3LRfE-XiI > > And learned how a VPN can improve your connection at home and secure your > > connection in public wifi.. > > > > Now I'm considering this: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ > > > > Up to now, I've always just run an SSH tunnel to my machine at home in > > order to be able to browse securely. Lately though, that connection has > > been pretty crappy. > > Supposedly there are 200 Gbps - 400 Gbps DDoS attacks going on with the > 'net > right now, and I think there are a number of odd things having to be done > to > try to mitigate them. Bandwidth amplification via NTP is one of the root > causes lately. Whether this could be affecting your ISP and your > particular > connection... unknown. I had some odd issues with my ISP lately where all > connections were very slow, so I shut down NTP on the router and we called > to > discuss it, and soon after things were fast again. They said we'd have to > plan to reset our cable modem once a week (?!?) but didn't say why. > > > I'm not sure if my machine, my router, or my ISP is to > > blame. But between the increase in security, the potential increase in > > performance, and the fact that it would only cost $40/year to have > someone > > else manage something like this for me even if I only use it when my home > > system is down for some reason, I'm tempted. > > > > Here's my question, how do you evaluate the security of buying a VPN > > service from someone else? My emotional reaction to using a service like > > this is that they could be snooping on all my traffic, but not using a > VPN > > this risk certainly exists with my ISP snooping on all my traffic. > > Regardless of VPN or not I'd be sending my mail via ESMTPSA -- that is, > sending my mail via SMTP AUTH over TLS. These days it's often the case > that > mail transfers can end up all being over TLS such that the transfers are > all > encrypted end-to-end. Usually not true for mailing lists though. > > > How do you determine who is less untrustworthy? Does anyone here use > > a service like this? > > I don't but I've been considering them; common recommendation but I didn't > realize you could end up getting a bandwidth /speedup/ from using one. > > -- Chris > > -- > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Mar 5 - 11th Anniversary Meeting - Home Network Show and Tell > Apr 2 - Nginx: High-Performance HTTP Server, Reverse Proxy, and > IMAP/POP3 Proxy Server > May 7 - Google App Engine > -- - Max Shkurygin There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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