What VPN service do you use?

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by greenwalls • 12 years ago

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I'm shopping for a good VPN service. What do you use and recommend?

knes• 12 years ago

I've been using PIA ( https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ ) for more than an year and it has never failed me. High bandwidth & availiblity

iamjdg• 12 years ago

https://www.hidemyass.com/

Someone1234• 12 years ago

Amazon EC2 Micro instance. It costs a little more a month (but less than $15 even with heavily bandwidth utilisation) but the security and flexibility is worth a little higher cost.

I've actually ran a sniffer on a VPN service before and I could monitor other user's traffic (although that is of limited use as I couldn't MITM them nor decrypt HTTPS traffic).

Regardless I'd be looking for an OpenVPN provider if you can find one. By far the more flexible type of VPN since it can be accessed over a lot of free wifi which offers only HTTP/HTTPS traffic.

greenwalls• 12 years ago

I will check it out. Thank you.

anonymouse123• 12 years ago

Ironsocket. They provide VPN (support OpenVPN, L2TP and PPTP), http/socks5 proxies all over the place and a DNS proxy - in the one package. Can't fault them.

rahimnathwani• 12 years ago

See the previous thread here for some suggestions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7029845#up_7042268

If you go the DIY route, check out these shell scripts for installing+configuring PPTP and OpenVPN servers: https://github.com/cwaffles

If you're not sure where to get a VPS suitable for VPN service, look at lowendstock.com or lowendbox.com or lowendtalk.com/categories/offers

If you choose a VPS provider which uses OpenVZ for virtualisation, make sure they let you enable TUN/TAP and PPP from the control panel. Almost all do. Some mention it explicitly.

If you want a cheap non-DIY solution look at http://vpn.sh/

paliopolis• 12 years ago

Another vote for PIA. Have been with them for almost a year and can't complain.

What VPN service do you use?

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