Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend?

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Post by tosh » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 12:52 PM UTC

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Post by N0RMAN » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 1:08 PM UTC

Streisand (https://github.com/jlund/streisand) on Digital Ocean, 5$/Month

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Post by sjs382 » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 1:26 PM UTC

I've used both prgmr.com and DigitalOcean. I would recommend either.

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Post by tmod » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 1:37 PM UTC

N0RMAN wrote: post #2

Streisand ( https://github.com/jlund/streisand ) on Digital Ocean, 5$/Month

I'm 90% sold on this. For the last 10%.. Is it easy enough to choose/change your VPN region on Digital Ocean?

Say for example I want to use Netflix from the US today, and Germany tomorrow for general web surfing.

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Post by philgourley » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 2:22 PM UTC

VyprVPN is my weapon of choice. Only bad side I can see after months of use is lack of coverage inside the China firewall.

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Post by sarciszewski » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 3:52 PM UTC

I've used AirVPN, Cryptostorm, and iPREDATOR in the past. No complaints with either of the three.

That said, if you're trying to hax0r the NSA or something crazy like that, don't expect a VPN to save you.

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Post by Someone1234 » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 3:54 PM UTC

I've ran a VPN via Amazon's AWS "free" tier (approx. $5/month for 12 months). Works both on Windows (with appropriate UDP encapsulation configured for IPsec traffic[0][1] on both client and server) or via OpenVPN on Linux.

I'd imagine OpenVPN would work just fine on Linode or DO. And Windows/OpenVPN would also work via Microsoft's Azure platform.

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/kb/926179 [1] The key term to Google is: "AssumeUDPEncapsulationContextOnSendRule"

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Post by kakashi19 » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 4:46 PM UTC

I would recommend you set up your own VPN so you fine-tune it to suit your need. However, if you can't, then choose VPN providers maintain their servers on their own network instead of renting servers from others. Checkout IPVanish: (http://www.vpntips.com/hidemyass-alternatives/#ipvanish)

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Post by jpetersonmn » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 6:15 PM UTC

box.pn

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Post by xxdesmus » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 7:28 PM UTC

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

https://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-services-take-your-anonym... They log basically nothing (so they claim). Fast speeds, tons of locations, OpenVPN compatible. Zero problems for 2 years now.