https://vpn.ccrypto.org/
It's plain and simple OpenVPN made by nice people, and it's only 3€/month.
Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?
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#12HideIPVPN and Avast SecureLine.
I use HideIPVPN for their European servers. And I use Avast on my phone to automatically get on VPN when I am on certain Wifi networks (it does SSID based connections).
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#13NordVPN, outside of US jurisdiction and (claims to) does no logging.
The service used to be really spotty, but they really stepped it up lately.
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#14https://www.getcloak.com - works on my Mac and various iOS devices. Well designed, have been with them since the beginning with no issues.
I used Cloak but moved away because:
1) There was no real interest in expanding the list of exit points.
2) It seemed to protect only http/https traffic.
3) The whole operation felt like someone's "passive income" business (although, to be fair, the owner responded fairly quickly and honestly when I queried him about other stuff).
To be fair, their OSX client tries hard to be transparent. This approach falls apart in some cases (i.e. some captive portals), but feels very smooth when it all goes right.
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#15VyperVPN has always been good to me and I've never read anything bad against it, anyone had bad experiences I should know about?
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#16AirVPN - https://airvpn.org/
- claims to be "operated by activists and hacktivists"
- uses OpenVPN
- GPLv3 client for many platforms
- accepts Bitcoin (or PayPal, Credit Cards, ...)
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#17I usually SSH tunnel to my server at home or to my 5$/month Digital Ocean droplet.
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#18I use the following OpenVPN docker container on my homeserver: https://github.com/kylemanna/docker-openvpn
I then send all of the logs to Loggly and get notified anytime someone connects to my OpenVPN server.
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#19The old recommendation here used to be privateinternetaccess.com I cancelled my subscription months ago. They stopped circumventing georestrictions a while ago even though it used to be marketed as having that feature. Support even fixed it a few times for me. Nowadays I just use one of the vpn scripts on GitHub and a small vps somewhere.
Which is the VPN scripts do you use? Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?
#20http://www.frostvpn.com/
When I signed up they had a 99 cent a month deal going on. I'm not really concerned about privacy. I just needed something to help with the connection to my dedicated server that runs Plex that is hosted with Hetzner.
Comcast here has poor peering to Hetzner and using a VPN solved the problem.
They have a lot of servers all over the world and they few times I have needed to open a ticket I got a reply in less than a hour.
I also have a Droplet on D.O. that can act as a VPN. I switch to that if I am doing anything sensitive.