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Re: Volunteering to Setup Free VPN for Private VPN Usage

#11

Post by amanj » Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 10:51 PM UTC

doorbellguy wrote: post #10

Thanks for making this post. I'd love to have one setup but I'm still not sure about this part: >VPN will be setup with your cloud account. So, once setup, I won't have any access to your server Can you elaborate a bit? What's the catch, if there's any?

What I mean by this is, VPN server itself will be setup on a cloud service (say GCP, AWS etc.,).

You will have to create your cloud account and give me the access to it for me to setup your VPN and then you'll revoke the permission for me. This will ensure that I never have access to your VPN server after I set it up. I do this to essentially give you peace of mind. I recommend creating one just for this to keep things separate from any other things you want to do with your cloud service provider.

There is really no catch here. You control what gets tracked or not tracked on your VPN server, what level of logging do you want, how many clients do you want to connect, where do you want your VPN server to run etc.,

Let me know if that clarifies your concern.

Re: Volunteering to Setup Free VPN for Private VPN Usage

#12

Post by doorbellguy » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 11:14 PM UTC

amanj wrote: post #11

doorbellguy wrote: post #10

Thanks for making this post. I'd love to have one setup but I'm still not sure about this part: >VPN will be setup with your cloud account. So, once setup, I won't have any access to your server Can you elaborate a bit? What's the catch, if there's any?

What I mean by this is, VPN server itself will be setup on a cloud service (say GCP, AWS etc.,). You will have to create your cloud account and give me the access to it for me to setup your VPN and then you'll revoke the permission for me. This will ensure that I never have access to your VPN server after I set it up. I do this to essentially give you peace of mind. I recommend creating one just for this to keep thin…

That explains pretty much any follow up questions I could have had. It's a really nice offer from you.

Re: Volunteering to Setup Free VPN for Private VPN Usage

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Post by amanj » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 10:59 PM UTC

doorbellguy wrote: post #12

amanj wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I mean by this is, VPN server itself will be setup on a cloud service (say GCP, AWS etc.,). You will have to create your cloud account and give me the access to it for me to setup your VPN and then you'll revoke the permission for me. This will ensure that I never have access to your VPN server after I set it up. I do this to essentially give you peace of mind. I recommend creating one just for this to keep thin…

That explains pretty much any follow up questions I could have had. It's a really nice offer from you.

Thanks. For me it's easy to set it up. And I know that there is lot of people out there, who would love to have peace of mind, but don't know how to do it on their own.

I have helped setup now probably 20 - 30 people over the last 3 years. It's an awesome feeling when I see that emotional satisfaction they draw, knowing that their data is sent encrypted out of their devices.