which vpn provider can we trust at this point nordvpn failed to disclose their
hack in a timely manner tunnelbear and then pia got acquired by mcafee and cape
technologies respectively both companies with spotty histories with respect to
user privacy i mean it's enough to raise the question can't you just roll a vpn
made by the one person you can definitely trust online yourself the
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the first question you need to ask yourself is what do i need a vpn for we
figure there are roughly four main uses for a vpn at least for now the first is
to secure and encrypt your traffic against prying eyes like your internet
service provider or bad actors on an unsecured wi-fi like say that guy with
his hood up in your local coffee shop i'm not saying he's a bad guy i'm just
saying you might want to use your credit card first netflix subscription right
which brings us to reason number two accessing region locked content like bbc
or netflix by masking your ip address and making it appear as though you are
accessing it from a different country and well
i'ma have to stop you right there because netflix specifically
aggressively blocks any connection coming from a server vpn
or data center related ip address so
your diy vpn isn't going to work for this unless of course a us-based friend
agrees to host a vpn for you at their house giving you access to their network
which happens to be use case number three using a vpn to access a remote
secure network let's say you've got a home server and you want to be able to
access your files or whatever without opening up an ssh server to the entire
internet using a vpn server inside your network's firewall lets you tunnel into
your network remotely via an encrypted connection giving you access to all of
the devices on your network as if you were sitting right next to them from
anywhere so if you fall under any of the first three feel free to skip ahead to
the tutorial portion of this video where we show you how you can set up a vpn
server by yourself on cheap cloud hosting at a friends or at home for
remote access number four is using a vpn to mask your ip for torrenting totally
legal stuff like like Linux iso's this values purposes
real talk though many avid torrenters use vpns to avoid dmca notices and
potential service throttling that's why the data encryption that a vpn provides
is so important for these use cases if your isp knows what your traffic is they
can easily come after you for downloading and sharing copyrighted
content should have worn a stealthy hoodie from lttstore.com bud but
seriously unfortunately for you diy vpn
folks out there if you're trying to run your vpn off of a rented server from a
large hosting provider any abuse reports from your totally legal torrents will
simply be forwarded along to you if the account is in your name now you could
get around the in your name bit by using fake information but we obviously can't
endorse fraud and that doesn't help anyway if your provider just throttles
your connection or suspends your account for accessing pirated content excuse me
Linux isos so the only way to combat this is to set up your vpn on a virtual
machine from a company that's in a country that doesn't abide by the dmca
that way any takedowns they receive will just be routed to the trash now we're
not going to mention any specific providers but if you google dmca ignored
countries i'm sure that you can find one that suits your needs once you've
selected a provider that works for your use case we can move on to selecting a
vps tier at a bare minimum you're going to want at least one core
half a Gigabyte of RAM and enough bandwidth for your application for our
example we're going to be using the lowest tier ipv4 compatible plan from a
cloud hosting company called vulture at just three dollars and fifty cents a
month it's quite competitive with existing public vpn providers if all
you're looking to do is hide your casual web browsing from your isp and wi-fi
snoops tutorial time then if you intend to follow along we've got a step-by-step
text version of this at the ltd forum which is linked in the video description
including commands that you can directly copy paste into your terminal for the
video portion we're going to assume that you've already booted up your centos vps
as per the tutorial set up the firewall and that you are ssh in ready to go next
thing we need to do is install vpn server software there are lots of
options here but one of the easiest that we found is an open source project
called pre-tunnel they've nicely laid out the exact commands that you'll need
to get their vpn software installed and working so copy over and run each
command individually to add the required repositories and their gpg keys these
ensure that the software that we receive has not been tampered with
then install pre-tunnel and mongodb start them and set them to run when your
vps boots at this point you should be able to
access your pre-tunnel web interface remotely by entering first https colon
slash then the ip of your vm if you cannot access it you likely
didn't configure your vps firewall correctly so make sure you double check
that once you've successfully accessed the panel use the supplied command to
get the setup key click enter and then use the other command to get the default
user and password log in and you'll be prompted to do some
initial setup we recommend changing the default username to make it harder to
bruteforce and you can also specify a custom domain here if you don't fancy
typing in the ip all the time next create an organization this is
basically just a user group and helps keep things
well organized following that create a user while being
sure to specify a secure pin
with your user and your org setup head over to the server page and create your
vpn server you're going to want to leave most of the settings here on their
defaults except for the port that you previously specified in the firewall and
you might want to disable interclient communication and enable multiple device
support after linking your organization to the server you can go back to the user page
and download the pre-tunnel client straight off of the panel along with
your vpn profile now you connect and bam
you've got a shiny new ip address with all of your data encrypted along the way
even with our test server located in new york which is almost 3 000 miles away
from our office our latency was obviously worse but we were still able
to get speeds of more than 150 megabits at just three dollars and fifty cents a
month offering us a near line level experience it's perfect for shopping on
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