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parts of the world but don't fret for there is a Shining Light in the darkness the VPN say a website is blocking users in your country by connecting to a VPN in a different country that website will think you're there and boom no more block and today we're going to show you a few ways to do just that level one where all you need is a credit card level two where you get to set up your own VPN and don't worry it's easy and then there's my favorite level three where I tell you about our sponsor next to go their new Aurora Pro Mark I projector Sports an improved 4,000 to1 contrast ratio and support for all major HDR formats learn more by clicking our Link in the video description before you decide how you're going to tackle a VPN it's important to understand why you need one in the first place and I figure there's four main use cases first getting around throttling blocking or banss like your school or government blocking websites accessing region locked content like a different country's Netflix Library obscuring your IP address for privacy or torrenting legal stuff like Linux isos of course and securely accessing a remote Network like your home or business from somewhere else if you fall into any of the first three categories especially torrenting and you want the easiest solution there's level one using one of the many public VPN providers our personal favorite is private internet access and all you've got to do to get these going is sign up download their client and hit connect boring whoa whoa whoo there's nothing wrong with taking the easy route but it doesn't mean you're not in control of your data and even a VPN provider who's trustworthy today could change their behavior in the future for instance if they got bought out by a different company so let's talk level two where you get to your very own private VPN server while there just about a million different ways to skin this cat the setup I'm going to show you today isn't scary requires virtually zero maintenance and puts you in control and you might even learn something along the way like this disclaimer anything we show you today is purely in the interest of education and privacy we aren't condoning or recommending piracy bypassing legislative banss or anything similar the illegal implications of your actions are your own responsibility thanks Riley if you're following along at home you're going to want to check out the GitHub repo we have linked down in the description because that's where you're going to find all the necessary files along with some step-by-step instructions in case you get lost Public vpns Work by tunneling your internet traffic through a dedicated computer in a Data Center and replace your IP address along the way that's the part that hides your location and we're going to do basically the same thing by renting a small piece of a computer from a cloud hosting provider they have data centers all over the world with thousands of servers that are split up into what they call vpss or virtual private servers with the magic of virtualization if you've seen has talked about virtual machines before it's the exact same thing if you're comfortable using a Linux command line you should be able to replicate our setup with virtually any cloud provider but if you're not and for the sake of Simplicity we're going to be using vulture they're not a sponsor but we had great results with their high frequency tier so start by signing up there and we'll come back to it in a sec if we're being honest traditionally setting up a VPN it's complicated and it requires maintenance to keep things secure and reliable so instead of walking you through how to do all of that and keep it maintained we we distilled the entire setup down into a single config file literally this these 100ish lines contain all the information our server needs to set up the VPN create a firewall to keep it secure and handle automatic updates for both the operating system and the VPN software which is called tail scale it has a ton of cool features but most importantly for us it makes the setup much easier and it allows us to use existing accounts like Google or GitHub to log in and the free plan is good for three users or 100 clients so good there once you're logged into tail scale head to the key section of the settings and generate an off key which is basically a fancy password our VPN server is going to use to log in that o key has to make its way into the config file I showed you earlier but that can be tricky and kind of easy to screw up so we made a custom tool which will be linked in the GitHub that you can paste your key into and then it'll spit out a config ready to go for the Nerds out there who want to be able to remote into the machine you'll probably want to add an SSH key but if you don't know what that means just skip this step so we've got our VPN software and we've got a config file now we need to get them on vulture and that's where flat car a lightweight operating system built for high security and more importantly low maintenance comes into play you see it's like it's a little train car with containers on it the container that's our VPN anyways back on vulture click deploy new server and select the region you want to use if you're not trying to get around region restrictions you can pick whatever region is closest to you if you are pick whatever region is closest to you in an area that doesn't have those restrictions now there are a lot of plans to choose from but we found these shared CPU highfrequency ones to be the best bang for your buck specifically the $6 a month base plan which includes a terabyte of bandwidth per month and can handle gigabit speeds without issue you might be able to make it work with cheaper tier so let us know down in the description how that goes disable automatic backup since we won't be storing any data on the machine select the stable version of flat car container Linux and then select Cloud init user data and that's where you're going to be pasting the configuration we generated earlier hit deploy and while we're wai waiting for the VPN server to show up in tail scale's dashboard it's a great time to download tail scale on whatever device you want to use your VPN with so go to their website hit download install and then once it's installed log in if you're on macOS you have to agree to a few system prompts but once that's done it should just connect once you're logged in you should see your client in the tail scale dashboard and hopefully by now also your VPN server which we have to make a few changes to First you want to go into edit route settings and then select use as exit node this is going to allow us to Tunnel our client's traffic to the VPN server and then you want to disable key expiry and you might also want to do this for your client as well if you don't do this after 180 days the VPN server will stop being able to connect to tailscale and just stop working as a VPN assuming you've done everything correctly you should have yourself a functioning self-updating bpn server and I'm sure you did great but now is a good time to check our work so open up command prompt or terminal if you're on macOS like me and run ping VPN server if everything's working you should see responses with the latency listed and if it's not well go back a few steps and make sure you've followed everything correctly assuming this is working you're then going to want to run tail scale status which if you're on macOS is a little bit more complicated I'll just copy paste that boom status and you should see Direct in the response that means you're making a direct connection to the VPN server if you see relay here instead you might have a funky or restrictive firewall that's blocking the connection and you can try asking for help on the LTT Forum or Discord server if all looks good like this W deskpad from LTT Store.com you can go ahead and finally try it out so go to tail scale in your taskbar select exit nodes and then click on VPN server at this point we're now tunneling our own traffic through our very own VPN server assuming we still have internet let me try pinging ping hey it's still working sick thanks we just have to try it out let's go what is my IP address that's kind of the easiest way to figure it out hey I see an IP address that's different than the network that I'm actually on and you can see our ISP shows as vulture Holdings great job now you should only have to select the exit node once per device it should remember the settings but if you're ever unsure it does actually change the icon in the taskbar or you can use a website like I just showed you to check your external IP address now this setup can work great if your goal is to better protect your privacy or to get around throttling or region blocks and at this point you can go ahead and test it out but if you're trying to get around a potential Tik Tok ban or maybe another app for instance you might still be locked out since some of these services use other things to determine your location like the App Store region you downloaded from sometimes GPS location or maybe even your account billing information if that's the case you can try changing your app store region and redownloading for instance but if you can't get that to work the web version in a web page on your computer or your phone should still work now if you're trying to use another country's Netflix Library they like most streaming services aggressively block hosting VPN and data center related IP addresses so this setup probably won't work your best bet is one of the more streaming oriented public VPN providers or if you happen to have a friend in the country of choice hosting a VPN at their house could also be a workable solution what's less workable is torrenting I mentioned earlier that torrenting is a great use case for public vpns that's because whether you're trying to avoid dmca notices or circumvent ISP throttling practically all big cloud providers will for forward abuse reports from your totally legal Torance directly to you and depending on their terms of service they might even suspend your server there are hosting companies that operate in countries that don't abide by the dmca and therefore don't care so if you're looking for that Google is your friend but you may have to get a little bit more manual on the setup now if you fall into the last Camp of wanting to remotely access your home or business Network without having to port forward like to check security cameras or stream video games or Hell run a Minecraft server you you can easily do that with tail scale no VPS required and therefore for free just install the tail scale client directly on the device you want to access like say your Minecraft server and then on your Remote device and log them into the same account you can even run it in subnet routing mode and share services on other devices or even your entire network just keep in mind that by default tail scale doesn't block any connections within the little tail scale Network so if you do explore it we recommend locking things down with their access control rules especially if inviting your friends put that all together and assuming you didn't take the easy route in just a few minutes you've got your very own low maintenance automatically updating VPN server that's easily capable of reaching full gigabit speeds where you're in control of your own data and if you don't want it anymore just get rid of it delete boom now all you're left with is our sponsor next too their new Aurora Pro Mark I 4K Ultra short throw projector takes the original Aurora Pro and amps it up up with a bunch of improvements it now has a better 4,000 to1 native contrast ratio with an absolutely wild over 30,000 to1 Dynamic contrast ratio that combined with a peak brightness of 2400 lumens Delta e of around one and support for all major HDR formats means crystal clear images in just about any environment it's also got a 0.21 to1 throw ratio and four built-in 15 watt speakers meaning it's quite the space saver as well and for you Gamers out there we're looking at 4.2 to 8 milliseconds of latency and hey Wi-Fi 6 compatibility who can say no to that so pick one up by checking our Link in the description and check out their bundles for more savings so thanks for watching if you like this video why not check out our last server room update I think it was called our network is bigger than yours that was a good one and you should watch it"}