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by Rjevski 2917 days ago
Make your own with a box in AWS or any other cloud provider running something like Strongswan on Linux or iked on OpenBSD.

All the out of the box VPNs I've found have some shortcomings, either being horribly insecure (PPTP, seriously?), overpriced, often abused (which means their entire subnet is banned by pretty much everything) and the providers sometimes seem shady (I want a VPN to escape cancer aka ads, not the government - in this case I'd actually prefer something akin to an ISP complying with local laws versus a "bulletproof" one who could very well be a fly-by-night operation up to no good).

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Have you taken a look at algo[1]? Dead simple to set up on AWS.

[1] https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

I've found that a lot of typical residential traffic (Netflix) is blocked when routing through datacenters.

I'd love to hear your experience.

Lots of gaming traffic is also banned. People use AWS for malicious purposes (usually free tier) and then the IP gets recycled, eventually, to a legitimate user.

Popular cloud hosts with a freemium option are a bad idea for personal vpn.

I don't have any issues with Netflix on either Linode or Digital Ocean personally.
Sounds great, I'll do my research and get to work.