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Building your own Private VPN Service

Arcy Caparros
4 min readJan 7, 2025

Is building your own VPN service worth it? Are you concerned about cost, true privacy, or trusting a provider?
With countless VPN options available, each prioritizing speed, security, reliability, or geolocation, have you ever considered creating your own?

Requirements:

  1. A Virtual Private Server (VPS) — shop around for pricing and reliability. Tons of options out there. I currently use Digital Ocean and SSD Nodes for reliability and pricing.

Here’s my referral links should you start venturing out.

Digital Ocean
SSD Nodes

You do not need to create a powerful server to host your private VPN. The goal is to have your VPC and install VPN application.

2. VPN application (server side)

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Arcy Caparros
Arcy Caparros

Written by Arcy Caparros

InfoSec, Dad, Jack of All Trades and Master of None

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