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Building your own Private VPN Service
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:
- 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 — https://m.do.co/c/bd315e37c442
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)