VPN Landscape Changes There used to be only 2 types of popular VPN services: 1. Self-hosted Open VPN (which is VERY painful to setup) from scratch 2. Using "middlemen" who even overtook YouTube with their sponsored ads. It was so noxious, that everyone was joking about it But the time showed that there were huge security breaches with some of these "experts" ... and look, these are marketing people, who are basically re-selling you Open VPN at 10x the cost. If it is not enough - they would just sell or lose your data. There is NO INCENTIVE for them to care, as famously quoted. What has changed lately: - Wireguard appeared. Supposedly it is much easier to install by yourself. Did not try it myself. Please report your experience - Enterprise OSS tools like pritunl still exist, which are basically enterprise wrappers around Open VPN and Wireguard. Their docs become more and more convoluted and enterprise focused, but I guess it still works. Key advantage - it is fully OSS and kind of independent (cannot fully check it) - Open VPN itself ... wrote a "pritunl"-like app called OpenVPN Access Server (great name by the way), and now it is offered by major hosting providers as a bundled app at the price of hosting (DO, Vultr, Hetzner, but Hetzner is not fully bundled). I may be wrong here, but they learned their mistake and made this app not OSS. What would I choose, if I were to make a choice now? I guess Wireguard or Pritunl. What do you think? #linux