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Any VPN Self-hosters about?
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Self hosting isn't really for location spoofing, it can only allow you to spoof the location where the VPN server is installed. They are used most commonly to access your home network while you are away without exposing your home network to all the threats of open internet ports.
Edit: I think I may have misunderstood the question. What are you wanting the use the VPN for? To access your jellyfin from a remote location, or prevent your ISP from seeing you torrent? Or is it for location spoofing for web browsing and preventing data tracking?
If the former, use wireguard or tail scale, or cloudflare service(can remember the name). If the latter you can use a commercial VPN only for your torrent software.
My main goals are as follows:
Provide wider network privacy.
Obscure Torrents traffic from my ISP/Government should their enforcement against this increase.
Obscure traffic and bypass censorship of sites and services targeted by the so-called "Online safety act". Whether that's porn, wikipedia, or social media censored for Antizionism, I don't care. I only mention location spoofing as that's a mechanism of bypassing said censorship.
Allow access to my home server remotely via my existing hosted domain in Cloudflare, which allows me to set family memebers up with client applications easily.
These goals won't work well on the same setup. A commercial VPN provider will make you (more) anonymous to third parties like copyright snitches by mixing your traffic with other customers emerging from the same endpoint. A self hosted VPN can be useful for accessing your home network from outside, accessing the Internet from the location of your VPS, or hosting services from behind your ISP's firewall, but does nothing for anonymity. The IP of the endpoint is leased exclusively to you.
A VPN itself is just a means of tunneling traffic from one location (e.g. your home) to another (e.g. some office or data center). You would want two separate VPNs to cover these use cases. A commercial (not self-hosted) one for piracy, and a self-hosted one on a VPS for the homelab to bypass the ISP firewall (and potentially non-pirate web browsing emerging from one specific location outside UK).
Be careful with the routing! Funny and unexpected things can happen when you activate or deavtivate network interfaces. The traffic WILL be sent over the wrong interface (I.e. unencrypted torrents to your home ISP, bank transactions to the "anonymous" torrent VPN) unless there is a firewall preventing it, and IPv6 traffic will not be blocked by rules explicitly written for IPv4 address ranges. :)