Any VPN Self-hosters about? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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Hello comrades! In light of the fucked up state of the UK govt I'm looking at some VPN options to further harden my homelab.

Right now, I have zero VPN coverage for my seedbox/jellyfin server which of course means a major security hole, even if my ISP hasn't shit over me for it yet.

I had a few questions about selfhosting a VPN versus a third party service.

How does a self hosted VPN actually do anything? I was under the impression that VPNs had to be off-site to give the benefits of, say, location spoofing.
Do I need to pay any subscriptions to other services for a self hosted VPN? At least in order to access features such as location spoofing.
We use Cloudflare WARP at work to access internal services. Will a LAN-VPN Fuck this up even if I explicitly avoid spoofing my location to ensure my IT guy doesnt shit a brick?

thanks cumrades!

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Melbicom has gigabit servers I think. If it's close enough you could get full speed.

Europe in general you can find cheap gigabit vps. It's Asia where transit is v expensive.

Does a VPS have its own issues since it would be tied to my banking info should I use it to bypass a government censor?

VPS can see ip addresses and encrypted data. Banking sites log your IP so yes they can tag your IP to your identity. Not a problem with shared airvpn and all.

With pihole you can have a different server connected to your router ie your home lab

But for whole network routing through VPN, the router itself must be doing it. Not the home lab.

[-] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Gotcha. I'll make some notes on my options. Thank you!

For now it looks like the goal is:

Client (LAN) -> VPN (Router) -> VPS -> VPN -> WAN

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Client(s) - > Your Router (hosting Wireguard VPN client -> Encrypted Wireguard Tunnel Over Internet - >VPS (Wireguard Server) -> Internet.

With pihole you mentioned before

Your DNS Queries (only DNS on udp port 53) -> Pihole on homelab (blocks/caches and forwards to encrypted dns, either port 443 or 853) -> Router -> DNS Sever listening on same 443/853 (Eg 1.1.1.1) whichever you set in settings of pihole

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