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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
A VPN on someone else’s box will mainly just cost you money and tie the traffic to yourself at a different location. If you’re looking to hide questionable downloads, I’d recommend Usenet over torrents. A VPN isn’t really necessary then, and is usually discouraged with software like the arr’s. I am all for the use of a VPN service, such as Mullvad, to increase privacy, but I don’t think you’ll have a good time self-hosting through it.