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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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have one just to access my LAN from afar or for privacy from work/public WiFi. But it won't help circumvent any national blocks/websites blocking your country. It just makes it so that you're basically connected to your home WiFi from anywhere, but that means any issues you have using your home Internet remain.

You would have to pay for a VPN, or rent a server somewhere else to circumvent issues with your home Internet.

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