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Ask Soylent: How Best to Set Up a VPN?

posted by mrcoolbp on Monday April 14 2014, @05:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-VPN-are-belong-to-us dept.

Gaaark writes:

Hello fellow Soylentils. Colour me a nice Soylent Green Canadian who up until recently has only worried somewhat about security. I use linux (mostly Ubuntu) and in the past I have had time to work at config files and do google searches to solve my problems. Today i have far less time to do these things. My question is: can anyone (practically) hand me a good, easy, linux-friendly, and hopefully cheap VPN solution? Extra kudos to those with free options.

Canada seems to be heading in the direction of the United States and I am beginning to worry that my internet is being taken from me. Can anyone come up with a solution to keep my internetting private and my downloads from being pried into? (I've heard VPN is the way to go, but searching for solutions leaves me wondering if I'm getting scammed in the process.)

Thanks in advance for the help.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by sqrt(-1) on Wednesday April 16 2014, @11:04PM

    by sqrt(-1) (3039) on Wednesday April 16 2014, @11:04PM (#32455)

    My VPS is 512MB ram, $5/mo, but 'only' 1TB of bandwidth. If you do indeed get 10TB/mo for the same price, mind dropping a name?

    My bad. I thought I got 10TB, when it was changed from some lower threshold some time ago. I get 1TB as well. Which is sufficient for now. Comcast has "suspended" the 250GB/month usage at home, so even if I use the OpenVPN all the time, it will be less than 500GB at the VPN end.