[TriLUG] Home VPN?

[Daniel Sterling via TriLUG]

There is a free tier! For personal use

https://tailscale.com/pricing?plan=personal

Plan Highlights

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   Limited to 3 users
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   100 devices



On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM Wes Garrison <wes at xitechusa.com> wrote:

> We use Tailscale at work as well, and it's super easy and convenient.
> It's not free, but it's pretty reasonable.
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> On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM Daniel Sterling via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> Check out tailscale, it's also based on wireguard and makes it easy to set
>> up peer-to-peer VPN and routing.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailscale
>>
>> The open-source software acts in combination with the management service
>> to
>> establish peer-to-peer or relayed VPN communication with other clients
>> using the WireGuard protocol
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM John Broome via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > And, like someone else suggested, they use wireguard as their software.
>> >
>> > If you search around GitHub for “wireguard” you’ll see a lot of projects
>> > where people have bundled it with pihole, and/or added a nice front-end
>> to
>> > it for client management.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 09:07 Bill Weinel via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > A VPN provider is only as good as their security and your trust in
>> them
>> > > to maintain it. I use Proton VPN here. (https://protonvpn.com/) They
>> are
>> > > based in Switzerland, don't do logging, don't archive your data, are
>> > > Linux compatible, easy to setup, have multiple servers located around
>> > > the world, don't slow down your access based upon the amount you pay,
>> > > and even offer free subscriptions. They were recently reviewed by PC
>> > > Magazine and have earned their top rating (see:
>> > > https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-vpn-services). Their setup
>> > > documentation is easy to follow and works with most any platform.
>> > >
>> > > All the best,
>> > > Bill
>> > >
>> > > On 2/18/25 20:22, Matthew Glassman via TriLUG wrote:
>> > > > How difficult and precarious is it to set up a home VPN without
>> relying
>> > > on
>> > > > something like NORD or some other service?  I had the thought that
>> > maybe
>> > > > I'd want to try doing that but wasn't sure where to start and what I
>> > > might
>> > > > want to consider.
>> > >
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