Michael,
What is your purpose? VPN gets confusing because one can use the technology for
stealth purposes or to access services securely when not local.
If your desire as the original poster was is to access "home" devices while on
the road then your not going to want to use a cloud service. You really want a
router or UNIX server that can provide network tunneling that is located on the
edge between your home systems and the ISP's network.
If you want to set up a web server on the other hand, I would recommend using a
cloud service and then either using secure FTP or a VPN service to upload
content to the cloud service. I expect this is already part of the package of
the cloud provider though Essentially you have to be able to do maintenance and
content updates on your server if you only have a few pages you will probably
want the cloud provider to do all the maintenance and all you need to do is
drop HTML / JS / CSS files in the appropriate places which can be done with
SFTP or Kerberos enabled FTP.
Now, if you are touring around coffee shops and need to get work done this
would be the third use of VPN technology. In this case look at tunnel bear or
Witopia or any of several other small providers. Essentially they are putting
UNIX servers in network data centers and then allowing tunnels from that server
back to your computers. On the other end the UNIX server just spews out the
data to the regular Internet but it then appears like you are connected inside
the data center. This provides two services:
1. All traffic leaving your system is encrypted and just looks like garbage all
going to the VPN provider. Second, you can make it look like you are in Germany
even when connected to the Internet in Hong Kong.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
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> On Aug 26, 2017, at 11:12 AM, michael babcock <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Would it be worth rolling an OpenVPN install on a cloud service like Linode?
>
>> On Aug 26, 2017, at 6:38 AM, Scott Granados <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> Few ways you could do this.
>>
>> My router has Open VPN built in, it’s a Netgear Night Hawk 8500 and it has
>> all the certs and everything pre built. Very easy to set up. I can then
>> either just connect to my home network and send everything else in the clear
>> or tunnel everything through the home connection encrypted.
>>
>> You could also build a server with two NICs and put one on the inside
>> network, one on the outside, enable IP forwarding and install Open VPN.
>> Advantage here is you can use existing hardware in your collection but more
>> setup work on the down side.
>>
>> You could also buy some hardware on eBay used. Something like an old
>> Cisco ASA or Juniper SRX that you would wire up similarly and or use as a
>> router replacement. Since you’re a technical guy and heavy on the systems
>> side you might like this option so you start learning and working with
>> enterprise level gear on the cheap.
>>
>> Just a ew ideas.
>>
>>> On Aug 25, 2017, at 6:54 PM, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Scott and anyone else with thoughts on this.
>>>
>>> I’m looking for a VPN service either existing that I can use to connect
>>> from my mac book air or iPad / iPhone to my home systems which consist of a
>>> couple of mac minis and windows servers 2012R2 and others.
>>>
>>> I just want something to connect from the remote device to the home end and
>>> then rdp into what I need at the time to access.
>>> I’m not sure free is the best option but thoughts greatfully appreciated.
>>>
>>>
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