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A good provider for a VPN to connect to my home network?
Hey y'all, I'm traveling soon and need to connect to my home network via either wireguard or openvpn through a raspberry pi on my network so I can access my home server(s). I do not want to have to port forward or have to set up a DDNS.
Which provider would be good for this? I only need a month right now, but if I like them, I'd likely hire them for longer.
Ideally I'd like this to be hassle free since I'm short on time, but I can handle a bit of config.
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https://mzunguhosting.ml/
Network fast my man
I don't know where you are, but here are a few recommendations based on my experience:
@CLAWCLOUD (claw.cloud) - $12/yr or $3/mo for 500GB of relayed traffic. Has decent encryption performance. (4.9GB/s on AES-128-GCM bench)
@Cam (hosting.gullo.me) - OVZ NAT VPS starting at $5/yr, 125GB bandwidth.
https://incognet.io/wireguard-vpn
We've got you covered.
Thanks a bunch y'all! Let me have a look!
Advanced Newtork
Network fast my man
How about tailscale ?
I think you’ve misunderstood what almost all commercial vpn providers are selling.
You want Tailscale or zerotier (worse).
I want a solution which will let me keep my current IPs so I don't have to reconnect/login to my apps whenever I leave the house. I'm aware of tailscale, but there's no easy way to set it up that way. I'd have to change IPs in 7-9 applications just on my phone every time I turned on mobile data.
Back in 2017 I was able to drop an installer of OpenVPN on a VPS, and access my home network through an .ovpn config and access my home network similar to how I describe from there with a few clicks. My current VPS only allows wireguard and they don't let me change networking rules, so I can't do it with them.
I'm saddened there doesn't seem to be a less hassle way to access my home network remotely nearly 10 years since then.
You can setup a tailscale exit node inside your network and then just route your traffic through it
Thanks for the suggestion, it looks viable, but like a lot more config and hassle than what I have time for right now.
I'd love something I can just turn on & off with openvpn or a different app, I'm not sure if there are options for that out there.
this is all incorrect - install tailscale on one node in your home network, enable subnet routing, voila, all done.
If your home router allows port forwarding, set it up to forward the port you use for wireguard to the pi. You can run wireguard on your laptop or whatever, using your router's external IP address and that port.
You can use a DDNS provider so you know what IP to connect to if it changes regularly (it'll be just your luck for it to change while you're on holiday).
If you really want to use an intermediate host to forward traffic, almost any will work as long as it's KVM, so just get the cheapest that's got a low ping to your house or low ping to where you are travelling to. To forward between 2 wireguard networks, you'll need to set them up on different interfaces, so set up e.g. wg1 for the link to your home net and wg0 for your laptop, or whatever.
If you use
PersistentKeepAlive = 60on one end, your link should remain up indefinitely (but you'll want to make sure you force it down if tethered to phone using mobile data to stop charges).When roaming, you don't need to worry too much about having the correct IP in the
Endpointsection, as wireguard will use whichever IP the last successful connection came from. The IP inEndpointis only used to bring up a remote link for the first time.Not sure what you meant by “a lot more config and hassle”. These steps are all you need:
If you want to route your traffic through your home network:
Pretty much that’s it.
Tailscale is the most set and forget software you could possibly get at the moment. A exit node is setup in like 5 minutes. The most config stuff you see on the website is for ACL and other stuff. They are great if you need them but not necessary.
Sounds like you want to setup your Pi as a Tailscale Subnet Router and skip the VPS. It's probably less effort to setup than configuring Wireguard on your Pi, VPS and client(s): https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets
I fucking love you guys, it worked. I gotta admit I was a bit intimidated by the config, but it works! It's a little slow, but it's free.
Thank y'all
This is a common use case for Tailscale. But if you don't want to install any VPN clients (including TS and/or WARP) that mess with your routing table, as you might want to connect to multiple overlapping private networks at the same time, you can just use cloudflared per connection, which is more flexible with a generous free plan, and actually open source!
Cloudflare is magic, I swear
Dang, is this a real hosting provider?
Regards.
If you have to ask, you should never click on suspicious emails.
Cloudflare Argo tunnel is the way to go baby go here
Completely free. you can expose virtually most known protocols (ssh , http) to internet. this gives you the power to bring your home network to inernet.