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Testing a minimal WireGuard VPN infrastructure (DE + US nodes)
Hi everyone,
I’ve been experimenting with building a minimal privacy-focused infrastructure project called NOKZ.
The idea is to keep the architecture intentionally simple and predictable while reducing attack surface and avoiding unnecessary data collection.
The current layer is a WireGuard-based VPN with entry nodes running in Germany (Frankfurt) and the United States.
The long-term goal is to build a multi-layer privacy infrastructure where the VPN acts as the first layer and additional network-defense components build on top.
Current setup:
Protocol: WireGuard
Locations: Germany (Frankfurt), United States
Architecture: minimal infrastructure design
Focus: reduced attack surface and predictable networking
This is still early stage and I'm mainly interested in feedback from people here who run infrastructure or VPN nodes.
If anyone wants to test the service or look at the design philosophy, the site is:
Would appreciate any feedback or thoughts.
- Network architecture8 votes
- Transparency75.00%
- Network architecture0.00%
- Minimal Logging0.00%
- Server jurisdiction25.00%
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i think this post violate the community rules
Interesting concept, but a few things stand out.
Running on DigitalOcean, a US based company, means your traffic passes through infrastructure you don't control, subject to US jurisdiction and potential legal compulsion. That's a significant trust issue.
Your Terms of Service mention account termination conditions that imply you can identify and act on user behavior. That's hard to reconcile with a no-logging claim. If you're truly not collecting data, how are you enforcing those terms?
The website also looks AI generated, which doesn't inspire confidence, and there's no open source code to verify any of the claims being made. For a privacy-focused project, transparency isn't optional.
It's the whole point.
"• privacy over marketing — no tracking, no noise" "no trackers" ... third party analytics included
"transparency" ... no source code, "We intentionally keep technical details private" lol
"infrastructure under our control" "controlled infrastructure" ... digitalocean vpses that can be ram dumped without warning
no private crypto accepted, transparency have severe technical misunderstandings about what nokz "can" see vs what nokz "intentionally collects"
I could be wrong but when I think about purchasing a VPN, my main want is privacy. That being said, laws are getting so advanced now that that's pretty much near impossible and therefore I don't really use VPNs from providers for privacy anyways - and since I'm not doing anything strange on the internet, I don't even bother with the VPNs - and that goes against most of what the opinions on LET would likely be. The thing is, we think we're sticking it to the big man when we use VPNs but we're just a drop in the bucket - they have more than enough user data to not care what we think.
I’m curious—can your NOKZ project bypass censorship? If so, I would consider recommending it on my project, https://Qilan.de
Would need to be on your own IPs / network for it to be mostly usable. Digital Ocean, Vultr, Hetzner, and other big player's IPs are all mostly already seen as high risk IPs for most websites. Just results in a lot of annoying CAPTCHAs and random security checks.
For example, since I'm in South East Asia mostly nowadays so I needed a good Singapore based VPN. Used different VPS provider's from here, Vultr, etc to setup a private Wireguard server for my self. Was a real pain in the ass, non-stop security checks everywhere. Since we're opening a Singapore POP sometime soon anyway, I went ahead and announced a /24 in Singapore (which is mainly just used at the moment for DNS / VPN development stuff) and those issues all went away. Currently just using Vultr for BGP, but since I'm using a clean IP space I'm not getting all the headache and hassle online that I was before.
With that said, any VPN provider that isn't being managed or owned by some Israeli tech firm is welcomed.
Everything about this screams a-v-o-i-d, not sure what you were thinking.