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Small Doubt regarding VPN
Let's say I buy a VPS from provider ABC. If I set up a PPTP VPN with OpenDNS or SSH tunnel with OpenDNS and use it, will the provider ABC have access to the sites and traffic I visit?
I know that the sites I visit will have the logs of the VPS IP accessing the website but I want to know if the VPS Provider would be having it as well?
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Of course, the provider can know to which IP addresses you are connecting.
So, its possible for the VPS providers to build profiles of its customers based on the sites they visit via the VPS network? Can you give some sample data on how this traffic looks like on the providers side?
@varwww while it might be possible, why would anyone care to do this? It's a lot of work for no benefit?
@rds100 Could be used for data mining and advertising or it could be sold to third parties. I was just worried as a VPS customer. Anyway thanks for clearing the doubt.
I recommend you to disconnect from the internet, if you are worried.
Ya, I was planning to leave all my belongings and meditate under a tree on a mountain.
PPTP is not considered secure anymore.
You can disable logs on a dedicated server, but the data center could potentially log all connections.
@varwww,
If not the VPS provider, the Datacenter or ISP's can do that as well.
If you start being paranoid, there's no end to it.
Yes i think the data center needs to follow some laws "time" about keeping logs.
Pretty much everyone along the traffic chain can log your traffic coming from the previous chain in the network.
E.g. as someone above you said - if your VPS provider is not logging, the data center may be logging, or if they are not - their upstream provider may be.