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VPS VPN / Proxy

michaelsmichaels Member
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Hello!
As your are all no doubt aware from the end of this year you will need to opt-in to access certain legal Internet content in the UK (ie porn). I don't want to tell my ISP I enjoy looking at this material let alone the UK government so.... I am thinking about setting up a proxy / VPN server in another European state. My question is what is the best solution for this? Proxy or VPN? If I go down the VPN route what spec VPS do I need? Should I look at the kimisurfi dedicated box? I have setup proxies and VPNs in the past (I currently have an American VPN for watching TV).

Thanks

Michael

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  • BlazeMuisBlazeMuis Member

    You can also use that VPN to watch the content you'd like to watch :)

  • michaelsmichaels Member

    It's not the fastest or most reliable service. Also slightly aware that America's Internet watching have been called into question recently too! I don't think the VPS is of a high enough spec so would be interested to hear people's thought on VPS VPN specs too.

    Thanks for the reply!

  • awsonawson Member

    Why not get a 64MB box in the UK from HTTPZoom? I don't think they'd filter porn.

    http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/httpzoom-6-67year-64mb-vps-in-uk-7month-2gb-in-arizona/

  • michaelsmichaels Member

    Can you run a VPN server on 64Mb of RAM?

  • SplitIceSplitIce Member, Host Rep

    64MB / Openvz (or 128mb KVM) should be more than enough for a VPN, just ensure you have a proper minimal image installed (no apache2 etc).

  • awsonawson Member

    @michaels said:
    Can you run a VPN server on 64Mb of RAM?

    Yep. I'm running OpenVPN perfectly fine. HTTPZoom has minimal templates.

    root@gb-1:~# ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  1.2  10604   844 ?        Ss   Jul24   0:02 init [2]
root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul24   0:00 [kthreadd/805]
root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul24   0:00 [khelper/805]
root      1419  0.0  2.7  58748  1776 ?        Sl   Jul24   0:00 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c5
root      1487  0.0  1.3  18832   872 ?        Ss   Jul24   0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root      1518  0.1  4.8  30756  3208 ?        Ss   Jul24   7:08 /usr/sbin/openvpn --writepid /var/run/openvpn.server.pid --daemon ovpn-server --cd /etc/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/server.conf
root      1554  0.0  1.8  49804  1240 ?        Ss   Jul24   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root      4829  0.1  5.4  71164  3564 ?        Ss   07:42   0:00 sshd: root@pts/0
root      4831  0.0  3.0  17836  2004 pts/0    Ss   07:42   0:00 -bash
root      4836  0.0  1.7  15260  1140 pts/0    R+   07:42   0:00 ps aux
root@gb-1:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:            64         41         22          0          0         34
-/+ buffers/cache:          7         57
Swap:           64          0         64
  • michaelsmichaels Member

    And you stream video and browse ok with that? :) awesome! Thanks. Might join all my VPSes up to a central VPN too then so management can happen 'internally' rather than on the Internet. Thanks again.

  • BluBoyBluBoy Member
    edited July 2013

    FWIW I'm happily running a multi-user PPTP VPN on a 32Mb VPS...

    $ uptime && free -m && df -h && ps auxw

    00:53:09 up 9 days, 23:51,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00  

    .    .    total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached  
Mem:            32         13         18          0          0          9  
-/+ buffers/cache:          3         28  
Swap:           32          1         30  

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on  
/dev/simfs            2.0G  501M  1.6G  25% /  
tmpfs                 3.3M   40K  3.2M   2% /run  
tmpfs                 5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock  
tmpfs                  13M     0   13M   0% /run/shm  

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND  
root         1  0.0  0.2   2068    84 ?        Ss   Jul17   0:04 init [2]  
root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul17   0:00 [kthreadd/741]  
root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul17   0:00 [khelper/741]  
root      1378  0.0  3.2  35080  1080 ?        Sl   Jul17   0:12 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c5  
root      1445  0.0  0.9   5764   316 ?        Ss   Jul17   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd  
root      1481  0.0  0.6   2344   228 ?        Ss   Jul17   0:00 /usr/sbin/cron  
root      1538  0.0  0.8   1896   268 ?        Ss   Jul17   0:01 /usr/sbin/pptpd  
root     18811  0.0  2.4   2008   796 ?        S    00:51   0:00 pptpd [#####]  
root     18812  0.0  4.0   3052  1340 pts/0    Ss+  00:51   0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd [#####]  
root     18819  0.0  9.1   8892  2984 ?        Ss   00:52   0:00 sshd: [#####]  
ABC      18821  0.0  4.6   8892  1516 ?        S    00:52   0:00 sshd: [#####]  
ABC      18822  0.0  1.6   1800   536 pts/1    Ss   00:52   0:00 -sh  
ABC      18869  0.0  2.8   2392   932 pts/1    R+   00:53   0:00 ps auxw

    (Admittedly, this is with only one user on VPN, and one user logged into the shell).

  • trexostrexos Member

    You could use LowEndSpirit 64MB NL VPS. Only 3€/year and works great for VPN. System + OpenVPN (1 user connected) needs 6MB ram :)

  • GunterGunter Member

    @trexos said:
    You could use LowEndSpirit 64MB NL VPS. Only 3€/year and works great for VPN. System + OpenVPN (1 user connected) needs 6MB ram :)

    Probably the most reliable ZNC and OpenVPN box I've ever had. it's a bit on the slow side in terms of network speed but it's still a amazing service for those who know how to use it properly.

  • trexostrexos Member

    Yeah, if you don't need specific ports, one of the most awesome offers on LE*

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