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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by Diederich on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:57PM (#22177252)
I've been using WireGuard on my Android phone for a good while now using a free digital ocean droplet via https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

It's fast. It's easy. You never have to think about it. It just works.

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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by therealmarv on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:04PM (#22177293)
Using myself a Wireguard road warrior install script:

https://github.com/l-n-s/wireguard-install

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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by TimTheTinker on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:08PM (#22177318)
> using a free digital ocean droplet

I can't seem to find any "free" option on their pricing page. Could you elucidate?

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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by Diederich on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:17PM (#22177393)
> Could you elucidate?

I sure can.

It looks like I'm using the $5/month 1GB/1CPU/25GB droplet running Ubuntu 18 LTS, and just imagined that I was using a free one.

Memory sucks.

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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by dboreham on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:53PM (#22177558)
An engineering approximation to free?
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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by nissarup on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:12AM (#22178461)
Assuming a spherical VPS in a vacuum...
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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by jchook on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:59AM (#22178163)
It’s free given sufficiently small values of 5
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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by zantana on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:14AM (#22182122)
I saw this from IBM which doesn't appear to even need a credit card. :0 https://www.ibm.com/cloud/free/ But I haven't checked it out yet.

I think that Azure and GCE have better free tiers than AWS, but I'm guessing the bandwidth metering may work against a vpn use.

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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by treesknees on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:28AM (#22181540)
I also do this, but with Linode. The only hangup I hit every once in a while is that some services will block access to VPS IP blocks due to spam/malicious traffic. E.g. occasionally I can't get Google search results while on VPN, or Pokemon Go won't connect as they block VPS providers to prevent spoofing.
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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by stjohnswarts on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:12AM (#22182082)
I see a lot more capchas which is annoying. Also paypal doesn't seem to work most of the time either, which is lame, as I use 2FA for any paypal transaction
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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by nathancahill on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:41AM (#22178060)
Do you have any issues with sites blocking the DO IP addresses? I ran this for a while and a number of sites block connections for coming from a data center.
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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by deanclatworthy on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:57AM (#22178148)
Yep. DO is industry-blacklisted by the consortium of online content providers who collude on VPN ip-ranges. BBC, Netflix, Sky all are blocking it.
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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by lima on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:18AM (#22179064)
DO is also commonly blacklisted for being slow to deal with network abuse.

I used to build a DDoS mitigation product and we would regularly see 50+ Gbps of inbound attacks originating from DO.

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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by kemonocode on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:41AM (#22179488)
If you want to set up a VPN from a VPS, consider something like LunaHost, it's what I use and I find less issues with it due to being far less known I'd guess.
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Re:WireGuard is now in Linus' tree by Diederich on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:55AM (#22181865)
While noting what the other commenters have said, I don't recall running into any blocks, though I don't visit the sites they mentioned.
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