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Re:Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need) by goodpoint on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:18AM (#29919456)
My VPS costs 2$/month.
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Re:Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need) by jerjerjer on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:39AM (#29920114)
How much traffic do you get? What software? OpenVPN is a resource hog.

I'm on a $10/year VPS with 100 Gb/month traffic. Not great, but not terrible.

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Re:Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need) by crtasm on Thursday January 13, 2022 @01:07PM (#29924275)
> OpenVPN is a resource hog.

Not in my experience. Using it now on a super budget VPS ($4/year), very little CPU/memory usage even when streaming video.

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