{"id":20269,"date":"2017-04-05T02:25:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/?p=20269"},"modified":"2019-12-27T06:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:49:27","slug":"how-to-setup-your-own-personal-cloud-vpn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/how-to-setup-your-own-personal-cloud-vpn\/","title":{"rendered":"How to setup your own personal cloud VPN"},"content":{"rendered":"
Surely you’ve heard about the services of Amazon<\/a> EC2, Rackspace and the like. Maybe you have even used some. Personally, I sometimes need a personal VPN server. For these purposes, I have long held a micro-instance on Amazon, provided by them during the first year free of charge. Plus, I used Amazon Glacier for archives, which can also be considered almost free with its price of “1 cent per gigabyte per month”. But the year is over and EC2 has to be paid. My archives also grew pretty well and the costs for Glacier likewise ceased to please.<\/p>\n I was very wrong. Below you will learn on how to set up a cloud VPN <\/a>server on the basis of DigitalOcean.<\/p>\n There are dozens of instructions on how to set a cloud Linux VPN server on the Internet. The script is guaranteed to work on an image of Ubuntu 12.04 x64 Server which is given by DigitalOcean. Installing and Configuring a VPN Server. Just run it, it will ask for the login \/ password for the VPN user and it’s ready.<\/p>\n You can set this all at the cheapest instance of DigitalOcean<\/a> (for $ 5 per month), one active VPN connection will load the processor by 4-6% and leave 60% of the virtual RAM free. We already see savings, because even a micro-instance on Amazon costs about $ 15 a month, and here you have only $ 5. But that’s not all.<\/p>\nSetting up Cloud VPN:<\/h3>\n