So…I’m not an IT expert…I dabble but enjoy learning. I’m wanting more security at home and on the go. I’ve got a SFF PC from work to use an an opnsense router. I also want to host a VPN service from the house(opnsense). I understand the obvious nature of using openVPN from outside the house and how that makes a secure, hopefully obfuscated, connection to home for anonymous interneting. This is where I lose it. How does hosting that VPN service help when interneting from home? Am I missing an extra piece? Or just a fundamental of what a VPN is?
How does hosting that VPN service help when interneting from home
It doesn’t
Hosting a VPN server is for you to access your internal network when you are elsewhere but need access to your LAN.
If you want to use a VPN when you are home (for whatever reason) then you either need to be hosting the VPN server elsewhere (in a region that allows whatever it is that your home connection does not) or pay for a service like windscribe which will allow you to appear to be in whatever region you desire