VPN.ac
Very happy for quite a few years now. Before that rotated through quite a few.
Reasons=
Romanian court over ruled EU’s 6 month data retention policy.
6 wireguard connections.
~€46 per year.
Small team of good dudes. I can’t stand the support vibe from big companies.
I’ve been using CyberGhost for about 5 years. I’ve been pretty happy with them and I believe they do have an option for a static IP.
VPN uses (almost) 0 resources other than bandwidth, and can be hosted easily on the cheapest cheap cheapycheap-cheap VPS you can find. I ran one on a $5/mo unlimited-bandwidth VPS for ages. you could probably find even cheaper with a selection of countries to choose from with a bit of googling…
Why pay someone else when you can selfhost it yourself?
I host my own VPN on a VPS. This way I am sure all the logging is truly disabled.
I use my home router as a VPN server.
I have Proton Unlimited, so got the VPN included.
Otherwise I would use Mullvad
I don’t think you can go wrong with NordVPN, Proton or Mullvad. I find Nord and Proton have better speeds.
My own Ubiquiti VPN on the USG I have in my rack. #selfhosted
None of your business! Who are you, a cop?
Did you forget what subreddit you’re in? This is /r/selfhosted not /r/hosted
Go set up your own VPN already, this isn’t the place for this, despite people in this sub likely having something to say.
edit: Why are you downvoting? I’m actually right here, this is actually against the rules. I’m not trying to attack anyone or say anything unreasonable here. The point of rules for things like this is for posting quality.
A security agency gathering info on the most popular VPN companies for “techies”/tinkerers?
Hmm …
I was with mullvad for a year and the speeds sucked, nordvpn for a few years now and the speeds are great - and I always keep the mesh net feature on my devices so I can remote in without opening ports.
I don’t even really use the vpn service anymore though, just the mesh net. I will probably not renew when my year is up.
Mozilla VPN (basically mullvad)
Kaspersky because it’s part of my $3/month antivirus… split tunnel kills my self-hosted docker stuff, and essentially isn’t really split tunneling, but yeah
OVPN. They have dedicated ip with port forwarding
Surfshark. Been using them for over 4 years. Aside from this I have OpenVPN running on my server to access my services over the internet.
I’ve been using PIA for a good few years now, never had a problem with them, slightly concernced that I appear to be pretty much the only one, does everyone else know something I don’t?
I use protonvpn due to me getting it with my proton unlimited bundle, and on the plus side with some scripting I can use the proton NAT-PMP forwarding with my qbittorent to get port forwarding while… distributing and acquiring Linux isos.