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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Google has a VPN service now (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by paraphrand@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Knasen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Virtual Private Server, a virtual machine with a hosting provider

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What provider do you recommend? I've been looking for a VPS for playing around with some stuff that I can't run on my OSX server.

[–] Miyabi@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

Vultr is good, IMO.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Somebody mentioned Vultr. I'll add Linode, Digital Ocean as the bigger players. Obviously, there's the Cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP.

If you're on a budget/looking for the best value, look at Contabo, Hetzner (bit of a pain now, their processes and uptime) and Racknerd special deals on Lowendbox (can't beat this, but remember that you get what you pay for).