I would recommend just using a RaspberryPi and host it yourself. I never had any issues and it was the most reliable way for me
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I second this. Pivpn is very easy to setup.
I'm using OpenWRT and liking it so far, find a suitable router and have full control of your network
I can second this. The only issue out of the box from my experience was getting speeds over 100Mbps working over WiFi, takes a bit of configuring (at least it did for my router).
Do you have any other requirements for the router? Or just to be able to run a VPN? When you say VPN, are you looking just to encrypt your home network (create your own VPN) or to use a paid service? E.g. VPN client or server?
I'm looking to dial in my home to reach some servers I expect to have running there. I could go the raspberry way, but I'd prefer it to be a router. I have some cloud servers for my own development that I'd like to host myself And maybe one of those services would be exposed.
Most decent routers should support that. I personally use a Unifi Dream Machine which I can't fault. Previously used a Nighthawk router which also supported it.
I created mine using "Edgerouter X". Wireguard VPN. But I don't use it a lot because I'm currently WFH.
I really liked this router.
Oh I'm going to take a look. Thanks!
Just one clarification. It is not an easy router like D-Link, TP-Link etc. It is more advanced.
And Ubiquiti has updated the firmware since 2015
Why do you need a VPN and not a reverse proxy and dyndns?
My setup uses some docker containers to:
- Update my WAN IP with cloudflare every 60s
- Nginx proxy manager to map URLs to services running on my host server
- Port forwarding to route traffic to the correct container
- Cloudflare zero trust or baked in app authentication
Looking forward to use some services that cannot be routed through nginx
Take a look at Tailscale. You can probably do what you want using that and basically any router out there since it's zero-config in the router, you're hardware independent.
I use tailscale currently. It's amazing, but I need just a little bit more
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