On: Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permissi...

[Freak_NL]

> A VPS from DigitalOcean or something beats most providers' pricing.

Does it? A VPN subscription costs around $40 a year, DigitalOcean starts from $60 a year for the lowest level standard droplet. Am I overlooking something?

[SturgeonsLaw → Freak_NL]

You can get a VPS for far cheaper than DO's prices.

https://lowendbox.com/

http://lowendspirit.com/

I'm currently posting through a VPN running on a VPS I discovered through Low End Box, works just fine for browsing and downloading. 500GB transfer per month for $10 a year.

[philliphaydon → SturgeonsLaw]

You could setup a free instance on AWS for 1 year then create a new account the following year.

[bostand → SturgeonsLaw]

How much can you trust these lowend box providers?

I talked to one guy who was utterly incompetent and another one who was really shady...

[SturgeonsLaw → bostand]

I trust them enough for my use case. Got one running as an OpenVPN server and another hosting a few small websites I've made for friends and family.

Would I trust them as a production server for an income generating app? Nope. But for my light/trivial uses they've been perfectly suitable.