Beginner
How to Set Up Your Own WireGuard VPN on a VPS (Step by Step)
Renting a cheap VPS and turning it into your own WireGuard VPN gives you a private tunnel that nobody else shares - no monthly subscription, no com...
Guides: your own VPN server, step by step
From your first WireGuard on a cheap VPS to a two-hop chain and traffic disguised as ordinary HTTPS when the provider starts throttling VPNs.
Where to start
1
Pick a protocol
WireGuard is fast and simple, OpenVPN works everywhere, VLESS and Shadowsocks are for places where DPI cuts the first two.
How to Set Up Your Own WireGuard VPN on a VPS (Step by Step)
2
Set up the server
A cheap VPS, half an hour and a ready config. If the terminal scares you, there is an app-only route.
How to Set Up Your Own VPN with Amnezia (No Terminal Needed)
3
Close the traces
Turn logging off on the server and switch to obfuscation when DPI is active.
How to Make Your VPS Keep No Logs (Hardening Guide)
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How to Set Up Your Own VPN with Amnezia (No Terminal Needed)
Amnezia is the friendliest way to run your own VPN: a free app that sets up and manages the server on your VPS for you, over SSH, without a single ...
Beginner
How to Set Up Your Own Shadowsocks VPN with Outline
Shadowsocks is a lightweight encrypted proxy built to be hard for censors to detect, and Outline by Jigsaw makes running your own as simple as two ...
Reference
VPN Glossary: Terms and Features Explained
VPN sites are full of jargon. This plain-language dictionary explains the terms and features you meet when choosing or self-hosting a VPN - from ki...
Intermediate
How to Bypass DPI Blocking with VLESS + Reality (3X-UI Guide)
When a censor's DPI starts blocking plain WireGuard and OpenVPN, VLESS + Reality is the answer: it disguises your VPN as an ordinary visit to a rea...
Beginner
How to Set Up Your Own OpenVPN Server on a VPS (Step by Step)
OpenVPN is the mature, universally compatible self-hosted VPN, and its party trick is running over TCP port 443 so it slips through restrictive fir...
Advanced
Your Own Multi-Hop VPN: Chain Two WireGuard Servers
Route your traffic through two servers you control by chaining two WireGuard VPS into a private multi-hop VPN - the most private double-hop setup t...
Intermediate
How to Make Your VPS Keep No Logs (Hardening Guide)
When you run your own VPN, the privacy win is that no company logs your traffic. But a default Linux server still keeps its own records - system lo...
Beginner
How to Bypass DNS Blocks Without a VPN
Many website blocks are weaker than they look. Often your internet provider is simply refusing to turn a domain name into an address - a DNS block....
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