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Is there a point to hosting your own vpn? what does it actually do to help privacy? serious question, just wanting to know what it will actually do. i understand why people use a vpn host but i don’t exactly want to go from my iso knowing what i’m doing to a vpn host knowing what i’m doing. i would not use it to access my home network outside of range.

Is there a point to hosting your own vpn? what does it actually do to help privacy? serious question, just wanting to know what it will actually do. i understand why people use a vpn host but i don’t exactly want to go from my iso knowing what i’m doing to a vpn host knowing what i’m doing. i would not use it to access my home network outside of range.

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It does no good to host it from your home other than if your trying to secure incoming traffic from external sources. Like if you want to access some resources on your home network from an external site or location. If your trying to mask the content your looking at it has to be a server hosted offsite and even then its no grantee even if the server runs off a ram drive and keeps no logs because the can monitor their incoming traffic on the layer below you at the infrastructure level. VPN is only really good at preventing low hanging fruit from figuring out your identity. Antifa thugs and low level enforcers like that.

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Ok thanks. That’s what I figured.

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VPN tunnels the data from your pc at home to some other server in an encrypted manner. So you would need some VM or hardware in a data center to do so. Instead of your ISP knowing what you're doing it would be your data center knowing what you're doing.

The advantage of a VPN is they have thousands of such machines all over the world.

Maybe check out the VPNs offered by Rob Braxman?

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Yes I understand that. I was talking about a diy home server.

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In what sense is that still a VPN if your data isn't leaving your home encrypted? I don't see what you'd be accomplishing.

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That was the question. Would there be a point to having a vpn server on your home network other than to access the network from outside.

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That's not how VPNs work

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Well this was a helpful response. Maybe actually explain your point?

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So, there are a few different types of VPN. The one that I think you are concerned about is one to help obfuscate your traffic/Browsing history on the ISP your using. This is usually a subscription based service provided by a VPN provider, they provide an application you install and run on your computer (some vendors can provide more advanced options depending on your tech level) and pay a charge for the service (there are browser based VPNs but wouldnt put too much faith in them, I occasionally use the Dissenter/Brave browser and that has a "Private window with TOR" option which can be handy). The application then adds in a network adaptor that redirects your traffic through their servers which shows as your IP address. I wouldn't take this as a free ticket to start spamming Boris Johnston into oblivion with rare pepes or ordering hits on the dark web as VPN companies say they don't log things, but who can be sure?

Setting up a VPN to your home address does exactly that, Creating an encrypted tunnel back to your home network. This allows secure transfer of files from anywhere in the world but that traffic is still logged at an ISP level.

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