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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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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.

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.