I am already using a vpn service. However, for redundancy, I am thinking of setting up a computer that will serve as a vpn router from home abroad.
After some research, I had my eye set up on this refurbished HP from Amazon.
View: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q1DL6LV/?coliid=I157S2KADTF9D5&colid=2G2DW1OS5NTCJ&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
The way I was thinking about this setup was running it in a windows environment and just setting up OPENVPN or something.
However, today, I was browsing through my vpn provider's webpage and I found that they are selling specialized VPN routers: Like this:
https://privaterouter.com/product/intel-celeron-2-8ghz-4gb-openwrt-docker/
Or this:
https://privaterouter.com/product/intel-celeron-2-3-ghz-6gb-ddr4-128gb-ssd-openwrt-docker-router/
It seems to me that the ready made solutions have worse hardware and they have a steeper learning curve if I want to understand everything that they offer. OTOH, they save me from the hustle or setting up things myself and they would be easier to get things going.
There might be other tradeoffs, but I can't see them. Which way should I go?
PS. I am assuming that all machines can be converted to lowly home office computers after their VPN duties are done.
After some research, I had my eye set up on this refurbished HP from Amazon.
View: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q1DL6LV/?coliid=I157S2KADTF9D5&colid=2G2DW1OS5NTCJ&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
The way I was thinking about this setup was running it in a windows environment and just setting up OPENVPN or something.
However, today, I was browsing through my vpn provider's webpage and I found that they are selling specialized VPN routers: Like this:
https://privaterouter.com/product/intel-celeron-2-8ghz-4gb-openwrt-docker/
Or this:
https://privaterouter.com/product/intel-celeron-2-3-ghz-6gb-ddr4-128gb-ssd-openwrt-docker-router/
It seems to me that the ready made solutions have worse hardware and they have a steeper learning curve if I want to understand everything that they offer. OTOH, they save me from the hustle or setting up things myself and they would be easier to get things going.
There might be other tradeoffs, but I can't see them. Which way should I go?
PS. I am assuming that all machines can be converted to lowly home office computers after their VPN duties are done.
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