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Hello! Does anyone have any experience with hosting your own VPN? I'm looking to try to set one up for my family and so far I've found a few open source implementations for SSTP servers, but I'm not exactly sure what to look for for hardware to run it on. The biggest things I am trying to consider right now are power efficiency and cost. Other things I am considering include potentially being able to run other useful servers in the future, so being upgradeable would be a plus. Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

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14 minutes ago, JP138233 said:

Hello! Does anyone have any experience with hosting your own VPN?

Setting up Wireguard using PiVPN (doesn't need to be a Raspi host) is pretty painless. You'll have to make a profile for each device.

 

15 minutes ago, JP138233 said:

but I'm not exactly sure what to look for for hardware to run it on.

Pretty much anything from a Raspi on up. As long as you're not expecting gigabit VPN speeds (then you might need some intentional hardware choices).

Main System (Byarlant): Ryzen 7 5800X | Asus B550-Creator ProArt | EK 240mm Basic AIO | 16GB G.Skill DDR4 3200MT/s CAS-14 | XFX Speedster SWFT 210 RX 6600 | Samsung 990 PRO 2TB / Samsung 960 PRO 512GB / 4× Crucial MX500 2TB (RAID-0) | Corsair RM750X | Silicom (Intel) X540-AT2 10G NIC | Inateck USB 3.0 Card | Hyte Y60 Case | Dell U3415W Monitor | Keychron K4 Brown (white backlight)

 

Laptop (Narrative): Lenovo Flex 5 81X20005US | Ryzen 5 4500U | 16GB RAM (soldered) | Vega 6 Graphics | SKHynix P31 1TB NVMe SSD | Intel AX200 Wifi | Asus 2.5G USB NIC | Asus ProArt PA278QV | Keychron K12 Blue (RGB backlight)

 

Proxmox Server (Veda): Ryzen 7 3800XT | ASRock Rack X470D4U | Corsair H80i v2 | 64GB Micron DDR4 ECC 3200MT/s | 4× WD 10TB / 4× Seagate 14TB Exos / 8× WD 12TB (custom external SAS enclosure) / 2× Samsung PM963a 960GB SSD | Seasonic Prime Fanless 500W | Intel X550-T2 10G NIC | LSI 9300-8i HBA | Adaptec 82885T SAS Expander | Fractal Design Node 804 Case

 

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Media Center/Video Capture (Jesta Cannon): Ryzen 5 1600X | ASRock B450M Pro4 R2.0 | Noctua NH-L12S | 16GB Crucial DDR4 3200MT/s CAS-22 | EVGA GTX750Ti SC | UMIS NVMe SSD 256GB / TEAMGROUP MS30 1TB | Corsair CX450M | Viewcast Osprey 260e Video Capture | TrendNet (Marvell 88X3310P) 10G NIC | LG UH12NS30 BD-ROM | Silverstone Sugo SG-11 Case | Sony XR65A80K

 

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Network:

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                         ┌─────────────── Office/Rack ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
Google Fiber Webpass ──── UniFi Cloud Gateway Max ═╦═ UniFi Flex XG ══╦═ Veda (Intel X550-T2.1)
(500Mbps↑/500Mbps↓)  (Asus USB 2½G NIC) Narrative ═╬═ La Vie en Rose  ╠═ Veda-NAS (Intel X550-T2.2)
                     (uni USB 2½G NIC) Doven Wolf ═╝  (Proxmox)       ╟─ UniFi Switch 8-60W ─┬─ Veda (IPMI)
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝                      └─ La Vie en Rose
║ ┌── Closet ───┐    ┌─────────────── Bedroom ────────────────────────────────────────┐
╚═ UniFi Flex XG ═╦╤═ UniFi Flex XG ═╤╦═ Byarlant (Silicom Intel X540-AT2)
           (PoE)  ║│                 │╠═ Narrative (Cable Matters 2½G NIC w/ USB-PD)
   Kitchen Jack ══╣└─ Dual PoE ┐     │╚═ Jesta Cannon* (Trendnet Marvell 88X3310P)
      (Testing)   ║┌─ Injector ┘     └── Work Laptop (Startech USB-PD Dock)
        Bedroom ══╝│
        Jack #2    │        ┌──────── Media Center ───────────────────────────────────┐
                   └──────── UniFi Switch 8 ────┬─ UniFi Access Point nanoHD (PoE)
Notes:                                          ├─ Sony PlayStation 4 
─── is Gigabit / ═══ is Multi-Gigabit           ├─ Pioneer VSX-S520
* = cable passed from Bedroom to Media Center   └─ Sony XR65A80K (Google TV)
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Run full scale Linux server 24x7 for everything, also for OpenVPN, Nextcloud, surveillance, offline backups and many other services. If your needs is not sow demanding, you can start with Pi 3, its consumption is about 3W, costs about €0,60/month

 

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I have 2 VPN's. I run Wireguard on my Router; I also have Tailscale on my Raspberry Pi. 

I have a RPi4 with Ubuntu 24.10 which I have docker-ce installed with portainer for managing containers. I then just use docker containers to host the apps to make it easy to maintain. 

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