Create your own VPN
If you’ve been following along with this column for the last few months, we’ve been running a series on various types of home servers, and the tools and techniques you need to set them up. This month we thought we’d look at an oft-overlooked but very useful type of home server: the home virtual private network (VPN) server.
What we’re talking about here is not what you might be thinking of when you hear ‘VPN’. The term VPN is most commonly associated now with commercial, subscription-based VPN services that can be used for security and anonymous access to websites. Those are VPNs run by a third party that you pay to access.
