VPS VPN / Proxy

michaels

Hello!
As your are all no doubt aware from the end of this year you will need to opt-in to access certain legal Internet content in the UK (ie porn). I don't want to tell my ISP I enjoy looking at this material let alone the UK government so.... I am thinking about setting up a proxy / VPN server in another European state. My question is what is the best solution for this? Proxy or VPN? If I go down the VPN route what spec VPS do I need? Should I look at the kimisurfi dedicated box? I have setup proxies and VPNs in the past (I currently have an American VPN for watching TV).

Thanks

Michael

BlazeMuis

You can also use that VPN to watch the content you'd like to watch

michaels

It's not the fastest or most reliable service. Also slightly aware that America's Internet watching have been called into question recently too! I don't think the VPS is of a high enough spec so would be interested to hear people's thought on VPS VPN specs too.

Thanks for the reply!

awson

Why not get a 64MB box in the UK from HTTPZoom? I don't think they'd filter porn.

http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/httpzoom-6-67year-64mb-vps-in-uk-7month-2gb-in-arizona/

michaels

Can you run a VPN server on 64Mb of RAM?

SplitIce

64MB / Openvz (or 128mb KVM) should be more than enough for a VPN, just ensure you have a proper minimal image installed (no apache2 etc).

awson

@michaels said:
Can you run a VPN server on 64Mb of RAM?

Yep. I'm running OpenVPN perfectly fine. HTTPZoom has minimal templates.

root@gb-1:~# ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  1.2  10604   844 ?        Ss   Jul24   0:02 init [2]
root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul24   0:00 [kthreadd/805]
root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul24   0:00 [khelper/805]
root      1419  0.0  2.7  58748  1776 ?        Sl   Jul24   0:00 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c5
root      1487  0.0  1.3  18832   872 ?        Ss   Jul24   0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root      1518  0.1  4.8  30756  3208 ?        Ss   Jul24   7:08 /usr/sbin/openvpn --writepid /var/run/openvpn.server.pid --daemon ovpn-server --cd /etc/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/server.conf
root      1554  0.0  1.8  49804  1240 ?        Ss   Jul24   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root      4829  0.1  5.4  71164  3564 ?        Ss   07:42   0:00 sshd: root@pts/0
root      4831  0.0  3.0  17836  2004 pts/0    Ss   07:42   0:00 -bash
root      4836  0.0  1.7  15260  1140 pts/0    R+   07:42   0:00 ps aux
root@gb-1:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:            64         41         22          0          0         34
-/+ buffers/cache:          7         57
Swap:           64          0         64

michaels

And you stream video and browse ok with that? awesome! Thanks. Might join all my VPSes up to a central VPN too then so management can happen 'internally' rather than on the Internet. Thanks again.

BluBoy

FWIW I'm happily running a multi-user PPTP VPN on a 32Mb VPS...

$ uptime && free -m && df -h && ps auxw

00:53:09 up 9 days, 23:51,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00  

    .    .    total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached  
Mem:            32         13         18          0          0          9  
-/+ buffers/cache:          3         28  
Swap:           32          1         30  

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on  
/dev/simfs            2.0G  501M  1.6G  25% /  
tmpfs                 3.3M   40K  3.2M   2% /run  
tmpfs                 5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock  
tmpfs                  13M     0   13M   0% /run/shm  

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND  
root         1  0.0  0.2   2068    84 ?        Ss   Jul17   0:04 init [2]  
root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul17   0:00 [kthreadd/741]  
root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul17   0:00 [khelper/741]  
root      1378  0.0  3.2  35080  1080 ?        Sl   Jul17   0:12 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c5  
root      1445  0.0  0.9   5764   316 ?        Ss   Jul17   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd  
root      1481  0.0  0.6   2344   228 ?        Ss   Jul17   0:00 /usr/sbin/cron  
root      1538  0.0  0.8   1896   268 ?        Ss   Jul17   0:01 /usr/sbin/pptpd  
root     18811  0.0  2.4   2008   796 ?        S    00:51   0:00 pptpd [#####]  
root     18812  0.0  4.0   3052  1340 pts/0    Ss+  00:51   0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd [#####]  
root     18819  0.0  9.1   8892  2984 ?        Ss   00:52   0:00 sshd: [#####]  
ABC      18821  0.0  4.6   8892  1516 ?        S    00:52   0:00 sshd: [#####]  
ABC      18822  0.0  1.6   1800   536 pts/1    Ss   00:52   0:00 -sh  
ABC      18869  0.0  2.8   2392   932 pts/1    R+   00:53   0:00 ps auxw  

(Admittedly, this is with only one user on VPN, and one user logged into the shell).

trexos

You could use LowEndSpirit 64MB NL VPS. Only 3€/year and works great for VPN. System + OpenVPN (1 user connected) needs 6MB ram

Gunter

@trexos said:
You could use LowEndSpirit 64MB NL VPS. Only 3€/year and works great for VPN. System + OpenVPN (1 user connected) needs 6MB ram

Probably the most reliable ZNC and OpenVPN box I've ever had. it's a bit on the slow side in terms of network speed but it's still a amazing service for those who know how to use it properly.

trexos

Yeah, if you don't need specific ports, one of the most awesome offers on LE*