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VPS specs good for a personal VPN
Advice on VPS specs good for a personal VPN please!
I am 100% newbie and have zero knowledge on VPS. So please give me the detailed advice in layman’s terms.
Optimal VPS specs for a Softether VPN server:
cpu core
RAM/vSwap
storage: disk space (for a personal VPN, does SSD make a difference?)
IPv4/IPv6: (does shared IPv4 affect connection speed? How important is IPv6?)
recommended OS: 32 bit or 64 bit?
I am more interested in the optimal requirements than the minimal ones. I don’t want to pinch a few pennies and get frustrated by the limitation. While I have several devices (1 pc, 1 mac, 1 windows tablet, 1 iphone, 1 ipad, 1 android phone, 1 android tablet and one dd-wrt router) I use only one actively most of the time. If simultaneous connection of several devices bogs down VPS resources, I can disconnect all the idle ones.
TIA!
Thank all of you for your advices! Now it seems most of the LET offers are adequate for a personal VPN.
Regarding the OS choice, is Debian 32 bit minimal the best choice (lightweight, small footprint and efficient) for a Softether VPN?
Finally, does shared IPv4 affect the connection speed? If not, it seems setting up VPN servers on a bunch of cheap VPSs with shared IPs in different locations is a good choice.
Again, TIA!
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1CPU core, 128MB RAM and 2-3GB should work just fine
for vpn, the most important thing is to have a optimal connection to the vpn + the destination you want to reach to, spec normally do not matter, as joodle mention any 128mb ram vps should be enough for a few device.
64MB here
16mb ram is probably enough ram for something like a personal vpn, but 32mb just to be safe! 2GB hdd, 1 cpu core, maybe get a few hundred GB of bandwidth
Same.. But that's not @ Softether. I found out that Softether uses more RAM than OpenVPN. When i was using Softether the VPS uses about 80-90MB RAM if i remember correctly (this is more than 5-6 months ago).
Most Linux distros need around 64MB RAM nowadays...
And how about disable & enable TUN/TAP ?
Is every VPS have this features ?
Most providers offer to enable / disable TUN/TAP and or PPP. But thats only needed when having an OVZ VPS, not needed when using KVM or Xen.
I use a 64MB RAM NAT VPS from deepnetsolutions ($1.80/year) for VPN, DLNA and proxy.
Really? Have you tried Debian minimal? Less than 15MB fresh installed.
Do you know how to setup Local Bridge on a NAT IPv4 VPS?
SecureNAT is easy to setup but slow.
at a min. i have it running with a local bridge and its using nearly 200MB!
Thank all of you for your advices! Now it seems most of the LET offers are adequate for a personal VPN.
Only under OpenVZ, try installing Debian minimal on a 64MB KVM container, kernel panics everywhere. The installer will complain with anything less than 98MB last time I tried.
Basically.