How to Make an Open VPN Server on Raspberry PI
What is a VPN server.
The VPN server is a computer that is in another place on the Internet, which when you connect is forming an encrypted tunnel. While using the VPN server, your service provider can not figure out what kind of traffic you do, which sites you visit, etc.
In addition to the service provider, hackers who are lurking on your network can not figure out which sites you visit, what passwords you use, etc.
How to Make an Open VPN Server on Raspberry PI
We talked about the advantages of the servers on other occasions, where we explained how many problems we might have when connecting to public wifi networks. With a simple application like WireShark you can scan the traffic of everyone connected to a network, and you can find passwords and other login data.
VPN public servers are not that safe.
Today is a lot of companies that offer VPN services, but we do not know who is behind these companies and what their interests are.
Why are some VPN services free?
Where it's free, it's clear you're paying differently. For example, on videotutorial.ro you can watch tutorials in addition to the tutorials showing different ads that are displayed by some companies that pay for those ad slots at the end of the month.
It's a classic model that has been running for a long time, and has allowed us to keep our site free of charge.
Open your eyes to free VPNs.
VPN services are not like websites to advertise everywhere. That's why it's pretty suspicious how they can work, given that a VPN server consumes more resources than a website, reported to each user.
Where do you get free VPN services?
Simply, FROM DATA COLLECTION. All traffic passing through the VPN server is passed through the proxy cache, which saves all metadata.
Data collection is the best deal for IT companies at the moment. Look at Microsoft, which focuses on data collection more than ever.
Cambridge Analytica - people don't see or understand!
Take a look at the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which was hired by Trump's team to make "holes" in the brains of several million users to replace their cultural baggage. I repeat, as you may not have understood:
Cambridge Analityca Data Mining Professionals, using Facebook collected data, have built cultural profiles for each of the 50.000.000 users, from which they managed to collect data directly or indirectly (friends lists) using banal applications from Facebook app collection.
How did Cambridge Analytica's trickery work?
Using these profiles, they have made multiple sites, forum accounts, youtube accounts, and various videos on multiple topics. Depending on each cultural profile, users were directed to content specially created for them.
A specialist at Cambridge Analytica said:
In order to change political choices, you must first destroy the cultural beliefs of the users, and then plant other cultural values that will send them to the desired result.
Gone are the days of the tormented citizen, who asked “I vote with whom” Now you know with whom you MUST vote!
These are the new TRUISME factories!
Personally, I prefer to steal everything from my house and pockets, to drop me in the naked butt, to give me a punch in my mouth, than to manipulate me like that. Matrix not!
We come to wonder how our brain information is real, how many of our culture are, or whether our ideas are generated by our thinking or just taken over.
I think we need to go back to philosophy…
Why does the world not react?
Because people use Facebook, and every Facebook user is addicted to using networks. Because of this, exactly his drug or alcohol addiction, the user is a denial, believing that he has no problem with it and that it can not affect him, that only "he was in the USA, not with us" .
Let's go back to "How to make an Open VPN server on Raspberry PI".
To make an OpenVPN server on the Raspberry Pi we need a…Raspberry Pi.
Raspberry Pi is perfect because it is small, cheap, silent and economical. Running 24 / 7 will not cause any problems.
The VPN server will be OpenVPN installed through an automated script. Installation is extremely easy, and the user only intervenes at certain key points.
What is an Open VPN server good for?
1. Contacting home network
2. Connecting to surveillance cameras from home without having them accessed from the internet
3. Auto Backup of Phone Pictures with the SyncME application
4. Make Payments Safely When You Are On Public Wi-Fi Networks
5. Safely navigating to the shelter malicious applications
Who needs an Open VPN server
I'd say anyone would need a VPN server. Do not use it permanently but only in situations where there are doubts about the security of the connection.
Anyone could set up a VPN server at home, because a Raspberry Pi is pretty cheap.
Tools required.
SD Memory Card Formatter (for card formatting)
Etcher (to burn the image with raspbian on the SD card)
Picture of Raspbian Lite (without graphical interface)
WinSCP (for SFTP entry on Raspberry Pi)
PuTTY (for installing piVPN through SSH)
PiVPN (the official PiVPN site)
Related VPN server and VPN tutorials
How to make an Open VPN server on Raspberry PI - video tutorial
View Comments (35)
Can you make a tutorial about creating a web server on such a device?
It's no big deal, just install Apach web server. The problem is that a Raspberry web server will not bear a huge traffic because the resources are limited.
Cristi, you are doing a tutorial about routers, that is what router is worth buying in 2018
Asus, TP-Link or Microtik.
Hello Cristi, a sdcard of 8 gb is enough for a VPN server?
Yes, it is enough.
Hi Cristi & all
Where can you buy a Raspberry and what would be a good purchase (link)
If it can be complete (box, adapter ..etc) Thank you
Cristi, I want you to do more tutorials with IoT projects using Raspberry PI. Thanks!
I'm looking for a project on Rasbperry pi, a player playing at certain hours and a certain time. It would be useful to publish something like that.
Hello Cristi! Congratulations on the tutorial, very interesting. I have a question, maybe you could help me with an answer. I use a PPTP VPN server that runs in a DD-WRT router. From some locations (for example, in most airports) I can not connect to the PPTP VPN server at home because of the restrictions of WIFI networks in the airport. How can I get through these restrictions? Would OpenVPN work? Anticipated thanks for the answer!
OpenVPN might work. Especially because it goes to UDP, where PPTP works on TCP.
I do not get a hand in the fire, but it's worth trying.
Thanks for the answer. I'll try OpenVPN. All the best!
Hi, I see you use a 3 model B. How many clients do they support at the same time? Thank you
Hello
I have a vpn server on an asus rt n66u router this is better on raspbery pi 3 ??
can the server also be on an external hdd?