I've wanted to setup my router with my VPN, but the only thing stopping me is that, AFAIK, some services won't work with most big VPN services - like Netflix.
I use iVPN and can't stream Netflix while connected.
I use iVPN and can't stream Netflix while connected.
1. Where are you hosting it, and do you ever get blocked from certain services or websites?
2. How much does it cost? Is it a fixed cost, or bandwidth-dependent?
3. What do your down/up speeds look like when connected?
I host mine on a DigitalOcean instance. The Streisand installer (bash script + Ansible playbook) has a number of built-in deployment targets (Amazon, DigitalOcean, Google, Linode, and Rackspace at the time I did mine), and you can further select which region you want. It costs $5/mo, though there would be a cost for bandwidth overage if you hit your limit for the instance size.
I have not done a speed test on it as I have always been constrained by my local connection more than the server's end. I use it only when traveling at the moment.
Maybe they do it to prevent anonymous attacks or something, I dunno, but it's quite annoying because they fail in very vague and unclear ways.