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Comment by vbezhenar | Hacker News Reader

Just write simple script. Why this service is needed. Provisioning VPN server is not a rocket science.

I really thought this was a reference to the dropbox showhn - "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

But in this case it actually is a onliner to spin up a VPN and the relevant mobile/PC client apps are already there. One click deploy scripts are available for digital ocean, AWS, GCP, Azure etc. This OG Dropbox comment was too snarky, for a genuine use case, the solutions in those comments were actually complicated than using Dropbox, while spinning up your own VPN is actually safer and better wrt streaming services etc, not easy but serves the purpose in a safer and better way.

There are plenty of VPN users “intersect” never used the command line.

And maybe a smaller set like me who are geeks but prefer not to manage their own server even from a script. As if using such a script means no problems and you wont be googling for why x y or z isn’t working.

Mad haxorz skill?!?! I'm leet!

The ip space is what's valuable about a vpn service.

Yeah, soooo simple. I've spent the entire day trying to figure out how to run Algo and OpenVPN on DigitalOcean. With zero luck

Some of just don't like screwing with servers and are willing to pay a premium for that. I absolutly loathe managing servers.

I used to do Algo with a VM on GCP. But fly.io and tailscale has made this really simple. Try this if you are looking for an easier alternative https://github.com/patte/fly-tailscale-exit

Thanks, can I use this like a regular personal VPN - hook up my phones, machines and route through it?

surprised nobody's made a vpn app that just does that provisioning on demand on some service, optionally using the developer's affilliate code.

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