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danvittegleoon Algo – Set up a personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud

I read your comment a week ago and fully agreed that I wanted something similar. So I built this: https://github.com/dan-v/dosxvpn

* It is an OSX packaged app that launches a GUI wizard and deploys to digitalocean, auto configures VPN on OSX, and spits out a mobileconfig file.

* It is based on CoreOS (not busybox) but it set to auto update the OS using A/B partitions.

* VPN docker image running on droplet is also configured to auto update

danvittegleoon Show HN: One click personal VPN server on DigitalOcean

Yes indeed. The majority of it could run on any system as it's written in Go, but the last portion dealing with VPN setup is OSX specific.

danvittegleoon Show HN: One click personal VPN server on DigitalOcean

This is a weekend project I started in light of the news that ISPs are now able to sell your browsing history. I'm not a huge fan of random VPN providers, and have been using a private VPS to run a VPN for a while now. I decided to turn it into an app that deploys a VPN server on DigitalOcean with automated OSX setup. The deployed VPN server includes automated updates of both the OS and VPN software, so you don't need to worry about managing a server. If you have OSX and a DigitalOcean account, grab the latest release here and try it out: https://github.com/dan-v/dosxvpn/releases

danvittegleoon [dead]

Thanks! Yeah, it definitely has potential to break some websites, although I haven't run into anything specific yet. Two scenarios where I know current code will break:

* Anything that requires a long lived HTTP connection

* If you get unlucky and you load part of a web page while proxy is moving over to a new Lambda function