I Made my Own VPN. Was it Worth it? VPS vs VPN - Who Wins?

hey guys what is going on my name is Tom

spark welcome back to another video

today we're going to be talking about if

you should make your own VPN what are

the pros on the cons I've been on this

channel for around two or three years

talking about 60 plus vpns and I've

reviewed more than anyone on YouTube but

in this entire time I never really took

the time to make my own VPN provider

mostly because I had some ideas on what

the pitfalls would be however I'd

finally decided to set one up and see

how it would compare to actually buying

and using just the VPN provider in this

video I'm going to be talking about the

pros and cons so you can decide if you

maybe want to try it if you guys want to

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description to the server provider that

I'll be discussing in this video if you

decide you want to do this as well

alright guys so first of all let's start

talking about out you know what it

really means to start your own VPN

service so usually when you're buying a

consumer grade VPN something like tour

guard air VPN smaller vpns on my tier

list you're going to a website or

company and you're buying the access to

their service then you download an

application you log in with the

credentials and you're pretty much good

to go it's very simple pretty easy and

it's actually very new friendly nowadays

however when you want to set up your own

VPN what you're going to have to do is

use something called a VPS service or a

virtual private server now what are you

going to use the virtual private server

for well basically you're going to find

a company that will provide you this

it's going to be kind of in the cloud

you're going to get access to this

capability and it's going to have some

specs and stuff like that you're pretty

much going to use this server as kind of

like an external way to connect to your

own server there instead of paying a VPN

that has their own service they probably

for you're pretty much going to be

making your own so there are a lot of

different other websites out there that

provide VPS services for this video I'm

going to be talking about vulture

because after doing some research I

found that it's pretty much the cheapest

and kind of fastest VPS provider that

most people are setting up vpns with

another cool thing about vulture is that

you can install openvpn on it very

easily through the application setting

in their kind of command panel or

website interface and that's what I

ended up doing so the one of the cool

things about VPS is that they're a

little bit cheaper to start out than

let's say like a VPN provider it's

around 2 two dollars and fifty cents a

month

um one at a time I'm pretty sure you

don't have to pay bulk you know there

are some VPN providers that over exist

in the length of time it will roughly

equate to around 250 a month let's say

if you bought tour guard for two years

with my promo code Tom spark that would

be around fifty dollars for two years

which would actually equate to around

two dollars per month so it's it's kind

of Cheaper Than a lot of other options

out there though you know tour guard is

one of the cheapest vpns on the channel

which is why I always recommend it but

you know this VPS service vulture and

one of the cheaper plans that you could

get from it it is pretty cheap at around

two dollars and fifty cents a month

another cool thing with vulture is that

you can actually kind of gain free

access basically if you click on my

referral link down below you could get

like a hundred dollars credit that you

can use and then I'll get a small

cutback as well so it's almost like you

can use it for free for a certain amount

of time depending on how much data you

use it's kind of how it charges you that

amount so I was doing some testing today

and I think I used maybe like a dollar

of 100 credit so you can kind of get

more free access

um than perhaps you know a traditional

VPN which is going to limit you I'm

actually pretty severely you know most

of the free VPN providers out there

stuff like winscribe and proton they're

pretty limited only give you a couple

gigabytes so you can't really do much on

it however with this VPS kind of trial

thing I do think you have a little bit

more flexibility and you're not really

giving your information away to sketchy

VPN company now there are some other

cool things about vulture and these kind

of VPS Services

um that are not necessarily related

exactly to VPN let's say you got vulture

and you kind of started a server for VPN

you can also start and run another

server on the website very easily for

something like Minecraft or having some

kind of virtual machine on there which

is pretty cool as well you could do

whatever you want with that whereas VPN

providers don't really provide those

Services per se we've seen more and more

VPN providers kind of provide things

like password managers and file storage

and stuff but there aren't any VPN

providers really providing VPS Services

now the difference between a VPS and a

VPN you know how can you trust either

one with your information well

unfortunately I don't really think there

is that much difference some people say

you shouldn't trust a VPN provider

instead you should make your own VPN

with a VPS service but in that case and

in this case we're specifically trusting

vulture as a VPS hosting provider and I

don't really think there's that much is

that much difference between trusting a

VPN company in something like vulture of

course the way you could do it would be

to make your own server on a computer in

your house or something like that so you

directly own it but that's going to

require require more work and other

stuff as well as expensive that's not

going to be what's going to be happening

with vulture it's kind of like a

different ball game altogether but I

don't think it necessarily provides you

with more anonymity or more protection

legally than just buying a VPN from a

VPN company another cool thing with um

VPS is that when you're making your own

VPN you could do stuff like Linux

Terminals and you can pretty much enter

in custom commands and install stuff

like wireguard I tried to do this and I

was tinkering around with it today but

it can require a decent amount of

knowledge of Linux commands and stuff

like that interacting with a terminal

and text-based editors

um it can be a little bit complicated

um not only that but you're gonna have

to install wireguard on it with commands

and stuff like that it's definitely not

as easy as using wireguard on

traditional VPN providers it is pretty

cool that you can have some of that

flexibility and install it yourself I

would have preferred that vultra had a

wire guard application on their website

like the openvpn application but they

don't have that yet which is

disappointing another thing about

vulture or signing up with your own VPN

through a VPS is that you get like a

specific IP you get to pick like one

location and now this can be a downside

if you're someone who likes hopping

around with normal VPN providers however

having a specific IP and knowingly IP

always is can be useful when browsing

the internet certain websites might

start to recognize you and not lock you

out although I did have the problem of

certain websites like bitly and Netflix

not even working with a specific IP

which was actually a pretty big con

however you know baking websites if they

recognize this IP maybe they will start

letting you log in more so theoretically

it might be useful sometimes to have one

locked IP you can also buy additional

eyepiece as well on the website although

the cost starts to add up now one of the

things that I was surprised with vulture

is that when I actually went into the

control panel and just installed openvpn

as an application on my server it was

actually very easy to set up I just

entered in the URL code of my server and

then went to it installed openvpn and

then downloaded openvpn onto my computer

as an application and then I was able to

connect to the server it only took

around five to ten minutes and was

actually very easy much easier than

actually trying to set up wireguard in

my opinion but I still do think it's

actually easier to do it traditionally

with a VPN provider than having to do

that I do think it is easier just to

download a VPN application and log in

especially with some easy ones

um like expressvpn we just copy and

paste the code to log into the

application they make it super super

easy and I don't think it's as easy to

buy VPS service having to log in and

everything like that having to install

it go to the IP download install it's

just more work but it's not that bad

just for openvpn specifically I do think

starting your own VPN and kind of making

it and seeing some of the behind the

scenes through this process getting the

server and everything like that it can

be kind of fun and it was an interesting

learning experience for me as someone

who doesn't really go that far into kind

of that part of the tech now let's talk

about some of the cons just like it's

hard to decide which VPN to use there

are a lot of VPS providers and it's hard

to find which one is best although I do

think that vulture is probably one of

the higher regarded ones here that I've

been research searching that has pretty

good speeds and good prices now I do

think using a open VPN application on

vulture is pretty easy to use but it

doesn't have as much powerful features

as something like torguard or air VPN

some of these clients have advanced kind

of customization settings and cool

things like kill switches and other

customizations have built in that

doesn't exist with just openvpn I found

that like I mentioned already certain

websites didn't seem to work with my

specific IP unfortunately I couldn't get

any streaming service to work stuff like

Netflix wasn't even loading the page and

that's disappointing especially since

I've seen other people like Linus Tech

tips claim that by using your own VPN IP

they're not going to be able to detect

it and you're able to access streaming

sources better and my experience that

was simply not the case and a lot of

websites were having difficulties with

my VPN connected I don't think that

using vulture and setting up your own

VPN is very useful for torrenting

avoiding dmcas avoiding copyright trolls

and stuff like that if you want to

Pirate content because the dmca's

company is going to contact vulture and

they're going to pretty much know who

you are I think vpns themselves have a

cleaner privacy policies they're kind of

built for people that are using them

that way and they have kind of set up

the infrastructure especially some of

these companies that they do not collect

logs and stuff like that where would the

vultures privacy policy it's a little

bit more confusing exactly you know what

they're collecting on you what they will

give up when requested to do so so I do

not think that using vulture and just

because you're running your own VPN

means that you're not beholden to anyone

since you're still using a hosting

provider there still is liability that

could get you in trouble and get you

your name tossed around now one of the

biggest problems I had with my vulture

VPS server is since I got a pretty

affordable plan kind of in the same

range as a normal shared VPN or consumer

grade VPN like I mentioned I didn't get

very good speeds I was actually getting

pretty mediocre speeds actually very

slow probably by a factor one-fifth of

what I can get with something like tour

guard I was getting around seven to

eight megabytes second downloading a

torrent or torguard I could get around

30 to 40 megabytes a second not only

that but my ping was higher than normal

my download rate wasn't as good as I can

get with normal VPN providers

anyways guys that's some of my pros and

cons of setting up my my own VPN and if

I think it's worth it in conclusion for

people using consumer grade vpns like on

my tier one vpns I don't think it's

really worth it to start your own VPN I

would only really recommend doing it as

a kind of like a fun side project and

just kind of testing it around but for

people who are looking for a VPN to do

certain things like unbox streaming

services get really good speeds for

downloading torrents have the privacy

and nominity of a company that's

probably not going to give away

information and have good pricing I do

think that buying a consumer grade VPN

is totally 100 a viable option and it's

the one I prefer rather than setting up

my own VPN on a VPS service like vulture

however if you do want to try it out

again link down description down below

to try out vulture and setting it up

yourself and let me know down in the

comments down below if you want to do

this and if you want to guide sometime

in the future I could probably show you

how to set up one on vulture set up your

own openvpn service with openvpn let me

know if you're interested in that and

I'll maybe make a guy doing that I'll

see you again on the next video very

soon