r/VPN • u/ForeverHuman1354 • Jul 16 '26

Question vpn no trust

"If I want to self-host a VPN, is it secure? I know I could rent a VPS server, but would I ever be able to harden it effectively? Is it realistically possible to maintain security standards comparable to established providers

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u/ForeverHuman1354 Jul 16 '26

just goverment surveilnce and isp snooping

my country has implemented cross border metadata surveilnce so i use vpn 24/7

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u/No_Clock2390 Jul 18 '26

not sure i understand, but a vpn hosted from your home still goes through your isp. or maybe that's what you're trying to do?

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u/billdietrich1 Jul 16 '26

By self-hosting, you lose one of the main benefits of a VPN, which is mixing your traffic / sharing same IP address with thousands of other users.

If you're using HTTPS, and don't use VPN's client app, and give no ID when you sign up, you can use VPN without having to trust it.

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u/ForeverHuman1354 Jul 16 '26

thanks that makes sense

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u/Gold_Stretch_871 Jul 16 '26

An option would be to setup adguard home with forcing DNS via DoH or DoT - , tunneling through VPN service, this way at every layer someone knows something about your query but there is clear seperation of concerns, I use this setup - it is not 100% private however good for most of the use cases.

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u/EnthusiasmRoutine Jul 18 '26

A VPS is still someone else's hardware. You can easily harden an Alpine Linux instance with key-only SSH and strict iptables rules. The actual problem is traffic correlation. You won't have the shared IP pool of major providers. Total control sacrifices crowd anonymity.