We don’t have a server. We need it to be P2P. The entire reason we need a VPN is because we don’t have a server. We just want to play Minecraft. We used to use Hamachi, but we can no longer do this because my friends live in a college dorm and they block Hamachi.
Honestly I’d set up a dual core digital ocean droplet on the hourly plan and just host it on there.
$0.06 an hour is pretty cheap. Just shut the vm down when you are done to save money. Get a $20 visa gift card from Walmart or something and call it a day with digital ocean this apparently doesn’t work this way.
It’s all a matter of the money value of time. Is it worth more than $5/mo worth of your time setting up a P2P multi-NAT-punching VPN for a bunch of Windows plebes? Get the VPS.
badvpn and vpncloud: I can’t find a download page for a Windows client, just a bunch of repos and source codes. My friends are not smart enough to compile software. They’d rather bug me to switch to Windows so that we can just use Evolve.
freelan: “We will use the command line to generate our certificates.” This is too complicated for my friends too.
n2n seems to be dead: “we currently have no time to further develop n2n (we have put the project on hold until we have time to work at it again)”
peervpn: The setup guide has this in it “ifconfig4 10.8.0.2/24 initpeers node-a.example.com 7000” so I assume this requires the forwarding of ports, and therefore it won’t work for us. Well it definitely won’t work for us since it doesn’t support Windows: “PeerVPN is available for Linux and FreeBSD.”
Well you can create a snapshot and destroy the vm. Just shutting it down costs you because they keep the ip address, storage and RAM reserved for the VM.