Just the headline. I am trying to find a good VPN for business use for sensitive websites that may or may not approve of me being in the Philippines.
If really sensitive you could setup a PC at friend or families house in the US and use Remote Desktop to access it.
How sensitive? Government agencies with 3 letters? Generic businesses?
Pretty much any of the major ones will be more than fine for the average person who needs to geospoof their location, but I wouldn’t recommend trying to fool the CIA with them.
This is the most commonly asked question in r/digitalnomad so you might do a search there since there are thousands of comments that already address VPN use and how to completely lock your machine down (and phone, if you use it to access work servers in any way).
If price is a factor you could do the three dollar a month plan with Windscribe, or shell out more for a big name. After all, it would be a little silly to cheap out too much on the thing that you’re using to earn your income with.
I have used them for years. Currently, using Proton, but I hear Mullvad VPN is very good.
More and more websites are using blocking to keep out troublemakers. So being able to switch into that country fixes that.
Benefits of a VPN
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Local ISP cannot see what you are doing. They cannot collect your credit card or banking info.
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In many cases the pages load faster because the DNS comes from the VPN not the local ISP. DNS is difficult, and rarely do the locals shine in this area.
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No problem with Paypal, Amazon, USA bank or any others.
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Search results are different based on your location.
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Social media shows where you are connected from, so VPN makes you look like you are in Chicago or LA or whatever.
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By switching connections, I can order from Chemist Warehouse in Australia and have it delivered to an AU address.
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Works well for Upwork, Fiverr and many others.
Setup a VM with AWS. Use the free version. 
Pay for usage.
I’ve used ExpressVPN and NordVPN and so far Nord seems to work really well for sites with geo restrictions.
ExpressVPN was quite unreliable.
Witopia. Which I think has a holiday sale right now. It was faster than using regular internet in the Philippines which shouldn’t be possible but I promise you was true.
Keep in mind someone could tell I’m using VPN.
Express VPN works for me
I found ExpressVPN as the best and smoothest VPN service while in the Philippines. I was able to use multiple streaming services and even got Disney+ at the time, when they didn’t have Disney+ here in Manila at the time. It’s not perfect but I’m able to use my US based services with ease in Manila.
I would say so. It’s pretty solid. But of course it’ll have its glitches. They offer a number of VPN IP addresses throughout various cities in the US. You can swap around if some sites are giving you trouble. Just as long as you have fairly fast internet speeds while in the Philippines.
I use CyberGhost very reliable but just use for streaming and web access to sites that freak out with foreign traffic
Or use it as a proxy for your own traffic
I m talking like banking and similar…insurance…etc. I work for similar companies online.
You may want to look up how secure websites work. The idea that you can somehow look at what people are doing on a secure website is the stuff of films and TV shows. If you look at a banking website, you will see a lock in the upper right hand corner, this indicates that the site is secure.
In addition, VPN providers do get hacked (Nord VPN) so if there was a way to sniff the traffic, it would be even easier to sniff VPN traffic.
Look for the YouTube video “Stop using VPNs for privacy” also “Why VPNs are a waste of your money”
Yes, there are some valid uses for VPNs, but many banks will ban you for using a VPN, I accidentally connected to Schwab using a VPN and they warned me not to do it again.
Works best for me. I tried a few others. Buy the personal IP address because if you’re using the normal service, their IPs are blocked on a lot of websites.
+1 on Nord. My friend collected unemployment while in PH and didn’t have any issues.
Also works with streaming.
I work remote but my work programs don’t work outside of California. We want to travel to the Philippines for a few months. Would you say I can work regularly with this VPN?
That might get a little trickier if there are any kind of banking laws that prohibit customer or client data from being exported offshore/outside of the USA (or your home country). Same wirh personal health information. Worst case scenario if they caught on to something like that might not be just getting fired, but court involvement. I would review your company policy very carefully, and also keep an eye out for what it says about jurisdictional issues.
Probably the safest way would be up a personal computer in the USA at a friend or family member’s house and use something like TinyVPN to connect to that machine. If you use a commercial VPN they generally indicate that your IP is coming from a data center. Assuming work cares enough to look. If you use one that’s routed from your computer to a machine in somebody’s house it should register as a residential IP, which won’t be very suspicious in end of itself. You could also start using a VPN now to see if anybody says anything and continue to do so for however long it is until you move. No guarantees that would work but at least it should give you a starting point for where to look.
If it’s a provided computer you’ll probably need to get a VPN router.
ProtonVPN works for me in PH. It’s based in Switzerland (strict privacy laws), they don’t maintain any logs (have yet to hear any news of a subpoena that contradicts this claim), their premium plans bundle well with their email and cloud drive, works on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, iOS), etc.