Question Recommendations for a VPN ?

[timlab1955]

I'm new to this place, but have a small quesiton. I'm running a website on my Raspberry Pi. But I've heard I need a VPN to do it. All I want to do is hide my public IP address. Which VPN would anyone recommend?

 

[Dashhh]

You don't need a VPN to run a site. Since you host it locally, you will have to configure it's network security locally as well. As far as VPN recommendations for personal use, I like Proton. They're based out of Switzerland, pretty transparent, and I've never encountered any bugs or had any issues with any of their products.

 

[Secret-Squirrel]

I'm running a website..........................I want to do is hide my public IP address.

How will anyone get to your website if you've hidden its public IP address? You don't need a VPN.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

This whole thing sounds very sketchy here. Just what sort of questionable activity are you trying to hide?

 

[bill001g]

You can not use a standard VPN to solve your problem. When you run a server of some kind you must expose some IP address. How can someone get to your server if it does not have a address that they can find.

You can if you choose not expose the public IP of your house but you then need a different public IP you do expose. You in effect must buy another internet account. Most times this is done by hosting your server on a virtual server in one of the hosting centers rather than running your own...ie the raspberry pi. There are VPN companies that will give/sell you a public IP that you can use for servers. These are specialized vpn companies not all offer this service.

I strongly suspect you have 2 option. If you are just messing around with web servers you use the raspberry pi and use your router to firewall it off from other machines in your house. If you are really going to run a web server buy it from one of the massive number of providers of this service and use the raspberry pi for something else. It may seem cheap at first to use a raspberry pi as a server but there is a reason no companies actually do this. Almost no companies run their own data centers anymore because of the costs. It is all cheaper to buy services from some "cloud" provider.