Running your own VPN on a VPS gives you a private, dedicated exit IP that no commercial VPN shares. The two protocols worth considering are WireGuard and OpenVPN. WireGuard is a modern, minimal protocol built for speed; OpenVPN is the mature, endlessly configurable veteran. Here is how they compare when you host them yourself. WireGuard vs OpenVPN at a glance FeatureWireGuardOpenVPN Codebase sizeAbout 4,000 line...
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Debian 12 "Bookworm" and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" are the two most popular Linux choices for a VPS. They are closely related - Ubuntu is built on Debian and both use the APT package manager and systemd - so the real question is not "which is better" but "which trade-off fits your server": Debian's conservative stability, or Ubuntu's newer packages and commercial support. Debian 12 vs Ubuntu 24.04 LTS at a...
Read more →AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux are the two leading free replacements for CentOS. Both appeared in 2021 after Red Hat moved CentOS to the rolling CentOS Stream, and both are free, enterprise-grade, RHEL-compatible rebuilds with 10 years of support. For a VPS they behave almost identically - the real differences are who backs each project and how closely each one tracks Red Hat Enterprise Linux. AlmaLinux vs Rocky Linu...
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