Enhance your Security and Privacy: Deploy your own WireGuard Servers

We all know about VPNs and how they are provide security and privacy, but what if you could easily setup your own servers and controls the keys and encryption levels for additional protection?

Want a $100 credit to deploy as many VPNs as you would like? Click the link below! => https://www.vultr.com/?ref=9506937-8H

Pick your server provider.

In this case we will be using vultr as it’s easy, cheap and offers a wide range of locations.

1. I like to use AMD as these are newer and have instructions sets that deal with encryption and decryption very well so your VPN runs faster.
2. Locations don’t really matter, just know that further will add some latency .

1. Debian is my choice these days but any option will work.
2. OpenVPN is not multi threaded so 1vCPU is all that is needed and memory requirements are low.
3. No need to do backups unless you would like a quick restore.

1. Any label works. Just something to help you know what location and what it does

1. to access the server, click the triple dots and go to server details.

Access the server

1. Copy the IP, user and password and launch an SSH client.

1. Enter the IP address and click open

1. Say yes to the box and enter your username and password

1. Lets update the machine with apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y

Install WireGuard Server

1. We will use an OpenVPN install script as listed below. Either works and you just follow the onscreen setup.

=> https://github.com/angristan/wiregaurd-install

=> https://github.com/Nyr/wiregaurd-install

1. wget/curl the script of choice.
2. make the file executable.
3. run the script.
4. accept the IP address to listen too.
5. set the interface
6. set interface name
7. set the Ipv4 server IP
8. set the IPv6 Server IP
9. set the port number
10. set the DNS IP to use
11. set backup DNS IP

set the client name when promoted and then note the config file name.

cat the file name and copy and paste that into into client.conf

1. navigate to WireGuard.com to download the client
2. download the client

load the config file or profile to use

Activate the connection

You can now browse the web from a different location as desired.

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