In my case, I already have a Pi that I bought way back in the fairy-tale times of 2019, and I wanted to try out WireGuard-mostly because I have managed OpenVPN before and found it. Something like a Libre Computer Le Potato should work in a pinch, without breaking the bank-though if you want faster networking, you'll have to pony up a little more cash, at least until the Pi shortage abates.Īnd PiVPN lets you pick one of two tried-and-true VPN stacks: OpenVPN or WireGuard.
PiVPN, luckily, runs on any other Pi-like device, though, as long as it's running a Debian or Pi-OS-like distro. Enter PiVPN: in the olden days, when Raspberry Pis could be found at your corner drugstore for $35, it was probably the cheapest way to get yourself a fully-self-hosted VPN, assuming you have a public IP address.
That's why I'm a 'self-hosted' homelabber, and why I try to find devices that don't leave my local network.īut that creates a conundrum: it is nice to be able to connect to everything from afar. As someone who has dealt with numerous security breaches for numerous services, I know not to trust 50 different cloud-connected devices in my home. Some people rely on individual cloud services from IoT vendors and have a bunch of apps to connect to each type of device independently. There are services I like to access remotely like my NAS with my giant media library, my edit server with all my active projects, and especially Home Assistant, which lets me monitor all aspects of my home. I am frequently away from home (whether on family vacation, a business trip, or out around town), but I have a number of important resources on my home network-as any homelabber does.
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