Run a modern, kernel-space VPN you control. WireGuard is fast, audited, and tiny at under 4,000 lines of code. Pair it with a Pulsar67 VPS for a private tunnel with dedicated resources. From $3/mo.
Commercial VPN providers ask you to trust their no-logs policy. With WireGuard on a VPS you control, the logs are visible in journalctl and can be disabled by you.
Bypass geo-restrictions, secure your laptop on hotel Wi-Fi, route IoT traffic through a clean exit, or build a personal mesh with WireGuard's peer-to-peer model. The endpoint is yours, the keys are yours, the logs are yours (or aren't).
WireGuard runs in the Linux kernel since 5.6. Throughput can approach line-rate on a properly tuned Pulsar67 VPS.
The whole codebase is <4k lines and the server uses single-digit megabytes of RAM. Pulsar Nano handles dozens of peers.
ChaCha20, Poly1305, Curve25519, BLAKE2s. Few configuration knobs means fewer ways to get it wrong.
Stateless protocol survives IP changes. Walk from Wi-Fi to LTE and the tunnel can continue cleanly.
WireGuard is light. Most users won't outgrow Pulsar Nano. Bandwidth is the main constraint.
If you can SSH and edit a config file, you can do this.
apt install wireguardwg genkey | tee privatekey | wg pubkey > publickey/etc/sysctl.confWe don't proxy your traffic, inspect it, or store it. Your WireGuard config is your business.
No "unlimited" with secret throttles. Cap is stated; overage policy is in the AUP.
Tampa now, Frankfurt next. Drop a new tunnel in another region in <60 seconds.
BTC and ETH accepted. Anonymous billing, if that matters to you.
Pick a plan, deploy, paste the WireGuard config. You'll be tunneling before your coffee's done.
Concrete setup details for the first deploy, the firewall, and the first thing to check when something acts strange.
WireGuard defaults to UDP 51820. You can move it to another UDP port if a network blocks the default.
Nano handles personal and small-team tunnels easily. Bandwidth and route design matter more than RAM.
Generate one peer per device, enable IP forwarding, add NAT, and keep persistent keepalive on roaming mobile clients.
If handshakes work but browsing fails, check AllowedIPs, DNS, iptables/nftables masquerade, and the peer endpoint.