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Add to SafariWhen comparing Roll your own VPN vs ProtonVPN, the Slant community recommends ProtonVPN for most people. In the question“What is the best VPN provider? ” ProtonVPN is ranked 9th while Roll your own VPN is ranked 75th.
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Pros
Pro Single IP
Quite often with VPN services you get a shared IP, here you get one all to yourself. This means you are far less likely to be blocked.
Pro Cheap
Depending on your use case, a cheap unmetered VPS can cost very little.
Pro You control everything
"Is there logging?" "Do I get my own IP?" So many questions, easily answered by running your own service!
Pro You can pay with bitcoin or cash
Pro No logs
They have a no-log policy.
Pro Great free service
For the free plan, you get unlimited data and fast speeds.
Pro Based in Switzerland
Which has good privacy protection laws.
Pro "Serious"
They believe that online privacy and security is a fundamental human right.
Pro Free plan is very busy, sometimes unavailable lately
Cons
Con One location only
Unless you set up multiple boxes, you have to think about where you are getting your server. The advantage of many VPN services is that you can pick your location to get around geo-blocks.
Con Tougher to set up
OpenVPN in particular is not exactly trivial to set up.
Con Free plan is very slow sometimes
Con It's not working in China
Con Blocked on quite a lot of networks
Quite a lot of admins despise VPNs and blocked this one on their networks.
Con It's free
If you're not paying for the product, you're the product.
