cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/969323
I am looking to buy a VPN subscription, and im interested in getting one that allows port forwarding. Found a few that still allows this, including pure VPN and air VPN which seem to offer good value for money, at least on the the long term plans. Any feedback on these two?
I used to have nordvpn, and used it for 3 years, and once that subscription ran out, have been using mullvad so far. Performance wise mullvad hasnt disappointed me or anything, but now im looking to find one that allows port forwarding.
I also have a doubt regarding the whole port forwarding thing, does the VPN having this feature enable to do it even if my ISP doesnt allow port forwarding? From the videos and articles I read, VPN port forwarding is just something you do inside their native apps and such, so if the ISP hasnt enabled port forwarding for me (which I know it hasnt, because tried to get jellyfin working the other day, and couldnt get the ports to open even after setting everything up in my router), will I still be able to do it? I tried searching around with this query, but didnt really find anything.
I use airVPN and I’ve been very pleased with it. Can also pay month to month, as I only use it to torrent. I don’t use port forwarding. My question is - can you use a VPS for what you need?
I am not very knowledgable about vps and how that could be something I can use. To be frank, I dont have any particular need for a VPN other than torrenting and bypassing geographical restriction in a general way. The jellyfin experiment was to just be able to share my media across the web, so that people I know can access my media, music, mostly. Even the selection of a VPN isnt that urgent as I have a shared seedbox with seedbox.eu so that I can download torrents safely. Since I have been using a VPN for some years now, I thought id keep one handy, and when I was reading up about port forwarding, I thought maybe that could be useful, for jellyfin and such.
Look into a VPS. I use a few to host web apps & apis for personal/business use. You can use it as a server to host media files to yourself. And since you have full access to the OS, you can do whatever port forwarding you like.
Plus they’re super cheap. I pay like $4 a month for the cheapest and $15 a month for the most expensive. The cheapest is like only 750mb RAM… but for simple things you don’t need much at all
That is something I would like to look into in the future, but since you are knowledgeable with regards to VPS, can I ask you why the RAM figures are more important than the storage figures, in the few services I checked out, and the example you gave, the RAM value is what is prominently mentioned, if the purpose is to store media and such, doesnt the storage capacity take precedence, like in a seedbox?
The VPN is basically a tunnel outside your whole network, so the port is forwarded via said tunnel to the device the VPN is active on, completely bypassing your ISP and routers port forwarding capabilities.
I use Private Internet Access with port forwarding and have never had a problem.
PIA has port forwarding and I am using it rn. It’s good.
I was going to link you to Mullvad’s port forwarding guide but it looks like they removed that feature just this year
