Solved: How to make a VPN on a VPS?

What are you intending to do with this VPN? Are you providing access to some resource hosted on this VPS? Are you looking to interconnect each other's networks together?

 

Privacy for what? If you're looking for an Internet anonymizer, this is NOT a VPN. The term VPN has been too perverted by non network people. You'll have to turn the VPS into a VPN server and then into a router to make it function as a proxy.

 

Geek117 summed it up. This is why I'm up in arms about this notion about using these so called VPN services as some how making your web browsing more "secure". As geek pointed out, the only secure part of it is the encrypted tunnel it creates between you, the client, and their network. From there, your Internet traffic gets repackaged and then sent out looking like the traffic originated from the provider's network....theoretically removing the IP address (your name tag) identifying that activity as coming from you. If you choose to surf questionable sites which may have malware, you're still going to be exposed just like if you were to use your original ISP's connection.

I've had debates about the validity of these "VPN" services and to me they're no better than P2P, Torrent, or file sharing type services. The only reason I can see why someone would be looking into services like this is if they are looking to hide their activities which they most likely wouldn't admit in an open setting.