Questions about premium VPN Services.

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Is there anyone who uses services of providers like NordVPN or ExpressVPN etc. How reliable are these? I would appreciate if anyone of you could recommend me a provider . The more affordable would obviously be nice but I don't think my friend minds splurging a bit if it the benefits justify the cost. Thanks.

Windscribe is the best starter vpn because you can pay monthly to see what your usecase is. You can also select a single country and pay a measly 2$ per month.

FilledVoid said:
Is there anyone who uses services of providers like NordVPN or ExpressVPN etc. How reliable are these? I would appreciate if anyone of you could recommend me a provider . The more affordable would obviously be nice but I don't think my friend minds splurging a bit if it the benefits justify the cost. Thanks.

*mullvad.net/en/

Use Mullvad. They don't keep logs and are trusted by people like Snowden. Especially don't use Express or Nord.

thetechfreak said:
*mullvad.net/en/

Use Mullvad. They don't keep logs and are trusted by people like Snowden. Especially don't use Express or Nord.

Mullvad is available in India? Last I checked they weren't.

Desmond David said:
Mullvad is available in India? Last I checked they weren't.

The site loads fine for me? If your card can do the payment I'm sure it'll work.

I think @aaruni has used it in the past.

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Thanks all for your replies. Will check out both Windscribe and Mullad

Desmond David said:
Mullvad is available in India? Last I checked they weren't.

Yes, it is available in India

FilledVoid said:
Is there anyone who uses services of providers like NordVPN or ExpressVPN etc. How reliable are these? I would appreciate if anyone of you could recommend me a provider . The more affordable would obviously be nice but I don't think my friend minds splurging a bit if it the benefits justify the cost. Thanks.

What is your purpose? If you need it only to access blocked sites then a vpn with lifetime subscription is enough you can purchase from Stacksocial. I personally use keepsolid lifetime vpn it works flawlessly

Cyberghost said:
If you need it only to access blocked sites

In this case I think you can use Tor for free, though the issue will be that the sites you access might be from another country and in some cases speed will be slow. But it's better for casual use.

thetechfreak said:
The site loads fine for me? If your card can do the payment I'm sure it'll work.

I think @aaruni has used it in the past.

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They no longer have a VPN endpoint in india, but AFAIK, they support indian users just fine.

TBH there is no point in getting Indian endpoint.

That's only partly true.

Many government service pages refuse to load if your IP is of outside india.

Personally, I maintain a cheap DO VPS in the BLR region so I can tunnel into that for bypassing such stupid restrictions. I also find that when that VPN is on, call quality over whatsapp / telegram to people in India improves.

aaruni said:
Many government service pages refuse to load if your IP is of outside india.

Sounds like a "you" problem.

I can just access govt websites from normal net.

aaruni said:
That's only partly true.

Many government service pages refuse to load if your IP is of outside india.

Personally, I maintain a cheap DO VPS in the BLR region so I can tunnel into that for bypassing such stupid restrictions. I also find that when that VPN is on, call quality over whatsapp / telegram to people in India improves.

Do you use VPN all the time?

TheSloth said:
Do you use VPN all the time?

I turn it on when I have to call home, turn it off otherwise. I could probably just leave it open all the time, but I've never thought about doing that.

aaruni said:
I turn it on when I have to call home, turn it off otherwise. I could probably just leave it open all the time, but I've never thought about doing that.

At first I thought you are using it for all your online activity then how much it cost and is it really worth it. And if you don't use it then govt websites should not be a problem for you, right?

TheSloth said:
At first I thought you are using it for all your online activity then how much it cost and is it really worth it. And if you don't use it then govt websites should not be a problem for you, right?

It costs 5 bucks a month to maintain that server, regardless of how little or how much I use it. Its a wireguard server / mumble server / peertube server, so its worth keeping it alive.

As for govt websites, I need to turn the VPN on to access them, otherwise they throw weird errors.

aaruni said:
peertube server

How does peertube perform on your VPS?

Desmond said:
How does peertube perform on your VPS?

Very nicely, IMO. I'll PM you the link on telegram.

Opera has its own inbuilt VPN to access blocked sites.

You can use Oracle cloud to get 2 vps for free forever. Kudos to @Cool Buddy for pointing that out in another thread. Use it for wireguard, wordpress, ssh tunneling etc etc

Desmond said:
In this case I think you can use Tor for free, though the issue will be that the sites you access might be from another country and in some cases speed will be slow. But it's better for casual use.

Tor is good but yes it is slow

*1.1.1.1/

what is the difference between Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 and traditional VPNs? how are they giving it for free? Users are able to access blocked torrent sites through it.