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Anyone have a good VPN recommendation? My NordVPN subscription actually just recently expired, and I was going to renew it, but in light of this, I’m open to other options.

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I am very satisfied with Mullvad,but they are maybe not as hip as the new kids on the block, but I have never really had a reason to switch. Reasonable speed (at most about 100kByte performance penalty for a 30mbit connection), and a very nice support with lots of knowhow.

I don't like their new application, but I do like that I can use them to play with wireguard.

AirVPN has worked well for me. They show the bandwidth capacity, use and current users of each server online so you can always make a informed decision. They let you use full capacity of the servers (I've brought a server from 100mbps usage to 900mbps on my gigabit line). They also have pretty good tooling, openvpn profile creator online, port forwarding, dns proxying servers...

I also like AirVPN, and ExpressVPN - I'd choose between them based on the location of servers and which client software you prefer.

Just fire up a VPS instance and set up a VPN on it. It's much cheaper, you get more control over it and it's dedicated to you so less crowded traffic. e.g. Vultr instance is just $3.5 a month and they're pay by the hour. There's many one-key VPN script. So set up is easy too.

I agree with everything except "it's much cheaper" - Private Internet Access, for example, is $3.33/mo. if you pay annually. A DO instance running Algo or Streisand will be $5/mo. I know Vultr offers some even cheaper VPS tiers, but they have more limited bandwidth (500G/mo. - which might or might not be problem, depending on how much traffic you wanted to send through them).

Hetzner $3/mo and 20TB traffic? Seems to be reasonable.

ovh? Their S1-2 instance is only $3.5 a month and has 100mbps unmetered bandwidth.

It's not hard to find $1/month OpenVZ VPS on lowendbox forum. I'm using one with I think 2TB/month of traffic, more than enough for my blog...

Private internet access. They’ve been pretty solid for me the last few years.

Somewhat expensive, but I've been very happy with Encrypt.me since the beta of Cloak here several years ago.

Been a fan of vpn.ac, simple and easy, supports any protocol I'd care to use.

I'm with ExpressVPN. The performance is fantastic.

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