Install openvpn server ubuntu

This tutorial is going to show you how to run your own OpenVPN Access server on Ubuntu 22.04/20.04.

OpenVPN is an open-source, robust, and highly flexible VPN solution.

Why Set Up Your Own VPN Server?

• Maybe you are a VPN service provider or a system administrator, which behooves you to set up your own VPN server.
• You don’t trust the no-logging policy of VPN service providers, so you go the self-host route.
• You can use VPN to implement network security policy.

  For example, if you run your own email server, you can require users to log in only from the IP address of the VPN server by creating an IP address whitelist in the firewall.

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  Thus, your email server is hardened to prevent hacking activities.

• Perhaps you are just curious to know how VPN server works.

OpenVPN Access Server Features

• Lightweight and fast. In my test, I can watch YouTube 4K videos with OpenVPN.

  YouTube is blocked in my country (China).

• Runs on Linux and most BSD servers.
• There is OpenVPN client software for Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and
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