OpenVPN Access Server / Self-Hosted VPN (BYOL)
OpenVPN Inc. | 2.13.1Linux/Unix, Ubuntu Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Simple and powerful VPN without the hassle
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of deployment, ease of maintenance, simple to on-board new users. Administration of the system is straightforward. Incredibly responsive support.
What do you dislike about the product?
In a cloud environment where you bring your own license, a small change to the underlying instance (stopping and starting the host machine) requires a new activation key. Thankfully, their support is incredibly responsive, however, would be lovely not to require this step.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Simple and secure remote access. Bastion host for cloud environments.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
A two user license is available for free. I would encourage anyone considering this product for use in production to give it a look.
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Affordable, easy to setup VPN solution for SMB
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of setup and ease of install are the best features. Also it's nice to be able to tie security permissions to specific active directory groups. very easy to install updates and manage on a server. one of our least troubleshot applications across the organization. also being provided simple rpms and packages further allows for ease of use.
What do you dislike about the product?
confusing website layout and lack of insight into the vpn connection experience. would be good to have a verbose setting on the client to see any potential connection issues. also phone or chat support to get direct response would be awesome to get immediate response.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
affordable vpn that is easy to setup and manage. even our help desk and student assistants that joined can easily manage users, troubleshoot issues. this saves us in labor time and labor costs so our information systems team can focus on other initiatibves that impact the company's bottom line rather than troubleshooting vpn issues or worrying about costs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
They offer non-profit and educational discount if you ask. Other open-source VPN's out there don't have the feature set or support available compared to OpenVPN. If you look at the competitors like WireGuard or NordVPN, that lack in one or both of the places that OpenVPN excels.
The Absolute Best Road-Warrior VPN Solution
What do you like best about the product?
The entire solution is managed via a web-gui and the pre-packaged installer files.
What do you dislike about the product?
No complaints here, been using for years
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use if for all of our technicians that are needing access to company files when on the road.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the trial, no reason not to.
Easy to setup and works as expected
What do you like best about the product?
Having the ability to limit users on what subnets then can connect to.
What do you dislike about the product?
Older versions would drop connections always stating that I was logged on from another location. Also, the VPN would start during boot up when I would have it set to not start at boot.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Private external access to our internal networks.
A great VPN solution for multiple network and client types!
What do you like best about the product?
We like that OpenVPN is... well... open. It works with Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, you name it. We're not vendor locked.
What do you dislike about the product?
The support offering is a little light, but given the upside and cost, that's completely understandable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a lot of mobile users around the US, getting them connected using an SSL, TCP, UDP adaptive VPN solution is critical given the types or networks our team is accessing from.
Great VPN, easy set up, and administration!
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to set up and administer and very simple licensing!
What do you dislike about the product?
There can be some confusion between the open source version and the paid subscription.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are allowing our clients access to a hosted application and we've seen increased security compliance.
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OpenVPN Review
What do you like best about the product?
nice lightweight application that provides us with vpn access for internal company documents and websites.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be a little difficult to set up by yourself if you don't have proper instructions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
giving access to confidential information and services.
Best VPN software for little companies
What do you like best about the product?
OpenVPN it's a little but powerful program to create VPN tunnels from your computer to another, or from a computer to a full network. It's totally safe, and if you scale the server, can deal with a big number of connections.
What do you dislike about the product?
At difference with other commercial softwares, OpenVPN needs that you work in the configuration during a few hours, isn't install and ready, and there are some options that are a bit difficult to set.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use to connect from our homes to the network of the work, using as a server a firewall that redirects the traffic.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
OpenVPN it's the best opensource alternative, it's free and works good for small-medium companies.
The free VPN software for people with knowledge
What do you like best about the product?
OpenVPN it's a free software that works really good. It's efficient, secure, and the clients can be of any operative system, all are compatible. You can tune totally your configuration and there are lots of possibilities. It's good for people that wants to create a customized VPN tunnel.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's really hard to start with OpenVPN, there are much options and isn't easy to get it up. The desktop application of mac don't work properly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use to connect to the work computers in a safe way. With OpenVPN we can create a private tunnel from our laptops to the firewall server of our company and keep connected to work computers in a safe way.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's the best alternative to use in a company with linux servers. It's compatible with all operative systems.
Once it's installed in the clients, it runs in background without doing any further work.
Once it's installed in the clients, it runs in background without doing any further work.
The most efficient VPN.
What do you like best about the product?
There are several things that I like about open vpn, it is a free software and you can make modifications to the code, the wide variety of servers that it offers so that users can try several and thus stay with which we feel more comfortable navigating the Internet, it does not weigh much, you can get it as an extension of chrome, download in the playstore for devices with android. In cell phones it is so simple to use that only one chooses the server and that's it. The support on your website is very useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
It really is very good, for code modifications if it is recommended to have an advanced knowledge of programming because each user has different preferences and sometimes they need to adjust the software specifications in order to satisfy their needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Open VPN has solved problems in the company, as are the restrictions that you have to access internet pages that have been blocked for the IP of the country where we are located.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
As recommendations, if they are companies that are looking for that they are not limiting access to websites, they want to browse freely on the web. download open VPN, has a variety of servers, Japan, Great Britain, Korea, USA, Italy, France, China, Spain, etc. It is very fast and easy to use, you can use it comfortably from your cell phone or a PC. Work in any OS.
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