Own VPN: how to forward all your traffic through the cheapest VPS

Saturday. June 01, 2019 - 1 min

Today, the problem of restricting Internet traffic is quite relevant: perhaps you are a resident of a particular country such as Russia or just want to use certain services from work where traffic is curtailed – you always have to think of workarounds.

Below I give a description of one of the simplest ways to solve this problem.

In short:

# Install sshuttle (Ubuntu):
you@localhost$> sudo apt-get install sshuttle
...
# OR other Linux OS:
you@localhost$> sudo pip3 install sshuttle
...

# Start forwarding:
you@localhost$> sshuttle -r root@<ip-of-your-VPS> 0.0.0.0/0
[local sudo] Password:           # sudo password of your local comp
root@<ip-of-your-VPS> password:  # user pass of your VPS
client: Connected.               # here we are!

Now go to any site like get-myip.com from your browser and make sure that it shows ip-of-your-VPS.

Explanation:

It’s hard to find better and easier tool to forward all the local traffic to your remote server than sshuttle. Try it out yourself.
Obviously, we don’t need a dedicated server, so simply rent the cheapest VPS (Virtual Private Server) with enough amount of Internet traffic. I’ve found vpsserver.com that has $5/month tariff with 1 TB of traffic, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB ssd which is more than enough for my purposes. Also I heard that there are even more cheaper VPSs.
Install Ubuntu on it or other OS your would prefer.
Insatll sshuttle on your local computer and run it as shown above.
Note: sudo password of your local machine is necessary to get enough permissions to forward all your local traffic.

FIN!

Alex Medveshchek

Backend Developer addicted to Natural Language Processing