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VPN and SSH providers list

Author: Frank | Category: other

Introduction to VPN and private internet surfing

The best anonymizing proxy you can have is tor, which by the way is free. The only downside of tor is speed, it can take a long time to download websites with images, and videos and torrents through tor are a no go area.

Be warned that a VPN is a single hop proxy, it will not protect you from a well funded spying enterprise who wants to know your IP. A VPN will most likely not protect you from a law enforcement agency, aka LEA, but it will make their life more difficult.

WARNING: Some of the companies listed below could be scammers. Some VPN providers also set up two or three companies using different names and websites but the same servers.

List of Virtual Private Network providers

LAST UPDATED 20th March 2010 (100 VPN providers)

List of SSH and other internet private surfing providers

Cotse: Read my Cotse SSH tunnelling review
Jondos
Blacknet
JTAN Proshell Account
Xerobank
Guardster
Psiphon
Your Freedom
GPass

Finding the righ VPN and SSH tunnelling provider

Regarding VPN logging policy and anonymous internet surfing

Some VPN providers claim they do not to keep any logs, others claim they keep logs for thirty days, others refuse to undisclose their logs policy, consider all the public logs policy of a VPN as bullshit.

You have no way of knowing if a single hop proxy keeps logs or it does not. If you fall for a false sense of privacy and security you will pay the consequences.

Always assume the logs are stored for a year and they can be retrieved, be very careful with what anti government propaganda you post and all of your blogging activities.

A VPN is for privacy, not anonymity. If you are into serious business use tor.

Regarding what VPN or SSH tunnelling can do for you

A VPN will stop your ISP from logging your activities and will bypass their wrongly named child porn internet filters.

A VPN will give extra work to anyone on the intent to find out your real computer IP. They will have to spend more time and more money tracking you down, unless they want you badly, and depending on how hard it is to find you, they may as well give up.

Internet Service Providers filtering the internet are powerless against someone who is using an offfshore VPN for internet surfing.

The UK Internet Watch Foundation list of banned websites for example, is totally useless against someone accessing the internet through a VPN. If they add a Wikipedia webpage again to their list of banned sites, you will be able to access it.

Regarding my personal experience using VPN

During the past years I have used various Virtual Private Network and SSH tunnelling providers in order to stop my ISP logging my internet activities, data retention, and bypass the filtering of websites.

Something I have learned is that conditions such as speed and reliability keep changing, a VPN that works great today may go down, have its IP blacklisted or be very slow the next month.

Small VPN providers also tend to go out of business, I recommend you do not pay a year in advance to a small VPN provider, avoid the discount temptation unless it is a company you trust and you believe is here to stay.

Another good reason to avoid paying a full year in advance is that VPN customer service is more likely to reply to support emails. We all know how many support emails go answered nowdays.

VPN or SSH tunnelling service checklist

1. Privacy policy: Even if it is bullshit the VPN or SSH tunnelling service should have a privacy and logs policy up and running somewhere, it shows they care about privacy and have thought about it.

2. Data transfer: Find out about the VPN or SSH tunnelling service data transfer maximum allowance and make sure it suits your needs. Also make sure they allow things like bittorrent if you intend to use it.

3. Jurisdiction: Choose a VPN or SSH tunnelling provider located somewhere outside of the jurisdiction from the corrupt Government you believe can get most pissed off or most likely to go after you due to your internet downloading/uploading activities.

Assuming that exists, choose a VPN or SSH tunnelling provider located somewhere with strong privacy laws.

4. IP blocking: Some services like Hulu block USA IPs they believe belong to a proxy service, make sure your VPN IP is not blocked by the websites you want to access.

IRC networks also blocks VPNs if these have been used in the past to abuse them.

5. Compatibility: Make sure the VPN or SSH tunnelling provider will work on your Windows 64 bit, Linux, iPhone or whatever OS you happen to be using.

Frank
March 15th, 2010 at 4:23 pm

NOTICE: Someone posted a comment here recommending people to use certain VPN service from the list and saying how good it had gone for him.

I researched this comment’s IP and email and I found a minimum of +15 other comments at VPN review sites and social sites, all the comments recommending the same VPN service. This username had no other comments regarding weather, politics, life, etc. Only to talk about the VPN service.

I also noticed that this person lives in the same Eastern European country where the VPN is based.

I have now removed that VPN company from my list.

As always, be very careful when reading reviews from anonymous users about VPNs, some VPN owners will review themselves. In this case the guy was retarded enough to use the same email/username everywhere.

No, I will not name them, I only have circumstantial evidence, 99.9%, but they are not returning to the list anytime soon.

And this is not the first time a VPN provider comes to this blog to promote his service without identifying himself as the owner of the company.

If you have a privacy service to promote you are more than welcome to post here, just don’t pass yourself as a “some satisfied user”.

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