Title. I got an email that says my VPN provider, Hotspot Shield, is ending their support for router installs, which includes OpenVPN credentials, at the end of the year.
This means the applications I have that require a VPN connection will no longer be able to use it. They suggest using the desktop or mobile apps, but my connection is currently being router through docker clients that use ovpn.
I use hotspot shield because access is provided at no extra cost through my password manager (Dashlane). I know I can just suck it up and pay for another VPN provider, but there’s got to be a way I can spin up a VM with the client installed and pass specific containers’ traffic through it, right? All the search terms I’m currently trying aren’t that useful because the suggestion is to just use ovpn. Believe me, I would if I could.
I’m not looking to self-host to get access. I have Unifi Teleport for that. I’m looking to route these containers’ traffic through a data center to anonymize it.
You can do that as well. Throw a small machine / VM in a data center. Install Tailscale on it. Configure it as an “exit node”. Put Tailscale on the other hosts and have them use that DC node as their exit node. All internet traffic will route through the DC node.
Doesn’t save you much money though since you’re paying for a VM vs paying for the service.
It’s worse. They’re -only- supporting their desktop and mobile apps. No external or router (ovpn) support.
There’s a Linux client, and that’s got me thinking I could route it via a Linux VM. I just don’t know how to do that. I much prefer ovpn. The only reason I’m still using HotspotShield is specifically because I get their premium service for $0/yr on top of my Dashlane subscription.
Anyone coming here for an update, I got it. I spun up a Linux VM, connected the Hotspot Shield VPN client, installed Wireguard as a server, created an opvn file from there and imported that file into my docker containers.