Own VPN on VPS or third-party VPN, what's the difference?

Question

VPN

What is the difference between raising your VPN server on a rented VPS and a VPN connection to another provider of these same VPNs, if both of them can leak connection data to who should?

Answer 1

What can be said about third-party VPN services:

1. They ALWAYS keep logs. Even if they deny it to customers.
   
2. If they swear on the main page in huge print that they do not keep logs, then see paragraph (1).
   
3. The value of any client for them is no more than the amount of payment that he makes.
   
4. A client on a free tariff does not cost anything (a consequence of the previous paragraph).
   
5. In many countries (Great Britain, for example), the provision of VPN services is legally equated with the provision of Internet access with all the ensuing consequences (SORM and its analogues in different countries).
   
6. VPN with IP in Zimbabwe may well be provided by an office legally located, for example, in the USA (a fairly typical case).
   
7. Wherever the office is physically and legally located, it is under enormous pressure from Spamhaus and other influential anti-spamers, it is also under enormous pressure from the data center itself and the ip-range provider, whose business is hit by Spamhaus. The only party that can do practically nothing for them is their simple clients.
   
8. It follows from the previous points that they have 100,500 reasons (commercial and administrative) to merge any client, and not a single good reason not to merge it.
   
9. Analyzing the pricing policy of many budget VPN services, one can come to the conclusion that they operate at the lower payback limit with almost zero margin (it may even seem to be negative). What then is their business and what monetization scheme do they work on?
   
10. The Snowden documents once flashed the information that the GB spends significant budgets to maintain the operation of various honeypots around the world. Considering that one of Their priorities (quite officially declared) is the control of telecommunications on a global scale, it can be concluded that many honeypots are associated with attracting anonymity lovers, among whom a significant proportion are Their "clients".
    
11. Considering the age of publication of those revelations, it can be assumed that today many countries have already successfully adopted the "experience of foreign colleagues" (especially given the sharp updating of this topic in recent times).
    

Answer 2

When you have a VPN on your VPS server, you are confident in it and know how it is configured. You can turn off any logging at all.

Answer 3

1. You said yourself - data leaks.
2. Functionality.
3. Difficulty setting, general security.
4. Support for something exotic, like a built-in tor proxy.

Answer 4

The difference is in the ease of administration.

Answer 5

The answer is simple!
- "Where is it better to live in a rented apartment or in your own?"
Of course in my own.
This is your VPN server ( OpenVPN ) on which you can create new users or revoke certificates from old ones, you can additionally install some kind of software (for example, the VestaCP panel and host a site) and so on.

Answer 6

The advantage of having a VPN on the server is security.
the advantage of someone else's is often cheapness. but at what cost?
often for businesses, buying someone else's vpn is actually signing their own death warrant over data privacy.