wireproxy VS Netmaker

However, there are ways to be frugal like using VPNs that have high device limit and quality servers through wireproxy etc. Though note that this is a resource problem - would you spend your dev time figuring out how to setup your own proxy network and penny-pinch here or spend that time working on your product instead? That's why web scraping services are becoming so popular - it just handles all of this ugly mess for you (I might be bias :)

Wireproxy can do similar stuff: https://github.com/octeep/wireproxy

(Disclaimer: I am a contributor to Wireproxy)

Though if you're interested in using VPNs as proxies I recommend looking into wireproxy which turns wireguard VPNs to proxy services. As many VPN services allow 5-10 simultaneous connections you can have a pool of 5-10 proxies for your web scrapers. This is a great, cheap solution for IP-based rate limiting.

Technically you could connect to Mullvad by generating a WireGuard config and feeding it into wghttp or wireproxy and then use a proxy-switching browser extension to use the proxy only for websites that don't break

My plan is to set up an EC2 instance and host a VPN, considering options like Netmaker, OpenVPN, or Tailscale. The goal is to connect these devices to the VPN, enabling SSH access from any connected node. This method seems cost-effective(Considering I want to use 100s of devices and potentially 1000s) and straightforward, requiring a simple setup with a sudo apt command on the Raspberry Pi.

I'm wondering if there are any alternative approaches to achieve this. Is something like Netmaker or Tailscale feasible enough? If you have any suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it.

https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker

Honorable mention:

SuperHighway84 - more of a Usenet-inspired darknet, but I love the concept + the author's personal website:

https://github.com/mrusme/superhighway84

Exciting news to share! Netmaker has officially embraced open source. This momentous decision was unveiled at the Open Source Summit in Europe when the pull request successfully merged, transitioning their server from the SSPL to the widely recognized Apache License 2.0.

While we've encountered some challenges and worked with vendors like Cisco to find solutions, I'm curious about recommendations for SD-WAN providers that are well-suited for SASE users. This includes not only Zscaler but also other options like Netmaker, Palo Alto, Cloudflare, Cisco, and Forcepoint.

Now, my main question is how I can link my DDNS host endpoint with my EC2 instances, allowing only my home network to access them. I've come across a variety of suggestions, such as Netmaker, OpenVPN, Tailscale etc. but I'm curious to hear your opinions on these solutions.

HN is somehow always timely. Currently, these folks expect me to sign a CLA for a one-byte change to their README: https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker/pull/2516