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Does anyone have an easy VPN or VPS solution for dummies in China?
Ive been using everything like LetsVPN, ProtonVPN, Shadowrocket, Clash Plus, non of these are like super stable... Only thing that works is my own router tunneling back home. Tempted to pay the $40/month for throughwire I see those ads on ig all the time but it seems incredibly steep for a VPN

Is there like some easy more stable say like 15min setup guide for vps or vpn that works atm?
Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I want to build a self-hosted stealth VPN back to my home network for when I travel. The goal is to completely mask the fact that I’m using a VPN at all, and reliably bypass aggressive DPI firewalls that flag standard corporate VPNs (like GlobalProtect) or block vanilla WireGuard and OpenVPN.

My Setup:

• Server: Raspberry Pi 5
• Client: GL.iNet
• Network: Static IPv4 address

Given my specific hardware, what is the best censorship-circumvention protocol I should host on my Pi 5 to ensure absolute stealth?

what is the most popular, industry standard Selfhosted protocol/service/whatever that will give me the best results? Nothing seems like it is the go-to, and everything gives the appearance of being super niche. Sing-box, X-ray core, reality, xhttp etc. so many different words with no info on what is actually the best to selfhost.

Should I buy a VPS instead of using cloudflare's CDN, or should I selfhost somewhere?

Currently have hiddify selfhosted at home with cloudflare CDN.

Selfhosted at home, reality enabled + cloud flare CDN and domain. Last time I went to china I had to deal with this issue and it was annoying as hell.

I don't understand why, if someone has a fix please let me know.

looking at providers, hyfabric seems perfect. the account settings mentions something about a discord though, maybe its a payment only thing? their telegram support links to nothing too, suspicious? shot them an email ill keep posted on any reply.

first time interaction with any of this, i gen js asked chatgpt stuff. going to china for a month. im unsure if my plan of shadowrocket and a month of torguard is the best option or is even gonna work. im concerned and i wanna make sure i got it right bc its rly important i got a connection in china.

Many sites restrict VPS IPs. Cloudflare WARP reduces the restriction but doesn't solve it completely. What do you do about it?

The recent UK crackdown makes me worried, anyone else dealing with this? Honestly losing my patience. Half the VPN providers I used are now either blocked or unreliable, and the ones that still work get flagged as VPN on most sites I try to use. Resi or dedicated VPNs aren't much better, fraud scores are high and most sites restrict my access. Then there's the DPI side of things, ISP-level filtering is getting more aggressive, certain protocols just don't survive a session anymore.

I am looking around at what could actually work as a VPN alternative.

So our internet is limited here, and my ISP offers cheaper bundles specific to playstaion only.

I see people here selling config files to use in nekoray they rerout traffic through playstation servers.

I bought a vps and domain, i tried setting everything up with AI but it keeps failing on DNS exchange and IDK what to do. VPN tunneling works and my ip detects as the VPS, but when i change the SNI to playstation links it fails at dns exchange and internet goes down.

Anyone experienced with this able to help?