OpenVPN
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
2warn against
Dec 6, 2025first mention
Jun 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I used to have a job with simple OpenVPN to connect to the servers”
“eventually just switched to OpenVPN”
switched from RDPon “2026 is the Year of Self-hosting”
Caveats and dissent
“I used to have OpenVPN, and there's a world of difference.”
“OpenVPN is far from "no fuss", especially when compared to Tailscale.”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Come work at OpenVPN! Yes, THE OpenVPN!”
Threads where it came up
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- A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) 1 mention
- Tailscale's New macOS Home 1 mention
Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 17
“I setup OpenVPN with that remote device initiating the persistent tunnel.”
“does not support wireguard but does support openvpn natively”
“They also stopped supporting openvpn which I need.”
“iirc OpenVPN supports multicast traffic through its virtual TAP”
“I can set up OpenVPN or Wireguard”
“I also built a small OpenVPN compatibility gateway prototype”
“Primarily to use in conjunction with OpenVPN.”
“I use OpenVPN for this.”
“I used to have a job with simple OpenVPN to connect to the servers”
“eventually just switched to OpenVPN”
“I used to have OpenVPN, and there's a world of difference.”
> I really like this setup because I only have one environment, so everything is there, and I don't have to install anything in the laptop Yeah that's one of my favorite parts. Same about living in the terminal. I can be effective anywhere nearly instantly. I carry everything around in my dotfiles and keep it small (keep the .git folder small and don't add anything except text files)[0]. On that note, one thing I hig
“I have an OpenVPN server running in my router”
“I also have an OpenVPN as a backup option”
“I only use OpenVPN”
“With DCO, OpenVPN can perform almost as well as Wireguard, sometimes even better.”
“OpenVPN is far from "no fuss", especially when compared to Tailscale.”