Proxy/VPN for when I'm abroad.

[StefanWolves]

I was looking at that one.

[Recursion]

I have the cheapest VPS with iFuseHosting.com (£5.99) and setup a SOCKS5 proxy to SSH all my traffic through my VPS (based in Maidenhead), make sure you send your DNS requests through it too though (can change that in about:config in FF).

Good for getting around all the blocks at school and in the long battle of the local IT techies looking at all the traffic coming from my laptop

[StefanWolves]

How would I set one of those up if I bought it off that site?

[N!ck]

How would I set one of those up if I bought it off that site?

Recursion's method is what I was talking about, and it won't work on the iPhone.

[StefanWolves]

I'm sure there is a way to use SOCKS on a jailbroken iPhone.

[Recursion]

You can do it on an unjailbroken iPhone actually (Bloomin' surprising!!): http://snipplr.com/view.php?id=16563

[Tomm]

I think he was trying to get at the ability to use SSH tunnelling rather than a SOCKS proxy. You can setup a VPN on a VPS assuming that the host has enabled the appropriate modules (OpenVZ based VPS) or if it is a truly isolated solution (Xen, VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.).

(Edit: this was before Recursion's post, if you can do the SSH tunnelling method on the iPhone then its alot easier to setup than a VPN as you don't need to do anything server-side)

Edit 2: Actually read that link in more details and I can't see where it says you can setup a local SOCKS proxy on the iPhone to tunnel data over SSH, might have to use the VPN assuming you can make VPN connections from a iPhone)

[Recursion]

I think he was trying to get at the ability to use SSH tunnelling rather than a SOCKS proxy. You can setup a VPN on a VPS assuming that the host has enabled the appropriate modules (OpenVZ based VPS) or if it is a truly isolated solution (Xen, VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.).

Explain pl0x.

[Tomm]

If you're using OpenVZ which most VPS providers use then you need to get your host to have the tun module loaded on the VPS host machine and the appropriate rights to your container to allow use of TUN/TAP devices. Any respectable host should enable it for your VPS if you request them to do so.

For other solutions that are truly isolated (i.e are not simply a "container" but actually load their own kernel) then you can just do it as you don't need stuff setting up on the host node.

[StefanWolves]

So in short, what is the best all round method?

1) VPN
2) VPS/SSH Tunnel

If 2) would you please talk me through how to set it up & where too buy from? thanks.