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can you use a web host as a vpn? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago by breb@piefed.social to c/vpn@lemmy.world

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noob here well, i was thinking that besides the fact that many webhost have free trial, there would be the advantage that they're niche vpn
With PHP you could send commands to client/server
The question is. Do people do this? Is it there anykind of measure webhosting companies take to regulate this?
I tried it but seems like php works slow doing this kind of tasks

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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Absolutely. I've run my traffic through my servers with Wireguard in the past.

https://www.bluehost.com/blog/vps-for-vpn/

[–] breb@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (6 children)

do you know if vps are usually considered bots under the eye of websites such as yt?

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you mean do you get caught up in the common VPN blocking often found with cloudflair, etc, no, as all of those protection systems are using IP blocklists that popular VPN exit IPs get caught up in since almost all of the popular VPN companies are using the same networks for their traffic.

Setting up your VPN on a host with a dedicated IP would keep you from being flagged as malicious traffic.

[–] breb@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

yeah that's why i suppose. Why im gonna use a webhost as vpn. I assume webhosting ip is not blocked as none uses them as a client I hope it doesn't give me problems

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