https://www.linuxhosted.com/tags/self-hosted/Recent content in Self-Hosted on LinuxHosted.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenLinuxHosted.comWed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.linuxhosted.com/post/wireguard-vps-setup/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.linuxhosted.com/post/wireguard-vps-setup/ <p>Running your own VPN server used to mean wrestling with OpenVPN's certificate authority workflow or IPsec's famously fiddly configuration stanzas. <strong><a href="https://www.wireguard.com/install/">WireGuard</a></strong> was built to sidestep both problems: it's a VPN protocol implemented as a small codebase that the Linux kernel has shipped as a built-in module since late 2019, according to the <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/WireGuard">Arch Linux wiki's WireGuard page</a>. This guide sets one up end to end on a Linux VPS — installing the tool, generating keys, writing the configuration file, and bringing the tunnel up — using the commands WireGuard's own documentation and manual page specify.</p>