OpenVPN Access Server / Self-Hosted VPN (BYOL)
OpenVPN Inc. | 2.13.1Linux/Unix, Ubuntu Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Secure and Reliable VPN Solution with Robust Features
What do you like best about the product?
I really appreciate how OpenVPN Access Server offers a secure and customizable environment for VPN management. It’s user-friendly and makes it easy to handle remote connections. Plus, it’s versatile—there are plenty of configuration options, and it works well across different platforms, which is great for adapting to various organizational needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
While it’s a powerful tool, some of the more advanced configuration options can be pretty complex and might overwhelm users who aren’t as experienced. The cost can also add up, especially if you need a lot of concurrent connections for a large deployment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
OpenVPN Access Server is helping us secure our internal resources by providing encrypted remote access, especially for our remote workforce. It ensures that our sensitive data is protected while allowing seamless access to our internal network. This has significantly reduced the risk of data breaches and improved our overall security posture
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Easy turn-key VPN solution for SMBs
What do you like best about the product?
* Secure solution that is tested and used world-wide.
* Very easy to use, manage, and update.
* Simple integration with SAML/OAuth, or you can run with local users.
* Very easy to use, manage, and update.
* Simple integration with SAML/OAuth, or you can run with local users.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing comes to mind, except I had to roll my own SSL cert renewal solution, but that wasn't too hard, and is well documented.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Other products run tens of thousands per year. OpenVPN AS costs a few bucks a month, based on max users actively using it that month.
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Easy to connect and use
What do you like best about the product?
It's blazing fast and easy to use. I like the interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the application does not open.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm able to access my company website without issues and we use vpn for work.
Expensive and not so reliable
What do you like best about the product?
It's relatively easy and quick to configure if you don't need anything too special. Its free part is widely used so it's easy to find help on some topics. Support is great, responds quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The web UI is very unlogical. It can be terribly slow at times. Some features that we would like to have are missing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connecting the whole company to the intranet
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Simple and solid!
What do you like best about the product?
We've been using OpenVPN connect for nearly 2 years to allow our DevOps team conneciton into AWS resource.
It was quick to push out to our user base with InTune and easy to setup SAML to use Entra 365 MFA authentication. Solid and simple UI with easy to access connection logs.
Having contacted support twice I was connected with the right folk immediately, no messing around with first line - straight to the devs!
It was quick to push out to our user base with InTune and easy to setup SAML to use Entra 365 MFA authentication. Solid and simple UI with easy to access connection logs.
Having contacted support twice I was connected with the right folk immediately, no messing around with first line - straight to the devs!
What do you dislike about the product?
Users with slightly flakey wifi connections can get annoyed with having to re-authenticate using their MFA device.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provides secure MFA protected access to our AWS environments.
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Easy to set up to allow access to internal networks or VMs
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to configure, easy for end users to connect to network or VMs as necessary
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing I that comes to mind, maybe just the price per license
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing us to give access to our internal network and VMs
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OpenVPN for a small college
What do you like best about the product?
One of the easiest VPN products to set-up and use for our school. We tried a few before settling for OpenVPN. Even our senior non-tech teachers did not have problems installing the client on their machines.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost isn't the lowest around. But we traded cost for ease of use. Its no use paying for something super cheap but having to hire a consultant to implement it.
Our internal support team was able to set this up and deploy easily by reading the instructions thoroughly.
Our internal support team was able to set this up and deploy easily by reading the instructions thoroughly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our school subscribed to OpenVPN to provide a private and secured way to access our older intranet-based software during the pandemic. Since it worked very well during the pandemic and people already know how to use it, we thought it was best to leave it as it is to provide an extra layer of security even if the people who need to access our legacy software is on premise anyway.
insights on OpenVPN Access Server
What do you like best about the product?
OpenVPN Access Server is a robust and flexible VPN solution designed to provide secure and private access to your network resources over the internet.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need auto update currently i have to do manually update
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Employees working remotely can securely access company resources, including intranet websites, file servers, and other internal applications.
Secure your access for internal resources using Open VPN
What do you like best about the product?
Security ,Cost-Effectiveness ,Ease of Use &Compliance
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as of now. It does give trouble connecting though which is temperorary
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are a SaaS Global Company & we wanted to use a VPN connection for our employees internally. We did evaluate couple of tools in the space mainly Cisco & Open VPN. Costs and maintainance of OpenVPN is far lower than cisco. It has all the features that an ISO aduit would require. Trust worthy tool & support is excellent
My favourite VPN solution!
What do you like best about the product?
My favourite thing about OpenVPN is how simple and quick it is to get started, plus the integrations it offers out of the box for the with such an easy setup is fantastic.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I dislike is that the server can't run on Windows.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest problem we had was using an older out of date VPN method which didn't support modern authentication and had very little features. Now with OpenVPN we have Azure authentication with MFA enforcement, tighter security rules and NAT capabilities.
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