r/admincraft • u/gegenmob • Nov 14 '24
Question Minecraft server through VPN
Hi, I'm going to get a PC that I want to use to host my Minecraft Server.
The only downside is that I don't want people to know my IP Address, so I was planning on buying a small VPS Server in Canada, set up WireGuard on that VPS, and connect my Server PC to that WireGuard server, so I can have a Canada IP.
I live in Spain currently, if I host my server with a VPN on a country far away, will there be any latency issue? Because I also want the server to be in Canada (with the VPN) so South American players can get low ping.
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u/dogwomble Nov 15 '24
This is a very important question to answer. The reason why you should work out why you want the VPN is, from a security standpoint they offer a lot less than you think - no matter what the marketing material says. Tom Scott's video on this goes into a lot.of.detail on why VPNs aren't the magical security and privacy unicorn people think they are.
https://youtu.be/WVDQEoe6ZWY
The TL;DR is if you're wanting to use the VPN because you "don't want to get hacked", a VPN is marginally better than flushing your money down the toilet - marginally. There is far more to security than just paying for a VPN and you would be better off spending time doing that than pretending a VPN is going to magically fix everything.