We use the solution to access FTP pages and file sharing.
OpenVPN Access Server / Self-Hosted VPN (BYOL)
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Reliable, easy to use, and open source
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The solution is reliable, easy to use, and open source. It's free at no cost.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpenVPN Access Server as a user.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product is stable. There are no interruptions, and it works smoothly.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution’s scalability is fine. It encompasses security advances and investments in the industry.
What was our ROI?
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is free. It is worth the money.
What other advice do I have?
The tool works fine and doesn't bother me all day.
I recommend the solution.
Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Easy to use and helps communicate with office servers
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution to communicate with our servers located in the office.
What is most valuable?
OpenVPN Access Server is a simple and easy-to-use solution that I can use myself without anybody's help.
What needs improvement?
The solution should provide a faster connection, and its security could be improved. The solution’s stability could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpenVPN Access Server for two to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the solution a seven or eight out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Around 50 users use the solution regularly in our organization.
I rate the solution’s scalability an eight or nine out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup is easy.
On a scale from one to ten, where one is complex and ten is easy, I rate the solution's initial setup a seven or eight out of ten.
What about the implementation team?
The solution’s deployment did not take much time.
What other advice do I have?
The solution was deployed on the cloud in our organization. More than 100 people are needed for the solution's deployment and maintenance.
Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Simple and effective
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity! After having downloaded the appliance you could be ready to deploy your accesses in a couple of hours. Very simple and very well documented. The customer support is also very effective.
What do you dislike about the product?
The administration gui could be improved with some useful features accessible only from command line.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Open VPN access server is our preferred solution to give home to office access to our workforce
Unlocking Secure Connections
What do you like best about the product?
Its user-friendly interface.
Easy to configure.
Provides secure connections.
Easy to configure.
Provides secure connections.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost is high for the advanced features.
It is time-consuming to keep up to date this server.
It is time-consuming to keep up to date this server.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides a secure connection within the team or organization.
It helps us to protect privacy by encrypting the internet traffic.
It helps us to protect privacy by encrypting the internet traffic.
Good enough VPN access and management
What do you like best about the product?
It has the option to configure 2FA, easy to manage and implement
What do you dislike about the product?
Its very difficult to reset the 2FA of a user who lost their phone
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to set up a new VPN without having to pay for that additional service in AWS and GCP and it is much more easier to configure
Open VPN
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to setup and configure for the users. Very user friendly and realiable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The admin GUI can be confusing sometimes to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reliable VPN connections for users. Also secure VPN connections.
Simple. Stable. No complaints.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of standing it up and general stability. Authentication integrates well with our SSO and the user portal is easy for users to navigate to get the right agent and profile to get connected to the VPN.
What do you dislike about the product?
Having to manually manage its updates, etc. But that's why this is the more economical choice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a simple, inexpensive way to keep our people secure on unsecured networks. OpenVPN Access Server was quick and easy to stand up and worked seamlessly so we didn't have to spend a lot of time supporting users who were trying to use it.
I have had a Great Experience with OpenVPN Access Server
What do you like best about the product?
I like the easy installation and well written documentation when you need support.
also I love the flexibility in licensing allow me to do more with the same set of licenses.
I give technical support to different customers that runs multiple branches and are connected through openvpn without a foss.
also I love the flexibility in licensing allow me to do more with the same set of licenses.
I give technical support to different customers that runs multiple branches and are connected through openvpn without a foss.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can't tell something I dislike, I have been working for more than 10 years with its Access Server
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
remote access for customer employees that need access to the main office systems.
Works as Needed
What do you like best about the product?
OpenVPN keeps our company connected without any major issues and provides a straightforward way for our users to connect.
What do you dislike about the product?
Downtime and support options. Downtime is expected and thankfully OpenVPN is often up and running again the same day if the issue isn't user error.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use OpenVPN for our remote employees to securely access the company network which is usually a flawless connection.
We are very happy with OpenVPN
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to setup, easy to use, we install, setup and forget it. It's always on and we secure all of our development and reporting servers.
What do you dislike about the product?
$9 per user if you have 10 ore more clients.
$7 per user if you have less than 10 clients.
Minimum connections is 5 clients.
$7 per user if you have less than 10 clients.
Minimum connections is 5 clients.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need secure connection to our development and reporting services. OpenVPN makes the life easier for us to manage this secure access.
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