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Open VPN
What do you like best about the product?
it is always reachable from anywhere and secure
What do you dislike about the product?
number of connection is too less and speed is slow
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
documentation is weak. need better documentation
OpenVPN Review
What do you like best about the product?
It is secure, fast and easy to setup and work with.The support is excellent and fast. We use it on daily basis for our local staff and vendors. Alot of features are very helpful to our staff and it is easy to integrate with our local IAM solution. We hve implemented it in one day
What do you dislike about the product?
In Saudi Arabia, OpenVPN site is blocked by Internet provider. This makes it difficult to pay online for the subscription.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All our local admin staff and vendors are using OpenVPN on daily basis to support our current apps.
Great Review, Great Product
What do you like best about the product?
We enjoy using OpenVPn because of the high level of security it offers. Our users often use Open VPn for remote access. Open VPN offers a private experience while online.
What do you dislike about the product?
Open VPN can be very resource intensive and requires a server to run. The overhead can be costly for some, we use it in an amazon virtual server enviroment and there is a fee to run the server.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Open VPn for remote users to access their cloud servers from remote locations. Open VPN offere ene to end encryption so that the user's sensitive data is protected from cyber theats and users that are not allowed to access such data.
Simple but effective VPN solution (though needs a better web console)
What do you like best about the product?
We don't have too many login issues or dropped connections with OpenVPN. I've used other vpn services in the past and they can be a bit shaky at times causing disconnecitons or issues with users being able to log on.
We have had issues of those kinds with OpenVPN but they are usually solved quickly and happen fairly rare.
I'm also happy about the speed of the vpn network. I don't notice any significant delay's when on the vpn vs when off.
We have had issues of those kinds with OpenVPN but they are usually solved quickly and happen fairly rare.
I'm also happy about the speed of the vpn network. I don't notice any significant delay's when on the vpn vs when off.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am the admin and the web-based gui console is very limited. You have to do things like reset mfa codes through a terminal. I wish I could just locate a user's account in the web console and reset there.
Seriously OpenVPN, this is something that should be possible.
Seriously OpenVPN, this is something that should be possible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
OpenVPN allows us to protect our IP and our customer's data behind the firewall and heavily restrict the access to outside users.
We are a fully remote company and without a solid VPN, we would not be able to function.
We are a fully remote company and without a solid VPN, we would not be able to function.
OpenVPN is a rather reliable tool, which rarely has problems and has high availability, but it lacks q
What do you like best about the product?
Resilience, with two servers, it is very rare not to have two servers available. This allows for high availability, which is important when there is on-call duty in a company.
What do you dislike about the product?
Updates are not frequent, and sometimes they are buggy. The beta periods might not be long enough. Some enterprise options are not finished, like SSO, which is very important but unavailable when connecting to the panel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This allows us to connect to the on-prem servers of our infrastructure, and thus avoid exposing servers to the public.
Good product
What do you like best about the product?
It's quite stable and we rarely had any issues with the product.
What do you dislike about the product?
What we don't like is that we have to maintain the VM/server by ourselves. A complete end-to-end managed solution, which is easy to integrate into our existing VPC, might be in our interests for the future.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it to access services hosted within our VPC on GCP on client applications.
Easy to use for non-IT person
What do you like best about the product?
It already have a AMI in AWS. It is easy to manage and add new people to the VPN server access.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost is high comparatively speaking. Also memory utilization may not be optimized as I have run out CPU memory when more than 12 people joined the VPN.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To connect to AWS resources directly. Helps in securing and authenticating people connecting to business infrustructure from their remote home.
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
solid product, but no longer budget-friendly
What do you like best about the product?
This paid implementation of OpenVPN is very reliable and easy-to-use. This webGUI makes OpenVPN relatively simple to get running, and makes the common settings of OpenVPN very accessible. The solution runs equally well as on-premise or in hosted environment, and downtime is negligible. The few times I have had questions for customer support, they have been answered quickly and efficiently.
What do you dislike about the product?
The licensing cost has escalated so much over the last 5 years or so that OpenVPN Access Server is no longer a no-brainer solution for small-business VPNs. The built-in VPNs on most firewalls serve basic needs for much less, and more robust solutions with better reporting and equally flexible user access permissions are no longer wildly overpriced. I would seriously compare alternatives before implementing Access Server in a new environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Remote staff access to on-premise business application servers.
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
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