What is OpenVPN?
It provides flexible VPN solutions to secure your data communications, whether it's for Internet privacy, remote access for employees, securing IoT, or for networking Cloud data centers. Our VPN Server software solution can be deployed on-premises using standard servers or virtual appliances, or on the cloud.
OpenVPN is a tool in the Virtual Private Cloud category of a tech stack.
Who uses OpenVPN?
Companies
65 companies reportedly use OpenVPN in their tech stacks, including payever, Armut, and marcapo.
Developers
201 developers on StackShare have stated that they use OpenVPN.
Decisions about OpenVPN
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose OpenVPN in their tech stack.
Bryan Dady
SRE Manager at Subsplash · | 6 upvotes · 46K views
Do you know of a 'commercial' WireGuard packages that might be usable for startup/corporate VPN solution as an alternative to OpenVPN or Tailscale? So far, I've found Perimeter 81 and AppGate. If you have any real-world experience with a WireGuard solution for a business setting, I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you.
OpenVPN Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to OpenVPN?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
