Last year we looked at services you could use to secure connections to servers and websites when you were on the public Internet. This week we’re going to take a look at setting up the Server app’s VPN service, which you can use to gain secure access to your private network on the public Internet.
The acronym VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, and VPNs allow users to be anywhere in the world and create a secure connection to private networks. VPNs secure your data using data encryption and tunneling, If you want more information on how VPNs work, take a look here, but in simplest terms, using a VPN is like connecting a very long ethernet cable from a computer anywhere in the world to your private network.
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