---
title: "A couple of nice VPN provider"
url: https://infosecurity.ch/20101017/a-couple-of-nice-vpn-provider/
date: 2010-10-17
author: Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
language: en
tags: [encryption, privacy]
---

# A couple of nice VPN provider

There are a lot of reason why one would need to access internet trough a VPN.

For example if you live in a country blocking certain contents (like anti-local-government website, porn, etc) and/or protocols (like skype, voip) you would probably want to move your internet connectivity outside the nasty blocking country by using encrypted VPN tunnels.

I evaluated several hosted VPN server and a couple of them sounds quite good among the widespread offering of such services:

**[SwissVPN](http://www.swissvpn.net/)**

Exit to the internet from Switzerland.

Cost 6 CHF / months

Optional public fixed IP address

Useful if you need:

- Just bypass local country filters with good high bandwidth
- Expose public services trough the VPN with the optional fixed public IP address.

**[Overplay](https://www.overplay.net/)**

Exit to the internet by choosing among 20 different countries (each time you connect).

Useful if you need to do:

- business intelligence on competitor (appearing to come from country X when connecting them)
- see film/telefilm allowed only from national IP web spaces
- see google results among different countries