Stop renting your privacy.

Mullvad. NordVPN. 1Password. Zapier. Google Drive. Every month, you pay rent on tools you could own outright for less than the price of one of them.

A personal VPN isn't a product. It's a privilege — and you can have it for the cost of a cup of coffee per month. We set up your VPS in a single afternoon. $49, once.

What you actually get

A hardened Contabo VPS (~$5/mo, paid direct to Contabo, you own the keys) running one of these:

🛡️ Personal VPN — your choice of WireGuard or OpenVPN

WireGuard — modern, fast, easiest on phones (low battery drain). Pick this if you mostly use it from home, café wifi, or other unrestricted networks.
OpenVPN — older, slower, but configurable on TCP/443 so it looks like regular HTTPS. Pick this if you need it to work through corporate firewalls, hotel networks, or in countries that block WireGuard's UDP traffic.
Not sure which? Tell us your use case in your email — we'll pick for you.

Both options share the rest:

Unlimited devices. Your phone, laptop, tablet, partner's phone, work laptop, kid's iPad — all of them.
Unlimited bandwidth. No "fair use" cap, no throttling.
Your traffic never touches a VPN provider. Not Mullvad's logs. Not NordVPN's "no-logs" promise you can't verify. Just your VPS, in a country you chose.
Replaces: Mullvad ($5/mo, 5 devices) · NordVPN ($12/mo, 10 devices) · ProtonVPN Plus ($10/mo).
Math: a family of 4 on Mullvad = $20/mo. Your own VPN = $5/mo, no device limit.

⚡ n8n — unlimited automations

Unlimited workflows. Unlimited executions. Unlimited webhooks.
Connect 400+ apps the way Zapier does — but the data stays on your server.
Self-host the same tool startups pay $500/mo for.
Replaces: Zapier Pro ($50/mo, 2,000 tasks) · Make.com Pro ($16/mo, 10k ops).
Math: if you'd hit Zapier's 750-task free cap in a month, n8n saves you $20–500/mo immediately. Forever.

🔐 Vaultwarden — your own password vault

Bitwarden-compatible. Same browser extensions, same mobile apps, same UX.
Unlimited users, unlimited shared collections, unlimited file attachments.
TOTP codes, passkeys, SSH keys, secure notes — all hosted by you, not a company that could be breached.
Replaces: 1Password Family ($5/mo, 5 users) · Bitwarden Premium Family ($40/yr, 6 users).
Math: a small team of 10 on 1Password Business = $80/mo. Vaultwarden = $5/mo total.

☁️ Nextcloud — your own cloud

Files, calendar, contacts, photos, video calls — all in one place.
Storage limited only by your VPS disk (Contabo gives you 200 GB on the smallest tier).
Sync across all your devices. Share files with anyone via link.
Replaces: Google One 2 TB ($10/mo) · iCloud+ 2 TB ($10/mo) · Dropbox Plus 2 TB ($12/mo).
Math: 200 GB on Google = $3/mo per user. Nextcloud = $5/mo total, any number of users.

What we do for $49

Everything you'd otherwise spend a weekend on:

Provision the VPS, harden Ubuntu: non-root sudo user, SSH key auth, password login off, UFW firewall, fail2ban, automatic security updates.
Install Docker + your VPN of choice (WireGuard or OpenVPN) + Nginx Proxy Manager (free SSL via Let's Encrypt on your subdomain).
Install one of the apps above behind SSL, with backups configured.
Hand you a one-page doc with every credential, every URL, the backup command, and the upgrade command.

Done in under 24 hours. Usually one afternoon.

What it costs (total)

One-time: $49 (our setup work) + $0 (Contabo)
Monthly: $0 (us) + ~$5 (Contabo VPS, paid direct)
Total to start: $49 once + ~$5/mo

Compare that to the $30–80/mo you'd pay to replace these tools with their commercial equivalents. The setup pays for itself in 2 months. After that, every month is pure savings — for the next 5+ years, on the same VPS.

What we don't do

No production / SaaS workloads. This is for personal use, families, small teams, home labs.
No compliance work (HIPAA, PCI, SOC2). For that, see our hire page.
No ongoing support included. If your VPS breaks in 3 months because Contabo rebooted into a different kernel, that's on you (or hire us again).
No migration from existing setups. This is a fresh install on a new VPS.

Why $49? (And why not free, or $500?)

If it were free, our queue would be infinite and we'd never sleep. If it were $500, you might as well pay Mullvad+1Password+Zapier for 6 months and stay rented.

$49 is the price where the people who actually want to own their stack will pay, and the people who just want to chat won't. It pays for the hour of work and the post-setup email support if something looks off.

How we know it works — every step is on the blog

We don't make this up. The exact configs we install are the ones we publish:

If reading those makes you think "I can do this in an evening" — do it. If it makes you think "I'd pay $49 to skip the rabbit hole" — that's why this page exists.

How to order

Email [email protected] with subject [vps-setup] and tell us which app you want (VPN — WireGuard or OpenVPN — or n8n, Vaultwarden, or Nextcloud).
We reply within 24 hours with a short form — your contact email, the subdomain you want for SSL, and either temporary SSH or a public key.
We do the work and email you the handover doc + invoice for $49 (PayPal, Wise, or bank transfer).
You pay after we deliver. If you're not happy, you don't pay.

[email protected] — subject [vps-setup]. Usually back within hours.

— enim