A virtual private network, also known as a VPN, is a private network that extends across a public network or the internet. It enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network. From all of the possible options, the most optimal ones are between PPTP and OpenVPN.
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A Point-To-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) allows you to implement your own VPN very quickly and is compatible with most mobile devices. Even though PPTP is less secure than OpenVPN, it is also faster and uses fewer CPU resources.

In Time4VPS Standard VPS, the PPTP module is not enabled by default, and it can only be used in our KVM Linux VPS.

After the PPTP module is enabled from our side, we can start installing it:

Now you should edit /etc/pptpd.conf:

and add the following lines:

Next, you should set up authentication for PPTP by adding users and passwords:

It should look like this (we added one test user):

Where client is the username, server is type of service – pptpd for our example, secret is the password, and IP addresses specifies which IP address may authenticate. By setting ‘*’ in IP addresses field, you specify that you would accept username/password pair for any IP.

Now we need to add DNS servers to /etc/ppp/pptpd-options. Open file:

And uncomment (delete "#" symbols at the beginning of the lines) these lines:

After this restart PPTPD:

To enable IPv4 forward change /etc/sysctl.conf file:

By uncommenting the line:

To make changes active, run:

Adding iptables
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Execute this command to add an iptables rule:

You are done. Just reboot your server, and you should be able to connect using PPTPD and send all your traffic through this server.
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