OpenVPN Access Server Reviews

We primarily use the solution for a secure VPN connection.

Overall, it's okay and performance-wise it's fine.

It is easy to set up.

The solution is stable.

It can scale well. 

It is open-source and free to use. 

The performance could be a bit better. The stability could always be enhanced. 

When there are too many concurrent users trying to connect at the same time, there may be a bit of a bottleneck. When all people would like to reconnect to the VPN at the same time, the performance and availability of the solution could be better.

I've been using the solution for almost a year.

The solution is quite stable and has okay performance. However, it could be better. We'd like the performance to be more robust.

It's a scalable product. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. 

We have around 2,000 users on the solution right now. 

We're always open to increasing usage. 

I haven't dealt with technical support just yet. I can't speak to how helpful they would be. 

We did not previously use a different solution. 

With OpenVPN, the amount of people you need to deploy and maintain it depends on how many nodes you would need and the number of users as well as whether you are operating 24/7 or operating only during work hours. Likely, you would need between three and six people.

This is an open-source solution. We can use it for free. 

I'd recommend the solution to other users and organizations. 

I would rate the product eight out of ten as I have been mostly pleased with its capabilities. 

Our primary use case was to give mobile knowledge workers a secure connection across the Internet to our LAN, whether by laptop, mobile tablet or smart phone.

It allowed people to remotely access files from their mobile devices. It was so easy for end-users to use that they were able to work more efficiently no matter where they were, whether at a client’s campus, home, traveling – wherever they had a device and internet access.

This open-source solution provided the easiest UX for our end-users and had the greatest interoperability with all the operating systems we used, including but not limited to: iOS, Android, OS X, Windows, and Linux.

The upgrade path from older versions was more difficult than we wanted to tackle, so we ran an older version of the software for longer than I wanted. Patching, updating, and migrating to newer versions was a problem for us. That said, we were on a rather old version that I inherited yet it worked rock solid.

No issues.

We more than doubled our staff at my previous company and our OpenVPN appliance handled it well.

Tech support wasn’t needed during my 5 years administrating OpenVPN.

OpenVPN was already implemented when I took over the IT department. I do know that there was also a Cisco VPN product in place, but it was finicky and many of our end-users had issues with the Cisco VPN. At the time, it also didn’t work on mobile devices and the required ports were blocked by certain ISPs (like some hotel internet connections, cellular providers, etc.)

In-house expertise.

At one point I had to purchase addition connection licenses. I was very pleased with the pricing and licensing; so much easier than navigating the confusing jungle of Microsoft and Cisco licensing and pricing. That alone made the product a delight to manage.

I didn’t purchase OpenVPN, but I have evaluated other products for other departments I managed at other companies. Cisco and Fortinet are the two I remember off hand.

We did not use this product on AWS. We hosted the server on our network.

My advice would be, if OpenVPN fits your environment and needs, it’s a great solution. Do it.

I have an accounting office and I am using OpenVPN to access customer networks. I am an accountant, so I installed a PSN for all my clients and they allow me to access their networks and accounting server to do the closing of accounting every month. I use OpenVPN to access the networks.

I would like to see continued advanced security implementation.

I have been using OpenVPN Access Server for the past five years.

The stability is very reliable in my experience.

I have found that OpenVPN Access Server is scalable.

I have not had to contact technical support at this point.

The setup is straightforward and deployed in less than an hour.

The price point is fantastic since it is free.

I would rate OpenVPN Access Server a nine out of ten.

I primarily use Open VPN Access Server as a remote-access VPN to log into our infrastructure.

Open VPN Access Server could be more user-friendly.

I've been using Open VPN Access Server for three years.

Open VPN Access Server is fully stable.

Open VPN Access Server is scalable.

The initial setup was easy.

Open VPN Access Server is open-source and free of charge.

I would strongly advise anybody considering installing Open VPN Access Server to use it. I would rate it as ten out of ten.

We use the solution to access remote services. 

I want the tool to be faster. We have experienced connectivity issues while using OpenVPN and FortiClient. 

I have been using the product for five years. 

The tool is stable and I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

The tool is not scalable. We have two users for the product. 

The tool's setup is complex. The product's deployment takes 30 minutes to complete. We followed the tool's documentation to complete the setup. 

I would rate the product an eight out of ten. You need to study the solution's documentation and get familiar with it before implementing the tool in your organization. 

I have used this solution for five years (2008-2013) as the company's main business solution, and then, for a year (2017), as a custom solution for secure AWS access.

I was using it on AWS to create secure access to internal VPC services. It is a lightweight, easy to setup solution.

Several years ago, I was working on a Consumer VPN service provider, and OpenVPN was a great base to provide such services. It is much easier to scale and troubleshoot compared to regular Windows-based VPN solutions or PPTP daemon.

• Easy to setup and manage
• Great documentation
• Community support

At the moment, I am not working too closely with the product.

No issues.

No issues.

On a scale of one to 10, I would rate technical support as a nine.

Just regular Windows Server PPTP/L2TP and Linux PPTP. OpenVPN is clearly better than the regular solutions.

50/50 (straightforward/complex). It requires some experience of Linux server configuration. If you are an experienced Linux user, setup is pretty fast and simple.

Enjoy implementing it!

We use OpenVPN Access Server to connect from site to site from our data center to our customer site and to dial and access our VPN to our network.

I have been using OpenVPN Access Server for approximately one year.

OpenVPN Access Server is very stable.

I have found OpenVPN Access Server to be scalable.

We have approximately 10 users using this solution.

I have been using Palo Alto and the Fortinet VPN as a comparison to OpenVPN Access Server.

OpenVPN Access Server is complicated to deploy, but we have a script that helps us with it. If we are using a script, it takes us approximately 15 minutes to deploy and without a script, it will take much longer. The process could be easier.

We did the deployment of the OpenVPN Access Server in-house.

We are using the community version of the OpenVPN Access Server and it is free.

I would recommend OpenVPN Access Server to others.

I rate OpenVPN Access Server an eight out of ten.

It allows our employees to work remotely across Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms.

Highly configurable. You can create your own custom client installer and can rebrand the server-side program.

Better GUI.

Also, we switched more to Cisco AnyConnect due to the Win 10 stability issues.

There were some issues when Windows 10 initially came out. However, after some OpenVPN and Windows 10 patches, it stabilized.

No issues with scalability.

I have never used their technical support.

Relatively straightforward. We just needed to insert the configuration file on each workstation.

It's open-source.

I would rate it eight out of 10 because of its multi-platform capability and stability. It's a solid, free VPN option that fits any platform environment.