WireGuard vs OpenVPN: my experience

I use a VPN tunnel to administer my VPS and to connect back to my home network when I am away. Over the past year I have used both OpenVPN and WireGuard for this purpose. Here is how they compare in practice. The setup My use case is straightforward: I need a secure tunnel from my laptop to my VPS for SSH, web dashboards, and occasionally reaching services on my home LAN. Nothing exotic — just point-to-point connectivity between machines I control. ...

February 2, 2026 · 4 min · Martin Lindqvist