Setting Up WireGuard VPN on Your Own Server Most commercial VPN providers promise "no logs" and "military-grade encryption" while routing your traffic through servers you don't control. You're trusting a marketing claim with your entire internet activity. There's a better option: run your own VPN. A WireGuard VPS setup gives you full control over your traffic, your logs, and your encryption keys. WireGuard is faster than OpenVPN, easier to configure than IPSec, and the entire codebase is around 4,000 lines — small enough to audit. I run WireGuard on the same Hetzner VPS that hosts this blog, and the setup took me about 15 minutes. By the end of this post, you'll have a working WireGuard VPN server with client configs for your phone and laptop. Prerequisites A Linux VPS with a public IP (I use Hetzner — here's how I set mine up ) SSH access to your server ( hardened, ideally ) Docker and Docker Compose installed A device to connect from (Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, or Android) Why WireGuard Over OpenVPN?…