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OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey vs VNS3 comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

OpenVPN Community Edition -...
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
SSL VPN (5th)
VNS3
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
AWS Marketplace (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey and VNS3 aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is designed for SSL VPN and holds a mindshare of 2.5%.
VNS3, on the other hand, focuses on AWS Marketplace, holds 0.2% mindshare, down 0.3% since last year.
SSL VPN Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey2.5%
Ivanti Connect Secure14.4%
Citrix Gateway11.6%
Other71.5%
SSL VPN
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VNS30.2%
Stardog Enterprise Knowledge Graph Platform0.4%
VPN Server Solution using SoftEther VPN Server on Windows Server 20190.3%
Other99.1%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

Manmohan Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Secure cloud migrations have accelerated as our teams access critical workloads remotely
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey can be improved by looking forward to recommendations regarding compute sizing, which is necessary. I have seen multiple third-party solutions demanding configurations based on compute and memory aspects. However, what I have learned from OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is that it comes with minimal configuration, but I am always stringent about how many client VPN connections it can handle. There has to be some bifurcation regarding this. I have not experienced any access lag so far or any performance issues. I do not see any problems with the configurations or recommendations provided by OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey for 100 or 200 users simultaneously, but I still foresee a need for some recommendations from OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey regarding the number of user connections it can handle given certain configurations.
FA
Analytics Engineer at acquisition.ai
Centralized networking has secured multi-cloud data pipelines and improves analytics reliability
VNS3 could improve in terms of ease of setup, as while it is powerful, initial configuration for complex multi-cloud topologies can still feel quite technical and requires strong networking knowledge. Another potential improvement would be to tighten native integration with modern data stack tools; Airflow, dbt, and cloud data warehouses can benefit from more out-of-the-box connectivity templates. Additionally, the user interface and observability experience could be more modern and intuitive, especially for quickly diagnosing network flows without diving deep into logs. A pain point regarding needed improvements is that troubleshooting can still feel quite network engineering heavy. For data teams in my organization, we often want more pipeline-level visibility, such as directly seeing which ETL jobs or data flows are impacted when a tunnel or route changes. I would also appreciate more automation around policy setup, such as having auto-generated secure network templates for common data architectures such as AWS to Snowflake or on-premises to BigQuery, which would significantly reduce setup time.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey has a noticeable impact on both operational efficiency and security in day-to-day support work."
"OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is the best in class client VPN solution that one can opt for."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its stability and user-friendly UI."
"We use the solution to connect to our internal infrastructure in our data center."
"The best features OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey offers are that it is fast while connecting; it takes hardly one or two seconds once we enter our password and the security code."
"OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey has made a remarkable compute saving from the perspective when we need secure communication to connect to the AWS cloud tenant and is a quick, efficient solution rather than looking forward to any other solution."
"The flexibility of OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey positively impacts my experience because being able to access all my files and other applications on any device, even when I am away from home, makes it certainly valuable."
"People should try VNS3 as we have not faced any issues with this product and I recommend it to others."
"VNS3 has positively impacted my organization by centralizing management and reducing operations overhead in terms of manpower and cost."
 

Cons

"The product's initial setup phase is not straightforward, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The biggest friction point with OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is usually around configuration complexity and troubleshooting, especially in more complex client networks."
"I would like to get less updates from the solution."
"Regarding reliability, I have faced downtime and connection issues approximately once every two months."
"VNS3 could improve in terms of ease of setup, as while it is powerful, initial configuration for complex multi-cloud topologies can still feel quite technical and requires strong networking knowledge."
"VNS3 could benefit from additional features such as the ability to share files through a pre-signed URL, which would be useful for team members to collaborate."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
28%
Comms Service Provider
16%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
31%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Healthcare Company
11%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey?
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is very flexible, but there are features that would significantly improve day-to-day operations, especially in MSPs. The biggest improvement I would s...
What advice do you have for others considering OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey?
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey definitely improved team collaboration on operational coordination, especially in a multi-engineer MSP environment. One of the biggest changes is crea...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey?
Our team mostly learns through hands-on usage and internal documentation rather than formal vendor training. OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is fairly intuitive once the environment ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VNS3?
The pricing or licensing is predictable. It is instance-based plus bandwidth tiers but can rise with heavy throughput or many endpoints.
What needs improvement with VNS3?
The areas where VNS3 could be improved include native integration with cloud providers such as SD-WAN or transit services, deeper telemetry and analytics, and simpler GUI workflows for large multi-...
What is your primary use case for VNS3?
My main use case for VNS3 is secure multi-cloud and hybrid connectivity, using VNS3 as an overlay VPN controller. I use it for IPsec site-to-site tunnels, encrypted mesh between cloud VPCs, and cen...
 

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