Name: openvpn

Website: https://openvpn.net

Last reviewed by: Clipper, April 2026

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OpenVPN on managed boxes

You can use your account on our shared servers to tunnel your internet connection through your seedbox via VPN. To achieve this, you need to set up OpenVPN on your local machine to connect to your seedbox.

Update Notes: The screenshots may be very obsolete and have not been rebuilt.

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Table of Contents

• OpenVPN setup per platform
  • Windows
  • OS X
  • Linux
• Possible problems and fixes

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OpenVPN setup per platform

Below are the setup instructions for Windows, OS X, and Linux.

Tip: The Config generators tab on your Bytesized dashboard provides ready-to-use config files for both OpenVPN and Viscosity. It also generates a FileZilla FTP config — see the FTP with FileZilla page if you need it.

Windows

1. Download OpenVPN GUI from here.
2. Go to the details page for the box you want to set up OpenVPN for on the Bytesized website.
3. Press Config generators then choose Generate OpenVPN config to download your config.
4. Extract the contents of the zip file and navigate to the folder where you extracted the files, right click it and select Start OpenVPN with this config file.
5. Enter your username and password.
6. Make sure to run OpenVPN GUI as admin so you can use the VPN through your browser!
7. Follow the marked parts on the picture below so your OpenVPN can work.

OS X

We are going to use Viscosity to set up OpenVPN on OS X.

1. Download Viscosity from their website.
2. Drag it to your Applications folder and start it.
3. Go to the details page for the box you want to set up OpenVPN for on the Bytesized website.
4. Press Config generators then choose Generate Viscosity config to download your config.
5. Unzip the contents if your Finder did not do so yet.
6. Double click the Bytesized.visc file to import it to Viscosity.
7. Press the Viscosity icon in your toolbar and press Connect.

Linux

Command line solution

Install OpenVPN using your distribution's package manager. For example, on Ubuntu or Debian:

apt install openvpn

Save the configuration file as /etc/openvpn/seedbox-vpn.conf and the certificate as /etc/openvpn/ca.crt.

To connect through the VPN, run:

sudo openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/seedbox-vpn.conf

This will route all traffic through your box.

Tip: You need to either be in the directory of your ca.crt when you run this command, or set an absolute path in your config file.

Tip: Your SSH password is the password needed to use this. Please make a note of this — your Dashboard password will not work if you have changed your SSH password.

Graphical solution

sudo apt install network-manager-openvpn

Left click the network manager icon. Go to VPN Connections → Configure VPN.... Click Add and select OpenVPN.

"Connection name":  myseedbox (or whatever you prefer)

"General"
  "Gateway":        "yourserver".bytesized-hosting.com

"Authentication"
  "Type":           "Password"
  "User name":      your_username
  "Password":       your_password
  "CA Certificate": "Browse to the downloaded ca file"

Then click Advanced... and check (leave the rest):

"General"
  [x] "Use LZO data compression"
  [x] "Use TCP connection"

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Possible problems and fixes

No internet access after connection to VPN

Some people do not get internet access after connecting. You can try adding the following nameservers — this resolves the issue in most cases: 195.24.72.6 and 83.243.8.6.

Windows

• Click on Control Panel and navigate to Network Connections, or click on the internet icon in the system tray. Once connected to the VPN, it should have created a new connection.

• The new connection may be labeled as "unidentified" — that's fine. Click as indicated above to get:

• Select Internet Protocol Version 4 and click Properties. Fill in the DNS servers as shown: