suggestions to remote control hundreds of raspbian/raspberry iot devices

matteoraggi

Hi, acutally I am managing about 20 reapberry/raspbian devices trough dataplicity.
My plan is to grow the numbero f the iot devices (raspberry with raspbian) to hundreds and thousands and stop to use dataplicity to move to openvpn.
Which services do you suggestm e to use and which are the costs?
I just need rarely to go to the devices and control them, for example maximum 1 hour monthly for each device trough terminal/cli.
Which would be th costs?
here the price is for only 10 devices: https://openvpn.net/pricing/
I checked amazon ws and for 25 devices then it costs: $1,400 yearly: $0.267/hr.
And again on amazon ws 500 devices would cost: $1.766/hr :10,500 yeatly.It looks strnage to me that openvpn that is not a service ready would costs more of dataplicity, so maybe the costs are only applyed to the hours of usage and not for all the 24 hours?
Please help and have a great day!

The Johan

For your purpose it may be better to look at the OpenVPN open source project, and set up a server with that, and connect your devices to that. The open source version is free.

For ease of use and manageability, it may be better to use Access Server, but it seems a waste of money to use that for devices that hardly use the VPN tunnel at all. Access Server is more suited for like people making connections from their devices to a company network and using it daily, and having some control over what's going on.

For your use-case the open source project seems better suited, but requires a bit of learning.