G2

Verified User in Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/28/2026

"Straightforward Deployments and Reliable Remote Access with CloudConnexa"

4/5

What do you like best about OpenVPN CloudConnexa?

What I like best is how little infrastructure I have to own. Deploying the connectors was the part I expected to fight with, and it was straightforward — put a connector on the network you want reachable and routing through it just works, including into cloud subnets. For day-to-day remote access that means no VPN appliance to babysit.

The admin portal is the other half of it. Users, groups, networks and which group can reach what are all in one place, clear enough that I’m not digging through docs for routine changes. Onboarding a new hire takes a couple of minutes.

Performance has been a non-issue, which is the best thing you can say about a VPN. Connections stay up and staff don’t come to me saying things feel slow — the VPN isn’t something they think about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenVPN CloudConnexa?

The routing model took me longer to get comfortable with than the rest of the product. Networks, routes and access groups interact in ways that aren’t obvious up front, and I got there by trial and error more than by reading — a few access rules behaved differently than I expected until I understood how the pieces fit. Once it clicked it’s been fine, but I’d have appreciated a clearer worked example of a typical small-business layout in the setup flow rather than having to infer the right shape for ours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenVPN CloudConnexa solving and how is that benefiting you?

It gives our staff secure access to internal resources from wherever they’re working, without us running VPN hardware to do it. Compared to maintaining appliances or self-hosting an OpenVPN server, the value is clear: no hardware to buy, patch or replace, no server for me to keep current, and the cost is predictable.

Onboarding was self-service — the documentation was good enough that I got the whole thing stood up without opening a support ticket, which is worth something on its own. The practical benefit is that remote access has become a background utility instead of a thing I maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.