The original post: /r/vpn by /u/threepartshuman on 2025-03-12 18:06:47.

About a week ago, a certain site used for home stays started having serious issues when I’m connected through a VPN. It’s much worse than before.

In the past, I occasionally had minor problems when using the VPN while using the home stay site. But now, it’s a struggle just to get anything to load.

• On the mobile app, I have to hit “Retry” over and over.
• On Linux, with VPN turned on, I usually get this message: “Stay tuned. Error code: 503. [Home stay site] is temporarily unavailable, but we’re working hard…”

As soon as I turn off the VPN, everything works fine.

I’ve already tried switching VPN to stealth protocol, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Has anyone else run into this? Any suggestions on how to keep using a VPN with the home stay site without all these issues? Are there general settings I should be using or other VPNs that would work better?

Thanks in advance!