The price is competitive but I've found another important factor when VPN shopping for VMS's is if that data center tends to be abused by scraping projects.
Craigslist for instance is very slow when accessing via a VPN on Digital Ocean but quick when accessed via one hosted on Rackspace.
Google Scholar may send you through captcha hell for 10 rounds or so every few minutes if you're hoping on from a fishy ip.
The only time I had trouble with sites protected by Cloudflare was when viewing through Tor or AWS.
From Algo's readme: Does not claim to provide anonymity or censorship avoidance.
Algo’s use case is confidentiality, protecting your last mile connection including public wifi points. It is a solution to the problems given in “Want to use my wifi?”
Anonymity is a much harder problem to solve, and I personally wouldn’t be comfortable with any of the options claiming to offer anonymity, especially a commercial VPN provider.
One will make different VPN/proxy choices depending on one's priorities and threat models — here, for example, the tension between anonymity, which is most likely to lead you to choose a commercial VPN with a large number of users at each endpoint, and privacy, which is most likely to lead you to choose a private VPN solution where you have full control over the endpont's settings, logging, etc. These aren't the only factors, and neither option perfectly solves either, but carefully thinking through what you actually expect a VPN to be protecting you from is important.
> Setup is automated. Just answer a few questions, and Algo will build your VPN for you.
There are 5 steps before you get to the "Setup is automated" part! They're easy enough steps for someone with a bit of tech chops behind them and I will go easy on the first two (Set up VPS, download Algo) but come on, that is not automated!