[mikeyur]

I just use Viscosity which is a menubar app that lets you easily connect to an OpenVPN connection (you punch in the address, authentication type, etc and it lets you just click the server name from your menubar to connect).

I don't host my own server though, I use http://witopia.net I think I pay like $50-60/yr. But they give you a bunch of servers to connect to worldwide: http://cl.ly/2zEY

[fragmede]

There's also Tunnelblick as a free and open source alternative to Viscosity - http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/