[myrandomcomment]

I am not sure using your own is a good idea. Every time I was in China for the last 3 years they would quickly find and block my small startups VPN. I was able to send an email and ask someone to move it to a new IP. Now imaging you have your own setup and they block it, as well as access to the provider you used to create the VM that runs it. Using something like Nord or the like at least you know that they will keep changing the IPs. Your mileage might vary, but this was my experience.

[VectorLock]

I guess if you really wanted to be clever you could set up a number of IP addresses and if your VPN doesn't see you login for, say, a day, switch to another IP. Or just give your VM 14 addresses and rotate them as you need. For a 2 week trip/14 addresses this would cost you about $26 on AWS.

[blacksmith_tb]

Digital Ocean will let you use their Floating IPs to do this for no charge (I have an Algo VM I'm paying them to host).

1: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/floating-ips/

[acct776]

You wouldn't advertise you were using your personal VPS as a VPN.

[acdha]

Your activity advertises that to anyone who can see the traffic. Even if you use a popular port, the traffic volume and timing easily stands out — and if you’re actually in China ask what they’d conclude from a client which does no other traffic except for that one IP/protocol/port, unlike basically every other device.