[praveen9920]

Major issue I faced in this method is the network egress costs the cloud providers charge. I had to remind myself not to accidentally land on YouTube or some other video streaming sites.

Are there any cloud providers who don’t charge for network egress?

[CaptainOfCoit]

> Major issue I faced in this method

Biggest issue regular user might find with this is that basically all the VPS host' IP ranges are known, and plenty of websites give you a different (worse) experience compared to when using residential addresses, or straight up block you.

Personally I found the hassle to great, compared to using existing VPN services.

[giobox]

Exact same experience here. In the 2010s I ran my own VPN exit node on a dirt cheap VPS so I could access streaming content in my country of birth. Worked great for years, but nowadays so many sites simply block non-residential IP ranges that I gave up ages ago now.

It's a shame because deploying WireGuard was a simple two command process: git checkout followed by a `docker compose up -d` for me etc on a fresh VPS instance.

[immibis]

Yes, but search for "VPS" instead of "Cloud". "Cloud" is a marketing buzzword used to make people pay 10x-500x more than they have to. Although VPS providers are catching on, and starting to label their VPS services as "cloud" now.

[lxgr]

Many! OVH has unmetered plans, for example.