[Livven]

It's easy – all you need is a standard webserver (any VPS will do, check out Low End Box [1] or just use Digital Ocean [2]) and that's it. No need to install or maintain any kind of VPN or proxy software. Just use the following command to connect to your fresh server:

    ssh -D 8080 username@ipaddress

That will establish a local SOCKS proxy which you can configure your browser (or any other application that supports proxies) to use, with localhost as the address and 8080 as the port.

The biggest difference to a VPN is that you need to separately configure every application to use the local proxy – otherwise, everything sent over the local proxy is encrypted and securely transferred (thanks to the SSH protocol) just like with a VPN.

Of course, you can also install a VPN server if you want, but that's probably a bit more complicated.

[1]: http://www.lowendbox.com/ [2]: https://www.digitalocean.com/