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