If you're spending $5 on a VPS, aren't there actual VPN services that cost $5 or less that you don't have to manually set up and destroy? If you're just doing

If you're spending $5 on a VPS, aren't there actual VPN services that cost $5 or less that you don't have to manually set up and destroy? If you're just doing it for fun (kinda like "hosting your own mail") I recommend setting up an IKEv2 IPSec VPN. It might be the hardest VPN to set up? But you learn a good deal about VPNs and networking. Most OSes ship with a native IPSec VPN implementation, and most "enterprise" VPNs are some variation of IPSec. Mobile devices, internal firewalls, internet gateways, enterprise AWS tunnels, etc. You can keep getting fancier by adding VLANs, GRE, BGP, certificates, RADIUS.