Consider the traffic, not from your computer to VPN to the internet, but from the internet to VPN to your computer. You will require that all traffic received b

Consider the traffic, not from your computer to VPN to the internet, but from the internet to VPN to your computer. You will require that all traffic received by a particular port at an IP address at the VPN provider be forwarded to your computer. In this manner, if you have a website with sensitive content, you can make it available to the Internet, with a VPN IP address. The IP address of the owner of the website is hidden behind the VPN.