I am looking to setup a VPN server that is hosted in the cloud. I read that Google Cloud will probably charge me an arm and leg so I was wondering about Oracle’s free tier. I am located in Alabama, you can guess what I’m using this for.
Do you want to connect to this VPN to also access your home as well? Or just for certain viewing activities? For only certain viewing activities, I would get a commercial VPN provider that does not keep logs and is a paid service (so they are not selling your data). For also connecting to your home, look into Tailscale or Zerotier.
I don’t want to pay a commercial provider, I’d rather host it myself. I also would like a self hosted cloud solution to keep it from being resource intensive on my own stuff.