I've been using my Linode as a VPN lately since I do a lot of work in coffee shops and it works great. More recently I've been using it here in Bahrain to access sites that are blocked by the government (innocent ones that come up on HN, dunno why they're blocked), and US-only sites like Pandora.
However, Linode is kind of expensive for this purpose only (I also host my small website on it, though), and have been looking into maybe an AWS micro instance which I can spin up when I need it, or possibly others.
Anyone have good recommendations here for VPNs that are fast, relatively inexpensive, reliable, and other criteria that might be useful?
http://arpnetworks.com/ is ballin'. I've been using them for a few months now. Very fast upstreams. They're only on the west coast of the USA, though. They have a $10 option.
However, Linode is kind of expensive for this purpose only (I also host my small website on it, though), and have been looking into maybe an AWS micro instance which I can spin up when I need it, or possibly others.
Anyone have good recommendations here for VPNs that are fast, relatively inexpensive, reliable, and other criteria that might be useful?