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I use self-hosted on a cloud bought by crypto, but it's primarily because my relatives living in a country with almost all VPN solutions and protocols blocked, so you always need to figure everything out yourself and try something new.
What cloud service would you recommend? Maybe I'm over thinking I but I was looking into offshore VPS. But don't know if I really want to go through it all.
I wouldn't advertize anything, but some criterias to filter by: crypto payments available (that's a good scrutiny even if you don't pay with it), server location and legal address not in the vault 7 if that matters. The VPN installation itself is pretty easy, you can find guides on the internet or ask AI. I believe, on the official OpenVPN pages there might be a simple guide as well. You just need to use terminal and that's all.