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Create Your Own VPN

Going back to China without a solid VPN is a nightmare. Tons of VPN's get banned in China, and the rest of them charges like crazy. Why don't you have your own personal private VPN?

To set up your own VPN, you NEED to have accounts for GCP or AWS .

I strongly encourage you to apply for a new account if you DO NOT have an account already. GCP gives you $300(+$54)credit, and AWS allows you to use Cloud service 1 year for free (some restrictions may apply). They are pretty much same.

The AWS free tier offers a 750 hours/month running time for all running VM instance(s). If all VM instances running time goes over 750 hours, extra fees will be charged. E.g. I kept a Ubuntu instance and a Centos instance running on AWS for a whole month. 2(instances) * 24(hour/day) * 31(day/month) = 1488 hrs. 1488 > 750, I paid an extra.

n = days in calendar month, alpha beta and gamma are daily average running time for each instance. If you are in free tire, you can only have ONE instance running 24/7. 1 * 24 * 31 = 744 hrs.

So keep it in mind, never have two or more than two instances keep running 24/7 unless you are Bruce Wayne.

Its all up to you to choose between Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Service. Personal speaking, I prefer GCP over AWS because of GCP's nicer UI. One thing worth mentioning is that you need to be aware of your GCP credit. Setting up a budget alert can prevent you from bankrupcy.

GCP:

Create Instance

You may need create your own project so that you could create a vm instance.

Set up Firewall

Create Firewall Rules

Create Rules For Ingress and Egress

Ingress:

Egress:

Use default VM instance for saving money(roughly $20/month).

AWS cloudformation does not support VPN