What VPN service do you use?

See the previous thread here for some suggestions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7029845#up_7042268

If you go the DIY route, check out these shell scripts for installing+configuring PPTP and OpenVPN servers: https://github.com/cwaffles

If you're not sure where to get a VPS suitable for VPN service, look at lowendstock.com or lowendbox.com or lowendtalk.com/categories/offers

If you choose a VPS provider which uses OpenVZ for virtualisation, make sure they let you enable TUN/TAP and PPP from the control panel. Almost all do. Some mention it explicitly.

If you want a cheap non-DIY solution look at http://vpn.sh/

I've been using PIA ( https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ ) for more than an year and it has never failed me. High bandwidth & availiblity

Amazon EC2 Micro instance. It costs a little more a month (but less than $15 even with heavily bandwidth utilisation) but the security and flexibility is worth a little higher cost.

I've actually ran a sniffer on a VPN service before and I could monitor other user's traffic (although that is of limited use as I couldn't MITM them nor decrypt HTTPS traffic).

Regardless I'd be looking for an OpenVPN provider if you can find one. By far the more flexible type of VPN since it can be accessed over a lot of free wifi which offers only HTTP/HTTPS traffic.

Ironsocket. They provide VPN (support OpenVPN, L2TP and PPTP), http/socks5 proxies all over the place and a DNS proxy - in the one package. Can't fault them.

Another vote for PIA. Have been with them for almost a year and can't complain.