On-demand VPN

For about a month now I’ve been travelling abroad and been surviving on dodgy public Wi-Fis and networks operated by my Airbnb hosts. Under such circumstances I prefer tunneling all my traffic through VPN to avoid eavesdropping. For a long time I’ve had an always-on beefy VPS with OpenVPN running so this wasn’t an issue. However, a while back I’ve decided to save some money by scaling it down to a very small instance and running bigger workloads (VPN included) on ephemeral instances.