On: Protect yourself from FireSheep with Amazon EC2 + OpenVPN for $0.50 a month

[epo]

Just curious, if you already have decent hosting couldn't you just implement this by installing openvpn on your existing virtual machine (or whatever)? Is there anything which specifically requires EC2?

[delano → epo]

There's nothing specific to EC2. You could do the same thing with any hosted machine you have root access to.

[chopsueyar → epo]

I guess you just have to be careful of bandwidth overage. Don't use it with Netflix too much.

[rmc → chopsueyar]

The same caveat about bandwidth usage applies to EC2. You have to pay (twice in & out) for EC2 traffic.