In currently widely used VPN. On the Internet you can find manuals for setting up your own VPN server on Linux.
Usually users want to have own VPN server because afraid that cheap VPN services logs are maintained. And can configure own server as want and just be sure that logs are disabled.
Follow the manuals to configure the VPN on own server is not difficult. But is it safe? And is it worth saving on an anonymous paid VPN service?
The first about what think a user after successful configuration of the VPN server is «whether I am safe?»
Typically, VPN channel is correctly encrypted traffic, IP address changes. And it is even possible that the user did everything correctly and logs on the server are not kept.
But there are still a few questions his own anonymity:
Winston Churchill wrote: «Necessary to pay for the safety and for its lack of pay»
More about how one user paid off in article Should you use a cheap VPN?