Yes I know I’m defeating the purpose of a VPN by using a static IP that’s solely attached to me, that’s not why I’m using my own.
The issue I’m having is that a good number of sites see these IPs and block or captcha them. My current one is not on any lists and I still have it caught for some sites like Etsy or Lowe’s even.
I’ve been reading that an AWS lightsale instance might work, is this the only option or is it going to have blocks by cloudflare as well.
I use lightsail exactly for that purpose. I’ve had my firewall using wireguard connected to lightsail for over 2 years now. Will rarely run into a block or glitched captcha loop but it does happen. I also pay for express VPN as a backup and have that on my phone, and surprisingly that is virtually never blocked. Performance with wireguard / lightsail is more consistent for all day use though
Good to hear it works. I think this will be the route I go, I’m under the 2 TB xfer a month so it should work for the $5 tier.