What are the advantages of self hosting your VPN? Is it to just hide your sessions from your ISP? Also, does it not link the domain (and identity, which I’m assuming you have provided during registration) to your online activity? I thought the whole point of these commercial VPN sellers was that you could “blend in” the traffic, and add enough noise to make any sort of aggregations meaningless.

If you, however, did register and pay for it anonymously, what service is it? The last time I searched for anonymous VPSs, all of them were outside my budget.