can you use a web host as a vpn?

https://piefed.social/post/1347245

Absolutely. I’ve run my traffic through my servers in the past with Wireguard in the past.

https://www.bluehost.com/blog/vps-for-vpn/

do you know if vps are usually considered bots under the eye of websites such as yt?
Many of the common ones are considered automatically suspicious by a lot of sites. Especially cheaper ones.