I don’t know if it will work, but it’s possible to tunnel all your traffic through a VPS using SSH and a piece of software called sshuttle.

Journaling is OK but what really keeps me grounded is an habit tracker. Without it my life is pure chaos.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g9A6ctjHAxE

Age of reason: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3743

Interstellar Age or any book from Jordan Peterson

I don’t know about Linode, but with Hostinger you get a resource cap on CPU usage. If you put your VPS to crunch something you will be throttled down on CPU. I once tried importing Wikipedia on my VPS and had my CPU throttled down. I pay for the cheapest VPS with only one CPU. In this case you don’t really get the “full” VPS to yourself…