SSH (Secure Shell) is a cryptographic network protocol for secure data communication,the protocol specification distinguishes between two major versions that are referred to as SSH-1 and SSH-2,support tunneling, forwarding TCP ports and X11 connections.SSH combine with SOCKS5 Proxy can keeps you anonymous surf the internet and bypass internet censorship just like VPN.
Now There are some VPN service providers offer SSH tunnel service,SSH(Secure Shell) as encrypted tunnel integrating with Proxy servers is a Socks Proxy service, it is much faster than VPN for SSH not encrypts the entire traffic.
The SSH Tunnel service is only let specific application software(eg.Browser, Torrent) traffic go through proxy server,that different with the VPN service that all your traffic go through the VPN servers.The most benefit of SSH service is you can use both VPN/Proxy network and the local network at same time.So,you may setup SSH Tunnel on your chrome or firefox to use VPN network, and use local network on Microsoft IE.
Now,Only few VPN service providers offer private SSH tunnel service in the market,BestVPNServer help you find the Best SSH Tunnel to unblock website,Here is the list of Top SSH VPN Services.