Today we'll show you what to do with a VPS? Furthermore all of these possibilities would be difficult to run on a shared hosting provider.
Here's the list of items we discuss:
Run a blog for sharing your thoughts.
run a gameserver like minecraft or counter-strike. Complete control offers you the ability to keep it PG-13.
use it as a remote workstation (via RDP for Windows VPS or VNC server on linux)
Use it as a public or private ftp/s server (share files publicly or privately)
run a vpn to secure your traffic (secure your traffic)
Use it as a dev environment for web-services or applications, or even script building and scraping