Couple questions about 10Gbps servers and M247

[cccthats3cs 14]

I am looking to switch to AirVPN due to a just announced change, removing port forwarding at another privacy / pro-internet minded VPN service.

Looking at the AirVPN server list all the servers in my area (NYC) are 1Gbps and today, Haedus has been consistently listed well over 1000 Mbps (currently showing as 1701 / 1000 Mbit/s) and the other 2 have been quite close to the 1Gbps max. I see that there have been 10Gbps servers added recently, is there a plan to either buy more servers in high traffic locations or upgrade them to 10Gbps?

Additionally these same servers in NYC are all M247, are there any plans in the future to add another network for diversity? My experience with M247 is that many sites block it and per my searching, this seems to be M247 wide and not restricted to any particular VPN provider.

Thanks

[Staff 9972]

Hello!

1. The upgrade of all the servers marked as "1 Gbit/s" has been completed to at least 1 Gbit/s full duplex lines. Therefore we might now switch to "2 Gbit/s" in the servers monitor. In the past we did not do so because the hardware limits made it unrealistic beating a total of 1.2-1.3 Gbit/s throughput on a single server. Nowadays with WireGuard, and ever since we revamped the load balancing system on different OpenVPN instances, that limit is no more. That's why you can often see servers with "1000 Mbit/s" maximum availability providing much more than 1000 Mbit/s.
2. In Dallas and in the Netherlands servers are connected to 10 Gbit/s (full duplex) lines, 10 servers per each line. We have also expanded our 10 Gbit/s lines in the Switzerland, Sweden, Bulgaria and the Netherlands (10 Gbit/s full duplex line, port and NIC for single servers).
3. In various countries (Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, USA except New York City and other ones) we don't operate any server in M247 datacenters. Furthermore, all the expansions to 5 and 10 Gbit/s lines (full duplex) has been performed outside the M247 infrastructure. We will continue to do so.
4. In general, in the nearest future M247 presence in our infrastructure should not exceed 30% of the total amount of servers, and should not exceed 15% of the amount of total "available" bandwidth. We have no plans at this very moment for alternative providers in New York City, though. Please consider that the USA housing/hosting market is frequently hostile against VPNs and often against p2p as a protocol in itself, even when it is used to deliver content legally. Since we remained faithful to our mission preserving Net Neutrality (no discrimination against any protocol and application) it's difficult to find a USA provider we can rely on, and M247 is hands down one the most reliable in the world (not only in the USA, of course), so far.

Kind regards

 

[ss11 15]

Now you understand why there are less countries available in AirVPN than others? Because hosting partners are chosen more reliably, that have a mature thinking.
Not terminating one of the most important and useful features (port-forwarding) at the first knock on the door. It's unacceptable to use the argument that SOME are not using the feature correctly, so we cancel it. Why do you keep baseball bat in your basement to play with, some use such baseball bats to mess up parked cars - should you burn it?