User load balancing

[ASiC666 0]

Hi All,

Question and a maybe a suggestion:
Is any load balancing between the users taking place?
What I mean is if, for example, I open hundreds of connections to usenet, will I ruin the day for the rest of the airvpn users on that server?

If yes, maybe some sort of load balancing needs to take place then?
I am not talking about slicing statically a server across on the users logged.
Rather dynamically balance the available bandwidth across.

Ta

[Tech Jedi Alex 1513]

6 hours ago, ASiC666 said:

What I mean is if, for example, I open hundreds of connections to usenet, will I ruin the day for the rest of the airvpn users on that server?

No, take it away.

[Staff 10381]

8 hours ago, ASiC666 said:

Is any load balancing between the users taking place?
What I mean is if, for example, I open hundreds of connections to usenet, will I ruin the day for the rest of the airvpn users on that server?

Hello!

Yes. The kernel already does a wonderful job to distribute fairly bandwidth, aided by the excellent ability to scale of WireGuard. OpenVPN is a little more problematic but we force a round robin distribution of peers on different instances to balance core load. Where a limit must be enforced artificially is in the amount of concurrent connections INSIDE the tunnel. Normally we allow the maximum amount supported by a powerful home router, i.e. 20000 concurrent connections per node. This limit is usually not even noticed by the users as it is well beyond the usage of virtually all of our user base.

Kind regards
 

[Tech Jedi Alex 1513]

On 12/1/2025 at 12:36 AM, Staff said:

Hello!

Yes. The kernel already does a wonderful job to distribute fairly bandwidth, aided by the excellent ability to scale of WireGuard. OpenVPN is a little more problematic but we force a round robin distribution of peers on different instances to balance core load. Where a limit must be enforced artificially is in the amount of concurrent connections INSIDE the tunnel. Normally we allow the maximum amount supported by a powerful home router, i.e. 20000 concurrent connections per node. This limit is usually not even noticed by the users as it is well beyond the usage of virtually all of our user base.

Kind regards
 

By the way, small question: Do you bother changing kernel network settings like congestion control on the servers?