UK Infrastructure upgrade to 10 Gbit/s full duplex

[Staff 10485]

Hello!

We are very pleased to inform you that we are taking the necessary steps to completely renovate our infrastructure in the United Kingdom.

The current servers will be dismissed and replaced by six 10 Gbit/s servers with newer and much more powerful hardware. Each 10 Gbit/s server will be connected to a full duplex 10 Gbit/s dedicated line and port. Each new server replaces 2.5 current 1 Gbit/s servers in order to increase remarkably the available bandwidth per connected client.

At the end of the upgrade, UK will offer a theoretical peak of 60 Gbit/s (full duplex) instead of the current 15 Gbit/s, through adequately powerful servers.

According to our plan, three servers will be located in London and three in Manchester. The new servers will start operations around 19-22 February 2026. Current 1 Gbit/s servers will cease operations on the night between 28 February and 01 March (UTC). Any plan changes and/or delays will be communicated promptly.

UPDATE 2026-02-24: the servers are almost ready and will be available not later than 2026-02-25 (UTC). Because of the unforeseen delay, we are considering to extend the current 1 Gbit/s UK servers operations up to the end of March 2026.

UPDATE 2026-02-25: all the new servers are operational and the old servers will be decommissioned on 2026-02-28 (UTC).

Kind regards & datalove
AirVPN Staff

 

[ASiC666 2]

Nice one 

I was getting better speeds from servers abroad than the UK ones (I'm in the UK)
This upgrade will hopefully sort it out!

Thanks!

[Philiberti 11]

Great news regarding the new high capacity servers in the UK.
The increased capacity is fantastic but why the reduction of choice from 15 servers currently to 6? I tend to choose servers randomly to avoid making a predictable pattern for my ISP to follow (I could be competely wrong about that so please let me know if that is the case).

Regards

[oassQ9w4cbl4AySZhhth%p36x 5]

are there any plans on possibly registering the ip's to identify as outside the uk? because of the online safety act, any ip identified as being in the uk will have issues (such as imgur not working) 

[misamarumaru 0]

Great news thank you!

[misamarumaru 0]

Is this rollout delayed? I noticed the stated timeframe has passed and no new servers appear available. Just curious is all. 

[Staff 10485]

22 minutes ago, misamarumaru said:

Is this rollout delayed? I noticed the stated timeframe has passed and no new servers appear available. Just curious is all. 

Hello!

The servers are operational but they are still being configured and tested. Please stay tuned for an update on Feb the 24th, on this thread.

Kind regards
 

[misamarumaru 0]

Thanks for letting me know! Good luck with the testing.

[nekaklis7 0]

Hello. The UK servers are very fast and stable. You have to do something with the Swedish servers, most of them are slow speed. 

[FumbleFingers 0]

Doubtless it's my fault for not understanding exactly what i was doing, and getting chatgpt to help me set up my raspberry pi connections to Airvpn.
But the net result is the pi's have been running transmission for several days WITHOUT being behind an Airvpn server, until i just noticed the problem today.

It would have been nice to get an email from Airvpn warning about decomissioning the UK servers. Presumably Airvpn could easily see which users were using those servers, and they obviously know my email address

Edited ... by FumbleFingers

[Staff 10485]

2 hours ago, FumbleFingers said:

Doubtless it's my fault

Hello!

No doubts. We write it not with polemic intent but to help you avoid similar errors in the future.
 

2 hours ago, FumbleFingers said:

It would have been nice to get an email from Airvpn warning about decomissioning the UK servers

Notifications for "News" posts are sent automatically but you have to enable them if you have disabled them. Alternatively just follow this forum at least a couple of times per month. Traffic is so low that you will need just a minute. Subscription to single forum is also available.
 

2 hours ago, FumbleFingers said:

The net result is the pi's have been running transmission for several days WITHOUT being behind an Airvpn server

Use Network Lock included in our software (the AirVPN Suite offers wide support for various Raspberry Pi Operating Systems) or follow the best practices written in the documentation to prevent traffic leaks outside the VPN tunnel. If you had any leaks prevention enabled you wouldn't have had this situation. This situation could have occurred even if you had a connection configured to a single server and that server went down for any reason, therefore it's not a decommissioning specific problem.
 

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not understanding exactly what i was doing

It's also important that you read the documentation, first and foremost, and that you never proceed when you don't know exactly what you're doing. In the welcome e-mail, links to guides, FAQ, references are included. If you are in doubt anytime do not hesitate to contact the support team via a ticket ("Contact us" from the web site while your account is logged in) or by writing to support@airvpn.org

Kind regards