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I'm not the expert here, but jumping in anyway... It's not frequent. I've watched the US servers for a year and a half or so, and I think I've seen one retirement. It caused some squawking from users who were using it as their all-the-time server. I believe I also remember Air bailing out of France awhile back over adverse changes to the legal/privacy privacy. My impression is that retirement is more likely to be over serious datacenter issues or the legal environment deteriorating re privacy and not just because usage is down. Enough users choose the load-balancing domains like us3.vpn.airdns.org to keep all servers reasonably busy. And server removal is announced weeks ahead of time here on the website. If you want to experience frequent arbitrary server removal with no notice though, there's always NordVPN. I've seen a list of two dozen working servers become a list of no working servers in under two years, all done silently.

Disable NAT-PMP and UPnP. I think it opened the port on your ISP router. Also disable uTP, it has a tendency to break throughput.

I would rather to keep AirVPN as a underdog because they been consistent with their excellent services. The issues is that when people start to "advertise", the VPN provider will become too popular and will led to subpar quality of services or the resources stretched too thin. This been a case for many VPN providers (NordVPN, ExpressVPN, PIA, etc), truly you can see the effect on NordVPN after their YouTube ad-explosion few years ago. If people naturally come to VPN provider, then it will be easier for the providers to expands their services (or not if VPN providers get greedy). I would rather people to come to AirVPN naturally (like word-of-mouth) than dealing with huge volume of new users daily. This is the reason why I don't advertise AirVPN.