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Commercial bandwidth is pretty cheap. You can get servers for a few hundred bucks a month that have one gbps unmetered bandwidth. Then just oversubscribe as muc
by pseudo0 5y ago
Commercial bandwidth is pretty cheap. You can get servers for a few hundred bucks a month that have one gbps unmetered bandwidth. Then just oversubscribe as much as possible, and the end result is a few bucks a month per user. The discounts are arguably a bit of deceptive marketing, as I've seen some of those services run the same 90% discount campaigns for years. At that point it's the base price, not a discount. The number of options is easily explained by the low barriers to entry, as virtually all of these services just stick a GUI on top of OpenVPN.
- franga2000 5y agoYou have a point about oversubscribing, but you can't really run a VPN service on just any cheap server hosting you can find. That will basically ensure you're on every blocklist under the sun and that defeats the main use most people have for VPNs.
- 411111111111111 5y agoYour can get bare metal servers with unmetered bandwidth from Hetzner for way less then $100 per month. These ips aren't in the ranges that are usually blocked by cloudflare etc.
- SahAssar 5y agoThose get you two countries, finland and germany. Most VPN countries advertise dozens or up to a hundred countries. Add in OVH who also have unmetered and you also get canada, france, UK and poland. A good start, but I don't think that is what these VPN providers are doing. Those ranges are also often blocked by sites like netflix, which wouldn't play well with the VPN customers.