I always thought VPN companies like Mullvad, iVPN, ProtonVPN, etc rent out servers in the Point-of-Presence itself and rent servers that happen to be based in t

I always thought VPN companies like Mullvad, iVPN, ProtonVPN, etc rent out servers in the Point-of-Presence itself and rent servers that happen to be based in that area, rather than centralize everything on two providers. I guess this is the price we pay for having such VPN services relatively cheap ($5.00/mo). If they rented servers of specific server providers in an area, that gets expensive, fast.