We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure - Blog | Mullvad VPN
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Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!

Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!

  • LerajeOPEnglish
    83•1 year ago

    Didn’t really have a choice:

    …Regrettably individuals have frequently used this feature to host undesirable content and malicious services from ports that are forwarded from our VPN servers. This has led to law enforcement contacting us, our IPs getting blacklisted, and hosting providers cancelling us.

    Blog post

    Big issue there is hosting providers cancelling them. Can’t operate a business without that.

    • Carlos SolísEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Short of getting their own servers of course. This update seems to be a step forward in that direction

      • @Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip
        10•1 year ago

        Even if you own your own servers you still need somewhere to host them; ISPs / colocation providers are going to have the same issues with abuse.

      • @lud@lemm.ee
        3•1 year ago

        They already own a lot of their own servers, or at least in the nordics.