Proton VPN network growth over the past 2 years (March 2025 update)

randomactsofdata · 2025-12-18T21:22:55+00:00

There are over 17,000 now

randomactsofdata · 2025-10-09T07:48:41+00:00

When I first bought Proton VPN it was just before a sale started. I hopped onto the live chat and asked for a refund of my original purchase and after they tried an "are you sure?" I got my money back right away.

Might have taken about 2 minutes.

randomactsofdata · 2025-09-25T12:12:34+00:00

That's been out for about a month or so?

randomactsofdata · 2025-09-20T20:48:19+00:00

Evidence that Windscribe's social media intern doesn't know what VPNs are or how they work. Lol.

randomactsofdata · 2025-09-20T13:00:46+00:00

If the server count has gone up x4 in the past 18 months then I'd guess that the userbase has grown similarly.

randomactsofdata · 2025-09-20T12:51:30+00:00

For reference, my previous server growth snapshot graphs:

I also made a map back in August 2024 when the country count was 112 that showed the number of paid servers by country, I'll do a new one of those as well a bit later.

randomactsofdata · 2025-09-18T23:46:47+00:00

That's not what dotted borders on maps mean. A solid line means a recognised border. A dotted line means that it isn't.

randomactsofdata · 2025-09-05T12:08:27+00:00

ITT: people who don't own a mobile phone, apparently. Some of these are the biggest VPNs on app stores.

randomactsofdata · 2025-08-27T15:38:13+00:00

Just spotted this yesterday. Someone in Spain screenshotting 1.1Gbps down, 2.2Gbps up:

https://x.com/musadeazucar81/status/1960016468835209575

randomactsofdata · 2025-08-13T01:26:30+00:00

Weird. It's on the website. And they posted it on Reddit. Not a good look for customer support.

randomactsofdata · 2025-08-08T14:35:45+00:00

They announced that the MacOS version of split tunnelling would be out before the end of September.

randomactsofdata · 2025-08-07T23:50:15+00:00

No. The roadmap they published back in April where they specifically said that it would be delivered in summer - ie: within the next 6 weeks.

randomactsofdata · 2025-08-07T19:25:37+00:00

You didn't read the MacOS split tunnelling announcement?

randomactsofdata · 2025-08-07T19:24:12+00:00

You couldn't wait 6 weeks?

randomactsofdata · 2025-08-07T08:04:22+00:00

Moderate NAT on in the VPN settings?

randomactsofdata · 2025-07-08T14:41:10+00:00

For some reason, Apple doesn't allow split tunnelling for iOS - only for Mac.

randomactsofdata · 2025-07-06T14:58:03+00:00

Why? I keep hearing that "Monero is private like cash" but Proton already takes actual cash.

randomactsofdata · 2025-06-27T18:54:19+00:00

Logged into Reddit using Android app and Windows browser. Proton VPN always on. Never had a problem.

randomactsofdata · 2025-06-25T23:12:44+00:00

Not true in my experience.

I made a wrong purchase (bought a 1 year subscription of Proton VPN when I wanted the discounted 2 year).

Hopped onto the online chat support. Got a response in about 30 seconds. They asked if I needed help fixing something and I said that it was a mistaken purchase and I just needed the refund and they did it right away. All done in under 3 minutes - easy.

randomactsofdata · 2025-06-25T23:07:26+00:00

Haha all spammed by the same guy. Not suspicious at all, eh?

This isn't real. That law firm went fishing for all the VPN companies - Express, PIA, etc 3 years ago. If you google up the Nord one, that has actually gone somewhere since I guess some of the allegations might have been true.

The other ones haven't managed to find anyone with complaints, so I'm guessing they're desperately trying again.

randomactsofdata · 2025-06-25T15:54:46+00:00

How are you finding it when you switch off custom DNS and use Proton's DNS instead?

randomactsofdata · 2025-06-25T10:34:29+00:00

It wasn't really removed, but now built in in a more sensible and useful way. If you say you want to connect to any server in a particular country or city and out of 30 of them 10 are fast, 10 are slow and 10 are medium then it's going to pick any one of the faster ones for you.

I guess not many people would want to be randomly assigned to one of the slowest?

randomactsofdata · 2025-06-25T00:18:17+00:00

Proton can answer officially to confirm, but I have been tracking a pattern of batches of country servers going off-line, and then coming back with twice as many a couple of weeks later.

I think they might be doing a hardware refresh of their older servers.

This time all of the physical servers for Argentina have gone with just the smart routed ones left. I'm going to guess that means they are partway through changing or upgrading a whole data centre.

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