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New Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

At AzireVPN, we are dedicated to continually improving your online privacy and security. We are thrilled to announce our latest addition to our global network – a brand new server location in the historic city of Kyiv, Ukraine. In this blog post, we'll introduce you to Kyiv, share the benefits of

Port forwarding

At AzireVPN, we are dedicated to providing our users with advanced features that enhance their online experience. We are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest addition: Port forwarding. In this blog post, we will delve into what Port forwarding is and how it can be leveraged to open

Blind Operator 2.0

We have implemented a new security measure that we call Blind Operator 2.0, a method to disable remote and local access to our servers. This makes it hard for anyone, including our employees, to modify, or to tap the traffic on our servers. In this blog post, we will

New Location: Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a bustling metropolis located on the southeastern coast of China, and is known for its vibrant culture, world-class infrastructure, and favorable business climate. It is also an excellent location for VPN services, which is why AzireVPN is pleased to offer our users a VPN server in Hong

New Location Available: Singapore

We have opened a new location in Singapore, where two servers have been deployed. It is our 24rd location worldwide which increases the total number of available VPN servers to 76, from 74. We are renting space in a closed rack in the Epsilon facility and use the network upstream

AzireVPN iOS Application is live!

After months of waiting, the AzireVPN iOS app is finally published on the official appstore. Users no longer have to be added to TestFlight to use the application. All features and functionality is live and ready for use. If you were previously using TestFlight - we recommend moving to the

New AzireVPN macOS Client with WireGuard Released

The long-awaited and much overdue new AzireVPN macOS client using WireGuard is now officially available! MacOS users can download the new application via the Apple Appstore and log in with their existing AzireVPN credentials. DOWNLOAD AzireVPN macOS New Features The new AzireVPN macOS client contains the following updates: * Uses WireGuard

New Location Available: Helsinki, Finland

We have opened a new location in Helsinki, Finland, where two servers have been deployed. It is our 23rd location worldwide which increases the total number of available VPN servers to 71, from 69. We are renting space in a closed rack in the Equinix HE6 facility and use the

Black Friday Sale is LIVE!

Our annual Black Friday Sale is now officially LIVE! We have put an automatic (no code required) 70% discount across: ALL packages! Any and all customers can take advantage of this deal until the end of the month. This Black Friday Sale 70% Discount will be the same for Cyber

Black Friday Sneak Peak!

Black Friday is quickly approaching and discounts around the Internet are already flowing! We wanted to give you a little sneak peak into what is coming for our own Black Friday sale with a special discount on 1-month packages. There will be additional discounts on longer-term packages closer to Black

AzireVPN Referral Program Overhaul!

It is about time someone took an axe to the AzireVPN referral program and rebuilt it from the ground up. We have already made some immediate changes that will benefit users actively referring friends, family, and strangers. We also have a number of changes in the pipeline coming your way

What is a VPN?

A VPN is a Virtual Private Network. That cleared things up, right? No? Well, think about it like this...when you connect to your printer via Wi-Fi from your computer at home - that is a private network between your computer and the printer. Or when you are at the

10 Years of AzireVPN

Wow. 10 years. Not a lot of businesses get to say that these days. We cannot express how grateful we are for your continued support over the past decade. The opportunity to provide unwavering private VPN services to customers has been an honor. Thank you! Where it all began... AzireVPN

AzireVPN Cup - Weekly CS:GO Tournament in Europe

AzireVPN is launching a series of grassroots esports and gaming initiatives in an effort to create further awareness of personal privacy and security online. Given the close relationship of gaming, esports, and streaming to modern privacy concerns there is a greater need for education and awareness. More than ever, we

New Pricing Announcement

After 10 years we have officially changed our pricing in an effort to offset the rising operational costs and infrastructure development. NEW PRICE: 10 € / month No existing customers will be affected by the change in pricing. Ever. If you were with us during the past 10 years of service, then

Beginners Guide to Privacy Online

Using the internet can be a dangerous game if you aren’t careful. The number of unscrupulous characters looking for unsuspecting victims online is only growing. It has become such a problem that it is now accepted as ‘normal’. We thought we would lend a hand and provide a few

Why we Own our Own Servers

There are two types of VPN companies that exist today: those who buy, and those who rent servers. The sad truth about most VPN providers is that they rent all or a very large percentage of their server infrastructure, leaving their network vulnerable to physical attacks. This is of course

New Location Available: Seattle, USA

We have opened a new location in Seattle, Washington (USA), where two servers have been deployed. It is our 22nd location worldwide which increases the total number of available VPN servers to 69, from 67. We are renting space in a closed rack in the Westin Building Seattle facility and

New Location Available: Dallas, USA

We have opened a new location in Dallas, Texas (USA), where two servers have been deployed. It is our 21st location worldwide which increases the total number of available VPN servers to 67, from 65. We are renting space in a closed rack in the Carrier-1 Dallas facility and use

Windows OS Client now with WireGuard

Today we are delighted to announce the latest improvement to our VPN infrastructure and service. The result of which is a brand-new Windows OS client secure with WireGuard.

New Location Available: Los Angeles, USA

We have opened a new location in Los Angeles, California (USA), where two servers have been deployed. It is our 20th location worldwide which increases the total number of available VPN servers to 65, from 63. We are renting space in a closed rack in the Digital Realty LAX facility

New Location Available: New York, USA

We have opened a new location in New York, United States, where two servers have been deployed. It is our 18th location worldwide which increases the total number of available VPN servers to 63, from 61. We are renting space in a closed rack in the Equinix NY2 [https://peeringmap.

New Location Available: Madrid, Spain

We have opened a new location in Madrid, Spain, where two servers have been deployed. It is our 17th location worldwide which increases the total of available VPN servers to 61, from 59. We are renting space in a closed rack in the Interxion MAD1 [https://peeringmap.com/facility/130]

New Location Available: Milan, Italy

We have opened a new location in Milan, Italy, where two servers have been deployed. It is our 16th location worldwide which increases the total of available VPN servers to 59, from 57. We are renting space in a closed rack in the IRIDEOS [https://peeringmap.com/facility/1974] facility

AzireVPN - 8 Year Service Anniversary!

AzireVPN was launched on the 23rd of September, 2012. Therefore it means that our service is now 8 years old! We are taking this opportunity to write a retrospective of this past year. We will also express what we have in mind for the following year. What we have done

New Location Available: Zurich, Switzerland

We have opened a new location in Zürich, Switzerland, where two servers have been deployed. It is our 15th location worldwide which increases the total of available VPN servers to 57, from 55. We are renting space in a closed rack in the Interxion ZUR1 [https://peeringmap.com/facility/81]

New Location Available: Paris, France

We have opened a new location in Paris, France, where two servers have been deployed. It is our 14th location worldwide which increases the total of available VPN servers to 55, from 53. We are renting space in a closed rack in the Interxion PAR2 [https://peeringmap.com/facility/75]

New Location Available: Bucharest, Romania

We have opened a new location in Bucharest, Romania, where two servers have been deployed. It is our 13th location worldwide which increases the total of available VPN servers to 53, from 51. We are renting space in a closed rack in the Europe Bucharest [https://peeringmap.com/facility/2188]

New Location Available: Frankfurt, Germany

We have opened a new location in Frankfurt, Germany, where two servers have been deployed. It is our 12nd location worldwide which increases the total of available VPN servers to 38, from 36. We are renting space in a closed rack in the Interxion FRA4 [https://peeringmap.com/facility/58]

New Location Available: Chicago, USA

We have opened a new location in Chicago, United States, where two servers have been deployed. It is our 11st location worldwide, and 3rd location in North America, which increases the total of available VPN servers to 36, from 34. We are renting space in a closed rack in the

New Location Available: Copenhagen, Denmark

We have opened a new location in Copenhagen, Denmark, where we deployed two servers. It is our 10th location worldwide, and 7th location in Europe, which increases the total of available VPN servers to 34, from 32. We are currently renting space in a closed rack in the Interxion CPH2

AzireVPN Now Available on iOS

We are releasing our new WireGuard® custom iOS application in open beta access, based on a fork of the official client. You may install the application by visiting TestFlight [https://testflight.apple.com/join/tPxxeJE9]. Our WireGuard based application has been modified to simplify the life of our users. It

New Locations Available: Gothenburg and Phuket

New location in Gothenburg, Sweden We have deployed a second location in Sweden, which is the home country of our service. This location may interest users from western Sweden or even western Europe as it may provide better latencies, saving a network round trip to Stockholm. We are currently renting

New Location Available: Amsterdam

We are happy to announce the opening of a new location in Amsterdam, Netherlands. We are aware of the fact that this long waited location is often the most popular one among VPN European users. Therefore, it was important for us to find the right partner to handle an expecting

AzireVPN Now Available on Android

We are releasing our new WireGuard® custom Android application in open beta access, based on a fork of the official client. You may install the application by visiting Google Play [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.azirevpn.android] or search for: AzireVPN. Our WireGuard based application has

WireGuard Implementation Update

We at AzireVPN love technology and we always crave to find the best hardware and software for fulfilling our mission: protecting people' privacy, while ensuring the best possible performance for exigent customers. We therefore decided to propose this new tunnel in a free beta test and we were one of

Purple Post 18 - May

New location in Oslo, Norway We are happy to announce the opening of a new location in Oslo, Norway. Norway is a great choice of location as this country is not a member of the European Union. Therefore, it is a very interesting place for our European users who are

Purple Post 17 - March

Donation to WireGuard On February, we donated to the WireGuard project in order to help and accelerate the development of wg-dynamic, a tool which will allow us to assign public IP addresses when a peer connects to one of our WireGuard endpoints, like it is currently possible on OpenVPN. As

Purple Post 16 - February

WireGuard new opportunity The WireGuard wg-dynamic sub-project is beginning to take shape. This extension opens up the possibility of pushing public IP addresses when a peer connects to a WireGuard endpoint, like it is currently possible on OpenVPN. This could lead to new considerations for the current brainstorming about changes

Purple Post 15 - January

Upcoming changes to plans We will introduce later this year a change in the currently proposed plans, which will be split into two kinds of plans. Regular and premium plans Some of our users do not need or do not want to use public IP addresses, because they do not

Purple Post 14 - December

IPv6 hostnames Until now, our WireGuard endpoints were only reachable through IPv4. Because of stability issues, we were not able to propose hostnames reachable through both IPv4 and IPv6. A fair part of our users now has an IPv6 native connectivity so it was a logical step to take. As

Purple Post 14 - November

WireGuard is now considered on-par with our OpenVPN service This is the most important step into our WireGuard adoption as a new VPN protocol supported by our service. As we stated in the October monthly update, all public keys that have been used during our beta test and have not

Purple Post 13 - October

With over 35,000 accumulated peers over all our endpoints, we can conclude that our WireGuard public beta test has been a great success. As an early adopter of this new VPN protocol, we are very happy about the results we got as we mainly wanted to observe its scalability

Purple Post 12 - September

WireGuard beta testing phase We can now say that the end of our WireGuard beta testing phase is in sight and we are happy with our upcoming changes to how we will handle WireGuard keys and accounts, to prepare for the release of our WireGuard tunnel. These changes will be

Purple Post 11 - August

Spain, Málaga maintenance Our planned maintenance in Málaga went as expected with minimal downtime. Our old Cisco switch went to sleep and a brand new Juniper switch is currently running in our Spain location. We also brought with us another dedicated server which is currently offline but it will be

Purple Post 10 - July

There is not much news on this past month, we are working on our Organization package but have nothing to show right now. It is quite a lot of work that has to be done but we are slowly progressing. Spain, Málaga upgrade We are going to Malaga next weekend

Purple Post 9 - June

Try WireGuard on macOS WireGuard is now working on macOS and you can install it with brew, a guide has been published and you can find it here [https://www.azirevpn.com/support/guides/computer/macos/wireguard-cli]. Keep in mind that it is still in BETA and should only be

Purple Post 9 - May

Try WireGuard on Android WireGuard is now working on stock Android phones and you can download the app from Google Play [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wireguard.android]. Keep in mind that it is still in BETA and should only be used for testing! Try it

Purple Post 8 - April

New website layout We are currently working on a new layout for our website which will be much easier to navigate and have a better information structure so that you easily can find everything you want to know about. The guide section will see a huge improvement. WebRTC and DNS

Purple Post 7 - March

Token authentication We have implemented token based authentication which you can use to connect to our service in azclient / OpenVPN / WireGuard. Navigate to https://www.azirevpn.com/manager/account/token and generate a token for your account. > API request with token authenticationcurl --data-urlencode token=REPLACE --data-urlencode pubkey=REPLACE https://api.

Purple Post 6 - February

We went to London last week (26th Jan) to re-locate our servers to our new ISP, everything went as planned and our new ISP is pushing our traffic now. The reason for the change is simply that we want to use the same ISP as we use in Sweden. We'd

Purple Post 5 - January

Back-end updated Our back-end changes has been running smoothly almost whole December. These changes was well needed and will make it faster for us to develop new functions in the future. Changing internet provider in UK In late January we are planning to change Internet provider in London, UK. The

Purple Post 4 - December

WireGuard is still currently free to use Our WireGuard servers are not getting enough pressure but hopefully more people will get their eyes on WireGuard and try it out. It will be free until our WireGuard BETA ends, or when we hit too much traffic so that we cannot afford

WireGuard Privacy Enhancements

At AzireVPN, we care about our no-logging policy, that's why all of our servers are running on diskless hardware and all log files are piped to /dev/null. But when it comes to WireGuard the default behaviour is to have endpoint and allowed-ip visible in the server interface, which does

WireGuard with AzireVPN is now free

WireGuard will be free for anyone with a registered account until further notice. We are doing this to promote WireGuard and see how it scales with many users. Even though it's free we guarantee that all WireGuard servers will keep the same privacy and no-logging policy as our other protocols

Purple Post 3 - November

Remove your email functionality We have added "Remove your e-mail"-functionality for users that registered with an e-mail before we made e-mail optional. We are also looking into what kind of information that is required to use our service, should we generate a random username or let our users choose

Incident report

Our service experienced temporarily failures around 5:40 to 7:30 UTC which caused our web server (including our API), authentication service and all SE servers to go down. The cause of the problem were related to a power outage in our data center in Stockholm, Sweden. We do not

Purple Post 2 - October

We went live with a beta of the WireGuard protocol last month and has received great response from you guys. We are really excited about this protocol and will continue to work on implementing it in our ECO system. We will fire up WG servers on all of our locations

Server NAT vs Public IP

Why NAT, is it considered more secure? The simplified answer is that it could be depending on circumstances. We maintain by default a non-blocking policy which means that all incoming ports are allowed to pass through when using a Public IP; therefore it is up to the user to block

WireGuard BETA

We are pleased to announce a public BETA of our WireGuard servers! Starting with servers in Stockholm, Sweden we invite all customers to try out the new WireGuard protocol with our non-logging VPN servers. Your can read more about our WireGuard implementation here [https://www.azirevpn.com/wireguard]. Do not

Purple Post 1 - September

Okey, it is time to make use of our blog and get our words out to you! So much have happened and we have not really kept you up to date with all the stuff going on from the inside. This will change now with our "Monthly update" concept! You

azclient Launch

The wait is over, we can now offer you azclient, our own easy to use VPN client software to connect you to our servers without any hassle. Although some of our clients enjoy configuring their systems manually, there have been many asking us for a custom VPN client designed specifically