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Purple Post

A collection of 18 issues

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

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