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vpn.sh has it covered
Simple answer... yes.
lol
There's a market for anything though. Just depends on if it's worth it.
Time spent verifying illegal usage vs profit... That's my main concern.
There is definitely a market for VPN accounts, but like many hosting-related markets, it's already rather saturated and there's a decent handful of large VPN providers that take up the vast majority of the market.
If you have any specific questions, feel free to drop me a PM, and I'm aware of one or two others who browse here who are in the VPN market who I could probably pass you on to
And thanks @AlexanderM :P
Nah. I'd rather set up my own VPN on a leb so I have control.
Bingo!
yes, but as with any small market in this industry you have to be prepared to work on it for 2 - 3 years to get any decent returns.
There is a certainly a market for VPN. However, it is such a competitive market and in order to make profits you will need a lot of customers. Otherwise your operation costs will be too high to bankrupt you. Not only you have to deal with the billing, security, logging, you may also run into legal issues since a lot of people use VPN to download copyrighted content. Plus, the profit margin is small.
As lot of others has mentioned
It's a very saturated market, and the legal issues are some messy shit to handle.
It doesn't really worth the time unless you're really into it.
You would really have a deep pocket in order to advertise.
And as your signature says, a deep pocket to offer 81 locations
You can also start with bulk reselling and/or white-label VPN solution in order to lower risks.
Supposedly the payment processors such as paypal, visa, mc, are clamping down on this due to pressure from content providers. Reportedly not accepting payments offshore for some of these guys. So the VPN guys probably have a rough road ahead of them.
Yea, there are legitimate uses but let's not kid ourselves. Most of this is to get around country restrictions.
How do you guys differentiate yourselves from free services like vpnbook?
Free VPN services get abused, especially when they have no visible TOS like VPN Book. They're generally quite clogged as well. For example, I just tried a speedtest on their US location and could only hit 3Mb/s from my 30Mb/s connection. Not to mention the fact that support is limited to a contact form, and there's only a small number of locations.
Whilst I think it's good if someone can offer free VPN's that perform well AND are secure, there doesn't seem to be anywhere doing this now. I also generally seem to have more confidence in my security if I'm paying for the privilege, as I'm expecting at least some form of professionalism and I'm also aware of who's dealing with my data.
Personally I've seen enough free VPN services try and fail to be wise enough to not take that route. Anybody feeling confident enough to go for it, fair play on taking the risk but don't expect anything to come of it other than lost sleep and headaches.
Good point
VPNBook speeds tend to be comparable to vpn.sh sometimes actually, like 30% of the time through the Canada node. But compared to VPNBook, vpn.sh has dedication by @liamwither and Chris, who provide a excellent service with far more locations than most providers by a longshot while still having affordable and reasonable prices, and a much better logging policy.
The issues with free VPNs are that they have heavy invasive logging policy due to heavy abuse and a lack of general concern for their users.