Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!
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It’s a good day to be a Mullvad user. Switched over from Surfshark a while ago, and I love it.
Is it noticeably faster than Surfshark for you?
I haven’t noticed a difference but this company is significantly more trust worthy IMO
Funny thing is I started using Surfshark just before they started all the YouTube sponsorships. Them doing so many sponsorships actually made me trust them less somehow, if that makes sense.
Mullvad “appears” to be more trustworthy but maybe they are just better at marketing that image. They still cost twice as much as Surfshark.
Usually when a company throws buckoos of money into advertisements, that’s where the money that could’ve been spent on a better product went. I’ve found products that were advertised so heavily, almost always have dog shit quality.
Wow, that is very impressive. I’ve been a subscriber for a few years and I couldn’t be happier with their service.
Except with the removal of port forwarding
Mullvad is good, definitely my go-to VPN these days.
Why is their logo a Mole when Mullvad is The Goat
Full article:
We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure
20 September 2023 NEWS SYSTEM TRANSPARENCY
Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!
In early 2022 we announced the beginning of our migration to using diskless infrastructure with our bootloader known as “stboot”. Completing the transition to diskless infrastructure
Our VPN infrastructure has since been audited with this configuration twice (2023, 2022), and all future audits of our VPN servers will focus solely on RAM-only deployments.
All of our VPN servers continue to use our custom and extensively slimmed down Linux kernel, where we follow the mainline branch of kernel development. This has allowed us to pull in the latest version so that we can stay up to date with new features and performance improvements, as well as tune and completely remove unnecessary bloat in the kernel.
The result is that the operating system that we boot, prior to being deployed weighs in at just over 200MB. When servers are rebooted or provisioned for the first time, we can be safe in the knowledge that we get a freshly built kernel, no traces of any log files, and a fully patched OS.
Of only they’d kept port forwarding.
Agreed. Seems like they were in a super tough spot with that and kind of had to drop it. All the sudden they seem to be doing some new cool stuff to try to keep their edge which I really appreciate / respect. That being said, I’ve dumped them and switched to a service that still port forwards as it gives me better torrenting throughput. Sorry Mullvad.
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.
Big issue there is hosting providers cancelling them. Can’t operate a business without that.
