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Is this different from a regular VPN? I’m not getting it from the web site how “Team VPN” is different from a regular one.

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The biggest difference is that you really do get your own private server running the OpenVPN and WireGuard daemons. Your team members get accounts on your server but no else does. Your server has a dedicated IP address for whitelisting, auto-scales with usage, and has no artificial limits on number of users you can add (though we do have recommendations for performance).

We're also adding site-to-site links with AWS/GCP VPC very soon and have transparent pricing.

The consumer VPN providers are pretty good for what they're designed for but are generally lacking the features businesses need. And the business VPNs are generally much worse to buy and use. We're working to build a consumer-quality business VPN.

Thanks for the question!

Ok, so you’re comparing the service to standard consumer “anonymizing” VPNs, which no real business would be using. You’re probably better off (and need to address in your value proposition) comparing to VPNs provided by standard firewalls that would normally be used in a business, like Cisco AnyConnect, etc. That’s what your real competition is.

Corporate VPNs are mostly used by old businesses thar have a lot of legacy infrastructure on the "internal network". That market may be hard to crack and it's an obsolete model, thus a shrinking market.

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