v_ivanov

Hi! Every business has its risks. Some customers may break the laws. Mostly we faced downloading stolen films, software and other stuff.

Real hackers and carders do not use low-end cheap VPN.

So our customers were mostly people who just want to bypass government blocks.

It is really powerfull solution, but when it was opensourced it didn't look like server-side project

Well, and I live and russia and see what is happening here. It is not marketing or collecting attention. It's just my personal opinion.

Thanks for pleasant words

I just love coding. The second reason that initially I wanted custom solution, that can be flexible. With my own project built from scratch I could introduce new any features much faster.

We had 6 vps in different countries. It was about 20-30 active users, with total number of users - 250.

Probably. But they used the same email. Simply they used service from time to time

I've been looking on docker too, thanks!

sure, i did

And in russia blocks are not effective(everyone bypass them), but they also affect really peaceful websites. And it is only beginning, waiting for Great Russian Firewall.

Well, your vpn had an interesting usecase(making traffic cheaper). In russia everybody just uses some free browser extensions to bypass traffic filtering :(

I used OpenVPN. Didn't have enough time to build custom client wrapper. So our customers used some openvpn client, or viscosity.

We had about 400 registred clients, of course not all were active and paying.

Getting paying customer is quite hard. Some people just register. Others register, pay, but do not start using. Some of them use service for 2 months, then leave. After 2 months they come back.

There different requirements, but most of people want super easy install process. But all of them have different network configurations, so even with simple client you will have to spent time helping people to start using service.

My service was low-end, it was 3$/month.