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nordsieck
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VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies
> A VPN on the other hand consists of an application and usually unmetered usage of the company's bandwidth, which costs money.
Precisely. I imagine one of the more popular uses of VPNs is Bittorrent.
luckylion
on July 6, 2019
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Though if you're in the right DCs, that traffic will be mostly internal, I suppose, since VPN providers and seedboxes aren't that spread out (for price and TOS reasons).
tg180
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Can you name some of these DCs?
luckylion
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LeaseWeb and OVH (both .eu and .ca) are the major players from what I know.
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Precisely. I imagine one of the more popular uses of VPNs is Bittorrent.