There's no way of proving a VPN provider is <i>not</i> logging[0]<p>Also worth reading this guide which is much more comprehensive than that TorrentFreak article:<p><a href="https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/" rel="nofollow">https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/</a><p>[0] <a href="https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29</a><p>[#] <a href="http://blog.hidemyass.com/2011/09/23/lulzsec-fiasco/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.hidemyass.com/2011/09/23/lulzsec-fiasco/</a>
Thankfully HN is not a VPN discussion site, so I have the freedom to say this:<p>The VPN market is completely artificial. You can completely sidestep all the inflation by getting your own VPS or server. I've found this is tons cheaper, and you have complete control over the hosting provider. I can recommend Feral or UrDN myself; I've heard very good things about both, they are worth your time checking out. I also have good but limited personal experience with Contabo; they generally have admirably high CPU and network load tolerance, but they <i>are</i> in Germany. For 100.00% assurance find somewhere in Switzerland.<p>Configuring OpenVPN (or SoftEther if that floats your boat) yourself also lets you remove the server-sent default route stuff, which makes the process of configuring your own local routing setup a little more elegant. (It also teaches you a lot!)<p>There's also the massive benefit that because the VPN machine itself is (presumably) just a Linux box, you can run Tor, Freenet, Tox, etc etc on the machine, and benefit from that connectivity everywhere - while completely moving those traffic profiles away from yourself. Win!<p>Also: it's <i>VERY</i> easy to only run specific applications over the VPN link. I did this for a friend running FreeBSD a few months ago using two FIBs.