"3,000 servers in 90 countries" usually means IP space registered nowhere near the flag on the button. Here is our actual fleet - small, and honest about it.
Planned next: United States, Germany, Switzerland. We add a location when we can run it properly, not to make the number look bigger.
A server labelled Finland is a machine in Finland. We never register IP space to one country and host it in another.
Queries resolve on the same machine. Handing DNS to a third party would mean handing them every domain you visit.
Peer addresses are kept indefinitely by default in the tooling this runs on. We rotate keys and drop peer state so that default can't quietly become a log.
Iceland, the Netherlands, Romania and Finland have no blanket data-retention mandate for services like ours.
As of August 2026, Cypher VPN has not:
This statement is re-signed each month. If it stops being updated, treat that silence as the signal it is.
The exact list of what we keep - and the two honest exceptions.
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