Our Team
VPNTesting.com is run by a small, independent team. We are not a venture-backed startup, a media conglomerate, or a subsidiary of a VPN company. We are a small group of people who care about privacy, security and whether VPNs actually do what the marketing says.
We think you should know who is behind any site that asks for your trust – especially one that covers privacy tools. This page explains who we are, what we use to build the site, and why we operate the way we do. For more on our editorial principles, funding model, and independence, see our about page.
Who We Are
We are a small editorial and testing operation. There is no 40-person newsroom. There is no office. The people behind this site work remotely, purchase every VPN subscription with their own money, and answer to readers – not investors or VPN companies.
Here is what each role involves:
| Role | What They Do |
|---|---|
| Editor and Publisher | Over a decade of experience building and operating internet businesses across multiple countries. Has launched, grown, and sold web properties in competitive markets. Background spans editorial strategy, data-driven decision making, and consumer advocacy. Oversees testing priorities, affiliate compliance, and the editorial firewall between commercial relationships and published content. Understands the plumbing without pretending to be a plumber. |
| Testing and Development | Automated leak tests for IP (IPv4/IPv6), DNS, and WebRTC – the three most common silent VPN failures. Methodology is published. When we say a VPN leaks, our code detected it. |
| Fact-Checking and Review Process | Every review follows our documented editorial policy. Claims require evidence. Limitations are stated. Mistakes are corrected openly with a date. Scores go up or down based on what we find – not who pays us. |
As the site grows, so will this list. For now, a small team that tests thoroughly is more useful than a large team that publishes fast and corrects later.
Our Tools and Infrastructure
Here is what runs VPNTesting.com:
| Category | What We Use |
|---|---|
| Content management | WordPress (self-hosted) with the Kadence theme. |
| Hosting | DigitalOcean VPS. We control the server, the configuration, and the deployment pipeline. No shared hosting where another tenant’s problem becomes ours. |
| VPN leak testing | Our own browser-based tools built in-house. IP detection via server-side PHP. DNS leak detection via bash.ws STUN servers. WebRTC leak detection via the browser’s RTCPeerConnection API. IP geolocation via ip-api.com. |
| Analytics | Google Analytics 4. We would prefer a privacy-first alternative. It is on the list. |
| Postmark. No tracking pixels. No open tracking. No link tracking. Every email we send states this explicitly in the footer. When we say we care about privacy, we mean it down to the transactional emails. | |
| CDN and security | Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, and DDoS protection. |
What We Are Not
The VPN review industry has a transparency problem. Several of the largest review sites are owned by VPN companies, which creates conflicts of interest that are rarely disclosed clearly. We think it is worth stating plainly what VPNTesting.com is not:
- Not owned by a VPN company. We have no ownership ties, investments, or contractual obligations to any VPN provider. We are not part of a portfolio that includes VPN brands – a structure that has created documented conflicts of interest at other review sites.
- Not a content farm. We do not publish 50 reviews generated from press releases and spec sheets. Every VPN we review is purchased, installed, and tested. This limits how many reviews we can publish, and we are fine with that. Depth over breadth.
- Not pretending to be bigger than we are. Some review sites imply they have large testing labs, teams of researchers, and global infrastructure. We are a small team with real tools. Our testing methodology is automated and reproducible, which matters more than headcount.
- Not accepting sponsored content. No paid reviews, no premium listings, no advertorials, no “partnerships” where a provider pays to appear more prominently. Our only revenue source is affiliate commissions, disclosed here.
- Not running display ads. No banner ads, no pop-ups, no interstitials. The site is funded entirely through affiliate commissions.
Why We Are Anonymous (For Now)
We build privacy tools. It would be odd if we did not practice what we preach. The people behind this site have lives, careers, and interests beyond VPN testing – and we would like to keep those separate, the same way we would advise any privacy-conscious person to compartmentalize their online presence.
Instead of asking you to trust our faces, we ask you to trust our data. Every claim on this site is backed by something you can verify yourself: a published methodology, a live data dashboard, an editorial policy, and named affiliate relationships. We think that is a stronger foundation for trust than a headshot and a bio.
In the meantime, every claim we make is verifiable:
- Our testing methodology is published and versioned.
- Our editorial policy documents how reviews are conducted, how conflicts are managed, and how corrections are handled.
- Our affiliate relationships are disclosed.
- Our VPN Test Index publishes aggregate test data with sample sizes on every statistic.
Get in Touch
If you want to know something about how we operate that is not covered on this page, ask us. We respond to every genuine inquiry.
- General questions: Contact page
- Report an error: Contact page – select “Report an error” and we will investigate within 1 to 2 business days.
- Request a VPN review: Contact page – we track every request and use them to plan our review schedule.
- Press inquiries: Press page
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