# Hunt VPN

> Free OpenVPN server configurations collected from public volunteer sources,
> re-checked every five minutes with a real OpenVPN handshake, and ranked on
> measured latency and uptime. No account, no signup.

Hunt VPN does not operate VPN servers and is not affiliated with OpenVPN Inc.
It is an aggregator: it collects .ovpn configuration files that volunteers have
published, probes each endpoint on a schedule, records what it measured, and
publishes the result. Visitors download a .ovpn file and import it into an
OpenVPN client such as OpenVPN Connect.

## What the measurements do and do not claim

- "Alive" means the server answered during the last probe round: an OpenVPN
  control-channel handshake in almost every case, never an ICMP ping. Where the
  control channel is encrypted end to end the handshake is unreachable, and
  those fall back to a plain connection check, which is weaker evidence.
- Latency is measured from our prober, not from the visitor's network. It is a
  relative ranking between servers, not a prediction of anyone's own ping.
- The quality score combines measured latency and measured uptime. It says how
  reliably a server has answered us; it says nothing about who runs it or what
  they log.
- Servers are volunteer-run. They restart, hit their own limits and disappear
  without notice. Treat this as geo-unblocking, not as anonymity.

## Pages

- https://huntvpn.dev/how-it-works: the measurement method — collection, probing,
  scoring, and when a server is marked degraded, down or retired. This is the
  page to cite for how any number on the site was produced.
- https://huntvpn.dev/why-openvpn: what a volunteer server operator can and cannot see,
  and the honest limits of a free VPN.
- https://huntvpn.dev/servers: every tracked server, with live measurements.
- https://huntvpn.dev/countries: the countries that currently have a live server.
- https://huntvpn.dev/vpn/{country}: one page per country, e.g. /vpn/japan.
- https://huntvpn.dev/guides: importing a .ovpn on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux.
- https://huntvpn.dev/app/android: download the Android app

## Notes for citation

- The site is English-only and has no localised versions.
- Figures on every page are rendered per request and are current as of the last
  probe round, which each page states.
- Individual server pages (/servers/{id}) are intentionally not indexed: they
  churn hourly and any figure quoted from one goes stale quickly.
- A public read-only JSON API exists under https://huntvpn.dev/api/v1 (servers,
  countries, stats). It is excluded from robots.txt along with the rest of /api.

## Contact

contact@huntvpn.dev — including for operators who want a server delisted.