April

Riseup VPN

The Riseup VPN has been incredibly popular since we announced it last June. Many more users are now getting the benefits of more privacy, censorship circumvention, and location anonymization. This service has become so popular we now have a problem, the servers are overloaded!

On top of that, the way the internet was designed is giving us trouble. The majority of the internet infrastructure connecting South America to the rest of the world travels through Miami. Incredibly, even connections from South America often travel to Miami and back! Although we established a server in Miami for our VPN service to best support our users in South America, it has become incredibly overloaded and can’t keep up.

Fortunately, these problems are pretty easy to solve – we can get a higher performance server for Miami and pay for more bandwidth. For this to happen, we need your help. Donations made to our VPN account will go directly to solving these issues – https://riseup.net/vpn/donate

Riseup Labs

As Riseup offers many more services than we did 20 years ago, we find the resources it requires to develop and continue to maintain the software that has been custom built to enable our secure communication services increase. Do you like the services that Riseup offers? We’d like you to consider making a donation to Riseup Labs - the sibling organization that focuses on maintaining and developing the software we need to run Riseup Networks' services. https://riseuplabs.org/en/donate

For our users who work for an employer that has a matching donation program, please think of Riseup Labs. If you can’t find us in the relevant registry, let us know and we’ll see what we can do to make it possible for you leverage your donations to Riseup Labs through your employer.

Donations made to Riseup Labs, a 501©3 organization, are tax-deductible in the United States.