Have the Tampa and Orlando VPN locations been removed?
I hope not as this doesn’t seem like it would be a very good business decision considering Florida is home to 21.6 million people and the THIRD most populous state in the US, potentially killing 2/3rds of the state’s users providing they switched from ExpressVPN for the precise reason of only having a Miami VPN location.
Yup, they killed it! As someone who is in Orlando, it sucks having my local server gone. Anyone know of a better VPN that has more local US servers?
How long has this happen for? Are u sure they not just taking the server down for maintenance?
Hey there!
The main reason Tampa and Orlando / St. Louis servers were permanently turned off is that these servers did not meet our quality requirements in terms of speed and connection quality.
Due to the technical peculiarities of these servers, we were not able to increase their quality to the desired level. Thus we came to a decision to turn them off and focus on further improving the quality of servers in nearby locations which have better performance potential.
If you are trying to reach Orlando server locations try connecting to nearby locations - Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte.
As for the Tampa and St. Louis servers - I’d highly recommend connecting to closer locations like Miami instead of Tampa and Kansas/Latham/Chicago instead of St. Louis servers.
Cheers!
It’s been about a week. I emailed their support earlier today and haven’t heard back yet.
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Damn, seems like you are right.