HideMyAss : A New Online VPN Purchased By Avast

If you put aside the additional services that HideMyAss Online offers (more on this later) and judge HideMyAss strictly for VPN services, the only unique selling proposition that HideMyAss has is the server strength. It is perhaps the only characteristic that allows HideMyAss to stand tall and proud in the VPN industry.

HideMyAss Online has a separate tab on the home page touting ‘Servers’. Not a lot of VPN service providers can do that, but HideMyAss does it with pride. I’m talking 890+ VPN servers spread out across in 310 locations in 190+ countries. That gives HideMyAss the power to make over 121060+ IP addresses available for its VPN users. A very large concentration of HideMyAss’s servers is positioned in the United States (Over 300). The second largest concentration of HideMyAss’s servers is located in European countries, followed by server counts in the UK region and the North American/Canadian regions. Asian, South American, Central American and African regions have at least one server in each country.

The server locator on the website is pretty nifty but I somehow feel that it would have been better if HideMyAss had presented a server-load distribution instead of a simple list boasting the server count.

HideMyAss offers OpenVPN, PPTP and L2TP on all servers – and I’m very impressed with the IP count listing as well, but all of that information is useless for me if I don’t know how much load which server is currently experience. All that jazz does not really add more than a cursory utility to my user experience.

It has the largest number of VPN servers in the industry and is known to consistently deliver quality service. It rarely comes up with discount offers (only two actually: Summer holidays and New Year) and has a live chat support system that is online only 12 hours out of every 24. And it can do that because it is one of the best VPN services in the world right now.