Protecting the interest of our customers and ensuring the stability of the service have been key principles for IVPN since starting our operations more than ten years ago. To keep delivering on these promises, we have made the decision to gradually phase out the port forwarding feature from the IVPN...
The pond is shrinking. Who's left with port forward?
As of today (29 June 2023), Port forwarding is not offered for new customers as part of the Pro plan. Further, existing IVPN Pro customers cannot reserve new ports. Existing reservations will stay in place, and can be disabled by manual action.
We are disabling all reserved ports and completely remove this feature from our service on 30 September 2023.
There are other providers but these generally don't meet our requirements as they don't have open source clients or have no audits or are generally not as trustworthy.
WIndscribe also has ephemeral port forwarding and we are looking at adding that some time. Audits have now been completed and they are refactoring some iOS code, then it will be good to go.
People want it for torrenting or hosting things to the outside world. /c/Piracy has been flipping out because Mullvad removed port forwarding, which now apparently makes them one of the worst VPNs ever.