About Us | 1FT

Our Story

Built In 2016 Around One Refusal

We started because every provider we looked at answered the same question the same way: a marketing page about how much they care, and no detail about what is written to disk.

So we built the network the other way round. Servers boot from signed read-only images into memory, with no writable disk to hold a log. Access is issued by a coordinator rather than a signup form, so nothing about an account is exposed on a public page.

Bare-metal gateways on hardware we own, not rented virtual machines.
An external assessor reviews the no-logs claim annually.
Credentials issued by a named person, never published on this site.
The subscription is the entire business model, so there is nothing to sell on the side.

What Drives Us

Four Rules We Actually Use

We keep nothing

The safest record is the one that was never written. Every design decision here starts from what we can avoid collecting rather than what we can promise to protect.

A person, not a queue

Accounts are opened by hand and support is answered by the coordinator who opened yours. It does not scale infinitely, and that is the point.

Honest about limits

A VPN protects a connection. It does not make you anonymous, it does not replace a password manager, and we will tell you so before you pay us.

One price, written down

Your figure is confirmed in writing before anything is charged, and it does not quietly triple at the first renewal.

Timeline

How The Network Grew

2016

Four engineers and one rack

Founded after a contract job exposed how much connection data a mid-sized provider was quietly retaining. The first location was a single rack in Amsterdam serving fewer than two hundred members.

2019

Diskless fleet

Every node was rebuilt to boot from a signed read-only image into memory. Nothing about a session has touched a disk in our network since.

2021

First external audit

An independent assessor reviewed the no-logs claim against the running configuration rather than the policy document. The review has been repeated annually since.

2023

Business gateways

Private gateways with static company addresses opened to organisations, after two years of running the same setup for a handful of long-standing members.

2025

68 countries

The network passed 3,400+ servers while the support desk stayed deliberately small, which is why access is still granted by request rather than by checkout page.

Our Standards

Claims We Can Back Up

Independently audited

Our no-logs claim and server configuration are reviewed annually by an external assessor, and the summary is sent to any member who asks for it.

Diskless infrastructure

Every node boots from a signed read-only image into volatile memory. There is no writable disk in the fleet to compel, image or seize.

Owned, not rented

We operate our own bare metal in 68 countries rather than reselling shared cloud capacity, so nobody else holds the hypervisor above your traffic.

Rotated keys

Session keys rotate every two minutes and server keys every deployment cycle, so a single compromised key opens a two-minute window and nothing more.

Partnerships

Advertise & Collaborate

We are always open to new opportunities, high-impact collaborations, and tailored business partnerships. Whether you want to advertise your brand to our audience, launch a joint project, or book our professional services, we are ready to bring your ideas to life. Every business is unique, and we don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Please reach out to us using the contact form below, tell us a bit about your goals, and our team will get back to you with an exclusive, custom-tailored proposal designed strictly for your budget and objectives. Let's build something great together.

Brand partnerships

Reach a privacy-conscious audience of 412K members through placements that never compromise the product.

White-label and reseller

Run the network under your own brand, with seat management and billing handled on your side.

Affiliate and referral

Recurring commission on every member you bring, with reporting you can actually audit.

Infrastructure partners

Data centre operators and transit providers in regions where members are asking for a location.

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