So last year i was planning to buy a concert ticket and i spend like 2 hours refreshing the website because everyone was accessing the same site. and of course when it finally works the tickets already sold out. The same thing happen when i tried to buy a Blizzcon ticket which has the same issue and sold out in an hour or 2.
Does using a VPN (maybe through UK, Netherland, or Singapore) gives me a higher chance to get through that issue?
No, that’s not what a VPN is for or how it works. You are still accessing the same server that is hosting the site selling concert tickets.
Now if you lived in the UK and the site was blocked from any country that is not the US, then a VPN would be helpful in masking your location and making you look like you are from the US. But a VPN is not going to help you navigate through a site faster than anyone else trying to navigate the site. If anything, it could make it worse.
Maybe but 9 times out of 10 probably not. It would really depend on how the site u are trying to reach is set up. It is possible that the site is doing really terrible load balancing and traffic is hammering only one server based on geographic location. So say the company has servers in the US and in Europe. If you live in Europe you get Europe’s server and so on. If the concert is in Europe obviously the European server will be slammed but the us be ok. You could vpn into the us to try and get access to that server which has a lower load. But this whole scenario assumes:
Those are 2 big ifs. But hey it might be worth a try. Of course you also pay a cost for doing this because your traffic will be slower by using a VPN - you take a longer route to the server and you have to decrypt / encrypt the packet.
No. That depends on your internet speed. VPNs don’t make your internet faster.
I sometimes get blocked going to certain websites when on my VPN, because VPNs are often used by hackers and spammers to hide their identity, so some websites block IP ranges that VPNs use.
So in addition to the routing and encryption delays that a VPN might add, there is a possibility that some ticketing agencies might block IP addresses ranges of VPNs or, without you knowing, assign a lower priority to traffic from those ranges. I don’t know if that’s ever happened, but I just think VPN might only hurt your chances of getting tickets faster.