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Why RAM-only servers are the only servers we trust

Jonas Reiter·April 28, 2026· 4 min read

Disk-based VPN servers can be seized and read. RAM-only servers wipe themselves the moment power blinks. Here's why that distinction is everything.

Traditional servers write their operating system, logs, and configs to a physical disk. If someone walks into the datacenter with a court order — or worse, a screwdriver — they walk out with every byte that disk ever stored.

A RAM-only server keeps everything in volatile memory. Pull the plug, even for a millisecond, and the entire machine evaporates. No logs, no configs, no user data — by design, not by promise.

Every ScreenConnect Vault server runs this way. We don't just claim zero-log; the architecture makes logging physically impossible.