Learn how to create your own proxy server for free in 5 Minutes with Google App Engine with video tutorial by Amit Agarwal. A simple Google search and you’ll find dozens of really good PHP scripts on the Internet to help you create proxy servers in minutes for free. The only limitation with PHP based proxies is that you require a web server to host the proxy scripts and second, you also need a domain name to act as an address for your proxy site. If you don’t own a domain or server space, you can still create a personal proxy server for free and that too without requiring any technical knowledge. Read More
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Create Free Proxy Server (video tutorial)
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Making money with proxy website
Setting up a proxy server is one of the latest online money making ideas. You will need an initial investment to set up a proxy server. The first investment is to have your own website. You can either go for free web hosting or a more reliable option would be to find a cheap web hosting provider. The next thing is to set up the server now depending how tech savvy you are you may either enlist the help of a techie or do it yourself. The best part is that there is a wealth of information on the topic. However if you terms like routers, Firefox, CGI proxy are all new and confusing too you may want to call up a friend or a professional who knows a few things. Alternatively you also have kits available online that take you through instructional videos to help you set up your proxy. You can set up a proxy server on a Mac or on a PC. You will need to ensure that your web hosting service provider supports php or cgi. You will need to download a copy of phpproxy or cgiproxy depending on what you are using. Read More
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SEO tips for running a proxy
Using SEO, you could boost your sales. Using SEO to get traffic to your proxy is not a bad idea. If you make some keyword analysis on proxy-related words then you’ll find that the phrase “proxy” is searched for 20,400,000 each month. The words “free proxy” are searched for 1,500,000 times. The words “web proxy” and “proxies” are near the same.
Getting high in the Search Engines for competitive keywords for a proxy can make a bog standard proxy an excellent one. It can increase its value considerably and increase your profit by even more! There are many on page and off page things that you will need to do to get good Search Engine Ranking Positions (SERPs). These techniques can take a few months to be reflected in search engines so you have to decide whether your going to make a quick proxy or a long lasting one. If your going to make a quick turn around proxy it may not be worth doing some of these techniques, but if your making a long last one, this is defiantly worth a read. Read More
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SEO meets security
When you set up a blog or forum on a separate server, you still want to have it linked from the main site, typically using subdomains like forums.sitename.com or blog.sitename.com. The problem with this approach for SEO purposes is that search engines regularly treat each subdomain as a separate site when counting incoming links. The incoming link juice is therefore split among the domains. Google makes an exception only when displaying search results.
The single domain will benefit from higher rankings if links to the subdomains are funneled to the main one. Luckily, there is a technique to do this — reverse proxies. Read More
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Alternative for free proxylists
Crowds is an idea from Michael Reiter and Avi Rubin at AT&T. The basic idea is to become anonymous by joining a large and geographically diverse group (crowd), and to pass browsing requests to a random member of your crowd. In effect, every member of the crowd runs a proxy server for the benefit of the eveyone else. Web servers are unable to learn the true source of a request because it is equally likely to have originated from any member of the crowd, and even collaborating crowd members cannot distinguish the originator of a request from a member who is merely forwarding the request on behalf of another.
Crowds seems to have been replaced by a a second generation project called Tor.
Tor is free software and an open network that protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol. Read More
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Proxy Hosting Services
There are two main reasons why you want to create your own proxy site: first, you have safety concerns about using public proxies, such as getting virus or spyware; second, you want to start your proxy business and make some money. So, you did some research, downloaded a free proxy script, installed it on your local test server. However, the most difficult and troublesome task one has to face in proxy business is finding a good proxy hosting service. Because a normal shared hosting provider doesn’t allow proxy in their servers, they have to find a special server which is used for hosting proxy only. And because of the resource consumption of proxy sites, proxy hosting is much costlier than normal shared hosting. Besides, one has to find a fast and reliable hosting because otherwise, the visitors will not come again.
Proxy hosting seems like a challenge, especially for beginners. After all, you need to deal with things like Server Types, Bandwidth, and Price. Read More
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Where do they take public proxies?
Proxies can be used both for the good and the bad, anyway they are still being made – new and new proxies are coming in daily for this reason.
A proxy server is a software program that enables multiple computers to share a single internet connection. A properly functioning and secure proxy server only accepts connections from the local addresses on the local area network that it shares the Internet connection for, and then handles the sending and recieving of requests on the Internet.
An “open” or insecure proxy server will accept any requests from any computer (whether on the local area network it’s supposed to be sharing the internet connection for or any computer on the internet) to share the internet connection. This enables any user with sufficient knowlege to use your internet connection for whatever they want if you have an insecure proxy server running.
In most cases an open proxy is unknown to the server owner. This can result from misconfiguration of proxy software running on the computer, or from infection with malware (viruses, trojans or worms) designed for this purpose. There are hundreds of thousands of open proxies online. Many open proxies run very slowly, while other times the speed may change from fast to slow every minute.
Some proxy-websites actively scan for such open proxy servers. Read More
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Free proxy software
UltraSurf is the flagship software product from UltraReach Internet Corp. It enables users inside countries with heavy Internet censorship to visit any public websites in the world safely and freely. It has implemented a complex proxy with complete transparency and a high level of encryption on the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) platform. UltraSurf enables users to browse any website just the same as using the regular IE browser while it automatically searches the highest speed proxy servers in the background. Read More
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Using SSH as a SOCKS proxy (video tutorial)
Sometimes it’s useful to tunnel all web traffic over SSH, without having to start Firefox on a remote computer. For example, to work around network monitoring or snooping, or to avoid badly configured routers on the Internet. If you can change the settings on your web browser, you can probably use SSH to circumvent these filters. Read More
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HTTP, SOCKS & CGI
HTTP proxy server is a proxy, allowing working on the Internet with HTTP and (not always) FTP protocols. It (as well as other proxy servers) can carry out caching of information downloaded from the Internet. HTTP proxy servers have several anonymity levels. It depends on purposes, which a proxy is used for, so an anonymity requirement is not always an essential one. Conditionally HTTP proxy servers by their anonymity degree could be divided onto: Transparent, Anonymous, Distorting, High anonymous (elite) (see my previous post). Now HTTP proxy servers are the most widespread. Their support (ability to use them) is included into many programs: browsers, download managers etc.
SOCKS is an Internet protocol that facilitates the routing of network packets between client-server applications via a proxy server. Though this protocol was developed long ago enough, it is rather new (compared to the HTTP proxy). SOCKS allows to work with any protocols. A socks proxy simply transfers data from a client to a server, not penetrating into this data contents (therefore it can work with HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, NNTP, etc.). Read More
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Proxy types
Transparent or non-anonymous proxies (proxy servers) do not hide your IP address. They do provide anyone with your real IP address and do not hide any information about you and your reading interests. Actually they just retransmit information between your computer and server without modyfying it in any way to keep your privacy. Besides that, they let anyone know that you are surfing through a proxy server. Transparent proxy servers can be used for all kinds of Web-services just to speed up data transfers.
Distorting proxy servers hide your IP address or modify it in some way to prevent target server know about it. They may provide or may hide information about you and your reading interests. Besides that, they let anyone know that you are surfing through a proxy server. Distorting proxy servers can be used for all kinds of Web-services to speed up data transfers and to keep your privacy. But they specificly tells target server that you are using proxy server.
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How to use free proxies
Ok, now that you find proxy, you can use them for web-surfing. Every browser in existance is already equipt to use them, and the technology to provide them is already ubiquitous, because for all practical purpose, a proxy server is the same thing as a firewall.
Changing proxy settings in Internet Explorer (IE):
Tools–>Internet Options—>Connections—>LAN Settings
In the proxy server section tick the box labelled “Use a proxy server for your LAN”. Put found proxy address in the address box and the port number in the port box then click “OK”.
If you have done everything correctly you should now be able to visit any sites you are IP blocked from.
Changing proxy settings in FireFox:
FireFox -> Tools -> Options… -> Advanced -> Network -> Connection Read More
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Proxylists and websites
Free lists of proxies can be found everywhere on the net. Widely spread format for them is “hostname:port”. Almost every provider offer a proxy for their customers. These proxies are mostly not anonymous. If you have a reliable proxy, then you should be able to get though the server. Here are links to proxy sites, that I use. They might work for you too. Just keep trying proxies from the lists until you get a working one. You might want to pick a US proxy as those work best. I don’t recommend to use China proxies as it lags too much and most sites are banned even though you have proxy.
- http://tools.rosinstrument.com – mostly public proxies
- http://www.proxz.com – imho it’s a good site for searching both public and anonymous proxy
- http://www.xroxy.com/proxylist.php – you can filter proxylist by proxy port, type of proxy, SSL support, country, latency. This site is not too comfortable but it’s old and verified
- http://www.atomintersoft.com/free_proxy_list – 10% of all proxies will work
- http://www.proxylist.net – usually you won’t find many proxies there, most of them are CoDeeN, but sometimes they offer good anonymous proxies
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Reasons for using the proxy
Going through a proxy is useful for the following:
- Privacy and Security: the first reason is when you want to surf anonymously and don’t be track by someone who can have your IP
- Bypassing filters, filtered websites that your school or company or your country block (for example accessing social networking sites: MySpace, Facebook; news sites)
- Bypassing IP bans for certain countries or for your computer (on the forum)
- Voting multiple times on websites that only allow one vote per visitor
Good advantage of using proxies is that the IP address and other details of the user is not logged. This helps to make sure that the user can retain a degree of anonymity and privacy. Websites that you visit online routinely record and log certain information about you and can even build up a profile of your surfing habits. The scary thing is that I or you do not know what they do with that information. Certain pieces of information is not a problem but some are, especially as websites are getting more sophisticated at tracing you and recording whatever details they do. The information that is recorded and stored and what they do with it varies from website to website. The most common pieces of information that are stored are your IP address, browser type, geographical location, your ISP, MAC address, referring site or webpage and many others. Read More
