Yeah, it's been a while. Hi. I gave up proxies and lists over 12 years ago, just got out in time I think. Smart phones killed the niche imo, everyone had internet access in their hands with them and didn't need to hide on work/school pc's anymore. I had a lot (hundreds!) of glype proxies over about 4 years I was involved in it, not all at once of course, but lots of cheap dot info domains and some dot coms too. I even made custom themes for glype because I could. I ran a few proxy lists as well, one in particular did really well, I was in netbuilders forum so had the atproxy script for lists, then got a buy-out offer and gave it all up and got a proper job, lol. But seriously, I made a few quid/bucks for some years and it was good while it lasted. Glype proxy has long since been discontinued and I doubt it would work properly these days (though not tried it, don't have vps now) and vpn's are the 'thing' these days, easy to use and cheap enough for most people. I don't know if proxies would be any use in today's world, but don't let me stop you trying and let us all know how it goes. Good luck.
The web proxy I was able to build was better than glype but... with the limitations of the technology and the fact that every website these days seems to employ websockets among other things... yeah.. The internet really has changed since the good'ol days it seems. I miss those days, the traffic I was able to generate running my own ads on my network was amazing....
Proxies are still very useful today They’re not just for anonymity — businesses use them for SEO, market research, ad verification, managing multiple accounts, and bypassing geo-restrictions. Residential and mobile proxies especially remain in demand because they look like real user traffic, which reduces blocks and bans. So while the old idea of proxies might feel outdated, their modern applications are very relevant.
Yes, those good old day, when i'm also running, proxy listing website as well Glype Proxy sites.. and getting good revenue.
The point about avoiding the word proxy in the domain is still valid, even now. Blocks are mostly pattern based, so the name alone can kill a domain before it gets traction. From my experience SEO does not really suffer if the content and internal linking are solid, users rarely type proxy as a navigational query anyway. When a clean domain gets blocked, I usually rotate it fast and redirect traffic, no sentiment attached. Running a small network matters more than squeezing value from a single domain. Traffic sources outside search, forums, socials, referrers, keep things alive when Google drops you. Bandwidth and server limits are the real bottleneck, not scripts. CGI vs PHProxy issues are mostly resource related, once traffic spikes weak setups fall over. These days I also separate crawling and user traffic, sometimes via an SEO proxy layer like jalvo.eu just to keep indexing stable. End of the day, uptime and speed matter more than clever domain names. If users can actually load pages at school, they come back.