Proxy Site Bandwidth Usage

I keep thinking about adding an anonymous web proxy script to one of my existing web sites.

Does anyone have reliable data on the bandwidth usage of a web proxy script?

Am I looking at 5KB per visitor or 5MB per visitor?

THANKS!

 

Well ive only had my proxy site for 8 hours.

240 Unique / 89.25 MB Bandwith

348.73 KB/ Per visitor

Accordig to AWstats. .....

( A tip: Use gzip compression)
Insert this in top of index.php

<?php
ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' );
?>


Will save you some BW and make site load fast

LuffE

 

Little off topic but i am interested in proxy scripts.
What kind of these websites are actually?

 

PHPproxy (Free) http://whitefyre.com/poxy/

 

What are the reasons why you would recommend PHProxy over CGIProxy?

 

My largest proxy doesn't use much bandwidth at all..not sure why others do.
Today I served about 160k pageviews to about 1k visitors, only used 17mb. It's not so much the bandwidth you have to worry about, it's the processing power. Two of my proxies (which have peak hours during working hours in the US) take up almost an entire dual xeon 3.0 box with 2gb ram.

From my (limited) understanding, phproxy is much lighter on the server load but lacks some of the features of CGIProxy (I don't think you can use forms at all with phproxy, ie no using a login box)

 

Hopefully a related proxy question. I too am considering adding one.

I have noticed on my sites, they are sometimes viewed with a proxy. When I check to see how my site looks, I notice all my iframe ads (let's say adultfriendfinder) are replaced with the proxy owners aduldff ads. Anyway, slightly annoying, but hey, if you can't beat em, join em. So is it that easy, I can get my ads to run on top of another sites ads by running a proxy site?

Now, the bandwidth issue and my total lack of programming skills are the only other questions.

 

I was thinking of putting a proxy server on one of my existing domains, when suddenly I realized that this would most likely get that entire site banned by WebSense, Smartfilter, etc...

Luckily, new domains are cheap. I'll just register a throw-away domain if I want to put a web proxy online.

 

That is what I do

In addition, replacing another webmasters ads seems kind of devient to me (I guess I draw the line at just running a proxy), but it of course can be done since you are serving up the content. My proxies allow you to filter out ads, but I do not replace them with my own ads...

 

blockmenot.com gets 8MB/visitor, that's over an average of 2k uniques/day

 

My intent was to offer my surfers who are using a proxy..MY proxy. That way my ads still show on my sites.

To me is seems that when someone visits my site with a proxy it looks like all my Iframe ads get blocked, either with an ad or the proxy menu. Either way, the proxies kill my ads.

 

I forgot, if you have a dedicated server, you have to double that, since Awstats only shows outbound traffic, but you do get inbound traffic when your server downloads the sites!

 

Eight megabytes of outbound bandwidth per visitor? WOW.

My current #1 site uses less than 10% of that much outbound bandwidth per visitor, and almost no incoming bandwidth.

How do you make money with anonymous proxies?

 

Get bandwidth dirt cheap, and then put ads on the site.

http://www.blockmenot.com/
You can see the blending of the ads.

 

What is the secret of so much less bandwidth usage ?

And please tell me web hosts care about inbound traffic or not?

 

Shared webhosts don't.

VPS hosts might, and Dedicated server hosts most definitely will.

 

First, your site looks good.

Your adbite ads also look sweet on my site, they cover my adultff ads Seriously, I don't care. Good for you.

Is PHProxy 0.4 hard to modify and place the ads?

Thanks

 

Hmm...are your ads in frames? I never had problems with Google Ads being covered by the URL form or anything, and disable scripts is not enabled by default (on my server).

PHProxy is fairly easy to modify. You can modify the URL form by editing an include file, and the main page is editable; it's a part in index.php.

I find it easier than CGIProxy, but take that with a grain of salt since I code PHP.

 

Bandwidth usage depends on your visitors that uses your proxy but in the average, expect to have more bandwith if your users are frequent visitor of social networks that has personalization of for it has multimedia.

Technically:
CGIProxy is much resource intensive but has the advantage of supporting more sites. And kinda bit difficult to configure and install

While:

PHPProxy is less resource intensive but is short of the sites supported. Also it is easily configurable than the latter. as all configurables were neatly compiled and placed on its respected folders.

Hope it helps.

 

What kind of support is lacked in phproxy?