The Proxy Discussion Thread

Discussion in 'General Business' started by antman, Jul 14, 2007.

  1. Sohan

    Sohan Peon

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    #6801
    Say if I were to start a brand spanking new proxy (custom design etc) what would the money be like from Adsense + Bannerconnect?
     
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  2. prince4life

    prince4life Active Member

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    #6802
    Sohan.. what ever happened to your proxy blog? :D ... I was a big fan in seeing your improvement in proxy earnings :) .. Oh well, good luck this time though
     
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  3. z613

    z613 Peon

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    #6803
    I just bought theproxydiscussion.com If anyone here is interested in working on it with me, shoot me a PM. It will be a forum, place to advertise etc. Or if you have any input pm me!
     
    z613, May 10, 2008 IP
  4. cesarrri12

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    #6804
    so does anybody know
     
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  5. john111

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    #6805
    when?the summer holiday start?
     
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  6. Mr.Bill

    Mr.Bill Well-Known Member

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    #6806
    In So.Cal its the week of June 15th. I would imagine its around the same for all the US within 2 weeks so they can stager graduations. You have about a month to go.
     
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  7. SUB

    SUB Well-Known Member

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    #6807
    we can tell the proxy webmasters from the fly by nighters lol

    Come boys, pay the hosting fees, show the hosting providers the money lmao.
     
    SUB, May 10, 2008 IP
  8. Jarmas

    Jarmas Banned

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    #6808
    Cesarrri12, to answer your question, the best pop-unders are from Adversal currently who are paying $0.83 CPM for US and UK traffic impressions. The second best is GlobalInteractive pop-unders..have heard from some friends that they are getting anywhere from $0.30-$0.60 for their CPM. By the way Adversal is currently closed from new sign ups.
     
    Jarmas, May 10, 2008 IP
  9. Miguelmateos

    Miguelmateos Well-Known Member Premium Member

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    Hi guys I am new to proxy sites but I am no newbie just a newbie to proxys so hopefully you guys can help me out here

    Let me explain I just bought 2 proxy sites in an auction on sitepoint anyways neither site is new but I bought them because of the revenue they are earning and the steady growth in traffic they have had over the months and year both sites rank very high in the serps the main site in particular ranks at the top of google on some very high traffic keywords and normally this would make me really happy but I have a big problem my server can handle pretty much what ever I through at it but unfortunatly the bandwidth that I get with my dedicated server is only 1500 gigs and since I have taken over the sites only 4-5 days ago they have been increasing in search engine ranks and traffic I am guessing becuase my server is much faster then the server it was on plus I got a dedicated 100mps link and as I said normally I would just be so happy that the traffic is going up and up but the problem again is the bandwidth I will literally use up the 1500 gigs in 10-15 days the site uses phproxy and I just updated to the newest version I saw on here at the begining of this post that there was a bandwidth mod unfortunately I tested it on my site and it didn't work instead of sending the surfer or me in this case when I tested it to a proxified page it sent me to my other proxy site since the mod asked for a list of sites allowed to hotlink I added the 2 sites I just bought anyways

    is there a new mod or a fix to the old mod that can get the bandwidth down I know something is wrong also because for example I get on the front page only about 1000-3000 google impressions a day yet my awstats are showing 40k uniques and so far I just added bidvertiser on the proxified pages so far to day I am showing around 12k impressions except for awstats are showing closer to 500,000+ pages and hits per day on the server

    then another problem is the click through rate it is horrible which is why I think either I got alot of hotlinkers or bots or my ad placement sucks and I don't think it is the later

    also what country should I block from accessing my site and how do I go about blocking them or is there a free program that will geo locate them to some ad that I can make money on CPM or something

    if I can't fix this problem I will end up having to take a loss on the site and take it down maybe make the site into a directory for proxies I thought about a top list but they are to spamy for my taste any ideas on this and any help on the rest would be great full or last option would be to sell it and hope to get my money back or a profit since there is more traffic now then there was ;)

    Thanks for all the help in advance
     
    Miguelmateos, May 11, 2008 IP
  10. ronmac

    ronmac Well-Known Member

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    #6810
    hotlinking mod:

    <?

    /*
    Start MOD
    */


    /*
    PHProxy bandwidth MOD 1.1 by Rhett Canney (Billy Connite)
    This MOD will stop any hotlinking via PHProxy, even if the
    clients referer is not set!
    */

    // allow hotlinking from these sites, seperate by comma (make sure you eneter your site's domains)
    $domains="www.domain.com,domain.com";

    // convert domains into an array
    $domains=explode(",",$domains);

    // if there is a request:
    if($_GET['q']!="")
    {
    // get referer
    $referer=explode("/",($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']));
    // if the referer is not allowed:
    if(!in_array($referer[2],$domains))
    {
    // redirect to homepage and finish script
    header("Location: http://".$domains[0]."/");

    exit();
    }
    }



    /*
    END MOD
    */

    ?>


    -----------------------------------

    just put it in your index.php and change it to your domain
     
    ronmac, May 11, 2008 IP
  11. ronmac

    ronmac Well-Known Member

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    #6811
    Bandwith MOD

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    If you are using PHProxy script then you can activiate bandwidth limiting option to make control of your bandwidth and avoid having someone downloading big 700MB movies through your proxy and exausting your bandwidth and forcing your proxy to go down.

    In the index.php file search for

    'max_file_size' => -1,

    This means file size is unlimited

    Now writing number in this value will limit the max file size that can be downloaded through your proxy site

    I will show examples of the values you can put in this line

    This value is written in Bytes so 1mb = 1 * 1024 * 1024

    1 MB

    'max_file_size' => 1048576,



    5 MB (Recommended)

    'max_file_size' => 5242880,



    10MB

    'max_file_size' => 10485760,



    I don't recommend any value above 5MB which is more than enough for regular surfing through web pages and also some files like PDF documents and mp3 files.



    Any visitor trying to download a file bigger than the limit will be redirected to your proxy home page and see a message like.



    Resource Error: An error has occured while trying to browse through the proxy.
    The file your are attempting to download is too large.
    Maxiumum permissible file size is 5.00 MB
    Requested file size is 26.50 MB



    After editing this value just save the file and upload it and see bandwidth stats for the next day and you will notice big decrease in bandwidth usage with the ability to get more visitors for the same hosting package.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     
    ronmac, May 11, 2008 IP
  12. ronmac

    ronmac Well-Known Member

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    #6812
    redirecting a NON www to WWW
    EDIT HTACCESS

    send visitors of domain.com to www.domain.com

    helps with search enjines to avoid duplicate content

    put this in your .htaccess file and note that you need to replace domain.com to your own domain name keeping any other code unchanged



    Options +FollowSymLinks

    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.DOMAIN.com
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80
    RewriteRule (.*) http://www.DOMAIN.com/$1 [R=301,QSA,L]

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     
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  13. lolage

    lolage Active Member

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    Hi, im about to start a proxy network of around 20 sites. I already have 4 (cloakaccess.info handyaccess.info smoothaccess.info fixedaccess.info) I was told that if you have a network they should be similar or have a word in the domain which is the same, i chose "access".

    I have 4 options:

    1. Carry on with the "access" network. Although im worried incase the word access is already filtered, also admins may look at it and know its a proxy straight away.

    2. I could start from scratch and have educational domains with similar word. For example studymaths.info, studyenglish.info.

    3.
    I could have educational domains but make them not similar at all so make them random?

    4. I could have something like revise1, revise2, revise3 all the way to 20.

    Which option would you go for?

    Thanks.
     
    lolage, May 11, 2008 IP
  14. Jezz

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    #6814
    What is the importance of having similar domain names in the network?
    Why does it matter what the names are?
     
    Jezz, May 11, 2008 IP
  15. Sohan

    Sohan Peon

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    #6815
    Couldn't keep the proxies up. The revenue was so poor, it wasn't even paying it's self off. The blog is PR2 now :S
     
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  16. ronmac

    ronmac Well-Known Member

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    #6816
    Hey, I am startiinga blog in about 3-5 days time. Going to invite a few people to post a few tips and tricks along with the odd interview etc on proxy.biz PM me if you want to take part ( of course if you are posting you are welcome to add links etc )

    Jezz: The answer is NO and NO :p
     
    ronmac, May 11, 2008 IP
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    newzone Well-Known Member

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    #6817
    when you will launch proxy.biz ?
     
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  18. z613

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    #6818


    I can help out with that.

    Also http://theproxydiscussion.com/Forum/ is up and running. Anyone who wants to help out with this project, pm me. I am looking for suggestions, input, designers, etc!
     
    z613, May 11, 2008 IP
  19. prince4life

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    #6819
    It is tough at first but after getting the hang of the business it really pays off :) ... good luck next time though :)
     
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  20. Dollar

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    #6820
    Doesn't really matter, they'll know its proxy site once they see the huge base64 string on the url.;)
     
    Dollar, May 11, 2008 IP