The Proxy Discussion Thread

Very good point, thanks Matt, how would I go about doing that though?

And this makes no sense to me, but I thank nick-a for his input. If anybody would like to dumb things down further, feel free.

 

how much bandwidth in MB are you guys using x EACH user?

ps:geoip could be used if you dont want some country to use your site then you can redirect those countries to different sites instead of your proxy, those sites could be different offers for each country.

 

Yea that's a nice idea, and I will definately be trying it since I blocked China and some other countries off my main proxy. Redirect them to another proxy and cool >.>

 

damn,
today i had 137 visits, and 950mb burned from PHPproxy.
I have hotlinking disabled, max file size is 3mb only.
most users are usa/uk myspaceusers, traffic from SEs.
why it burned so much?

 

Maybe because max file size is 3mb? You might want to reduce that to say 300KB or less.

 

and maybe the myspace users watched some Videos ?!
isnt it possible?!

 

Not to be a jerk, but I am having a problem on my PHProxy site. When I try to login to a facebook account on mrbubbles.info it tries to download something. Can someone confirm this? Thanks guys.

 

I would also like to know how to redirect traffic from certain countries to one site so i can put popups on it etc

 

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-3513_11-6103179.html

HTML:

there are a lot of ways to do it this one will be the best for u if you dont know too much php, if you know php just download the geo ip location database and work with that.

 

http://www.samdaves.com/blog/?s=geoip

he gives you the code, just change "http://www.joinlist.info" to the site you want to redirect the traffic to. That how I do it

 

I would set it to 100K max file size. That is plenty for any picture on myspace and in general. You can also pick up a bandwidth/cahche handler mod from programmers here on DP. I got one from PepsiPunk for less then $50 and it cut my bandwidth by half. May not be worth it at less then a GB per day, but I use 60-70GB per day with the bandwidth mods so its hugely worth it for me on my hosting bill.
Pepsipunk- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=309714

This is not hard, but a bit longer then I may be able to answer at the moment. I will give it a try, if it doesn't make sense just say so and I will try to come back and give a more detailed explanation when I have a few more minutes. Here goes:

There are several ways to do it, but this is the way I found that works for me. I modify the .htaccess file - this doesn't work if you have windows hosting since the files doesn't exist. However since windows hosting is more expensive its not likely that you have it, also I don't think it is as good as linux anyway. ok back to the point - So I will try to explain in steps:

- First you have to determine where the traffic that you want to block is coming from. Google analytics is good for that, and its free. google.com/analytics

- next you need the most common ip addresses from the country or countries that you want to redirect. http://www.blockacountry.com/ is great for that. It will give you a list of ip addresses based on the country you choose. -NOTE this site will generate a file for you that will block a countries traffic, obviously you need to do a bit of editing to get it to redirect the traffic. Thus the next step

- add this line to the end of your .htaccess file and remove any other 403 error references.

ErrorDocument 403 http://www.xxxxxxx.xxx

Code (markup):

obviously replacing the xxxxx with your domain name

- then save that .htaccess file in your root directory - like public_html or whatever yours is.

For what its worth here is my .htaccess file, mind you its a bit messy, and I could clean it up. But it works and I am too busy to be efficient, or too lazy.. lol

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny

deny from 62.5.128.0/17
deny from 62.16.32.0/19
deny from 62.16.64.0/19
deny from 62.105.128.0/19
deny from 62.106.96.0/19
deny from 62.109.160.0/19
deny from 62.112.96.0/19
deny from 62.113.32.0/19
deny from 62.113.64.0/18
deny from 62.117.64.0/18
deny from 62.118.0.0/16
deny from 62.133.160.0/19
deny from 222.249.176.0/20
deny from 222.249.192.0/18 

allow from all
</LIMIT>
       

             
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.inetfreedom.info
AuthUserFile /home/inetfree/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/inetfree/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

ErrorDocument 403 http://www.intlinetfreedom.info

Code (markup):

The limit section with the ips actually blocks that ip from accessing your site, and then it serves them up the 403 error document that says that you aren't allowed. But in this case we tell it that the 403 document is located at the webpage that we want to redirect to. It doesnt know that it is not an errordocument, but infact the page we want them to be redirected to, so it redirects them to that page. Thus our redirect.

Note- I deleted a HUGE portion of the ip addresses so it would not waste space here in the post. My point being if you block a country like china and use this method be prepared for it to take several HUNDRED lines of ip addresses. Also this is not the most server friendly way to do it, perhaps even crude. But again. it WORKS, and thats all that matters to me.

So to summarize this method works. I spent days trying to figure this out. I tried all kinds of things. Like I said there are other ways, but this works. Some would say that just using the geoip feature to redirect by country rather then IP would be eaiser, and indeed it would. But my webhost does not support geoip by default, and I don't know how to install it, so here we are.

MAtt

 

I've got www.cloakus.com and www.concealus.info ... doing pretty well, should recoup what I paid for them within a week

 

...Cont. from my above post on redirecting and monetizing traffic

as for monetizing the traffic once it gets redirected thats another story. I personally use Adsense and find that for about 10,000 home pages views per day I get about $10. That equates out to be about 25GB per day with my tests. (I can't remember if that is based with or without my bandwidth/ cache handlers so give or take twice/half that...srry)

On my current proxies I pay for premium hosting and support. For INTL traffic I would either redirect to a proxy hosting on a cheaper host or just do the math and see if it works on yours. In my case I can buy a VPS from my host and I get a discount becuase I already have my current setup. So I would just by a VPS with the appropirate bandwidth. I figured that for every 750 GB I can make about $300 with adsense and that would cost me about $100 from my host thus a $200 profit. - Give or take a little, or mabye quite a bit.

Keep in mind that these are rough numbers, based on my past experience. Disclaimer - Past performance may not be indicative of future results. - lol thought I would sound professional, probably misspelled some words.. ohwell its a fun day today. lol

*** VERY IMPORTANT - Bandwidth overage can KILL you, know your hosting plan before you start. INTL traffic can explode over night and double or even triple. So check your bandwidth usage DAILY! I failed to do this the first time around and wound up with a $800 hosting bill, and that was after I banned all of the INTL traffic half way thru the month. Also of note is that if you get cold feet and ban traffic for even a day, you will lose 90% of that traffic forever. So do it right the first time, I did not do it right, learn from my mistakes. You can make money with INTL traffic if you do your home work. If you are lazy and don't do your homework and know what your getting into, then you webhost will be the one making the money. ***

That having been said I would love to have all the INTL traffic I can get, as I believe I can make a lot of money from it.

MAtt

 

can someone tell me, how to install the cgi proxy template , is it just same as php proxy installation, plug n play

and can some tell me how to promote proxy top site, because they are also good source of traffic & money

 

out of all folks in here, do you think its ok to ban/deny traffic for abusers countries? like china? adsense barly pays for those clicks anyway.. so other then traffic i dont really see that we making anything out of it.

also, what bothers me the most that i get IP from china accessing my proxy and then going back to surf Chinese porn site...

it makes no sense for me...

 

chinnese culture is kinda freak about porn, drugs and that kind of stuff lol... maybe they dont want someone knows they see porn haha

if you dont care about bandwidth and you dont want to show adsense to those countries you can use geoip to display other ads

 

A comment on building your proxy network up to great levels...

I got my 20 site proxy network to $1400 this month and its growing month by month. A few months back I purchased an up and coming forum devoted to proxies and then marketed it to both proxy website owners and proxy users. The interaction was amazing.

I self promoted my proxies with my own popular proxy forum! I'm selling that forum now, it's much bigger now if you want to use it for the same purpose.

 

I use about 1-6 gigs / day for my 2 proxies

 

I need someone who can get facebook and myspace to fully work in my phpProxy script & I will pay them if their up for the job. If anybodies interested, please pm me, thanks.

 

which's your adsense ctr in your proxy sites guys? ?