My Proxy is a Bandwidth Hog

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SclekHosting

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Well just yesterday I moved it off the old shared host and onto my server. Then today I checked cPanel and it has used more than 1gb of bandwidth a day! I think if it reaches around 5gb/day I will be getting a vps for it.

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I remember the good old days when I ran one proxy. I didn't know anything about it, so at first I put it on the shared hosting environment, and it blew up in traffic, so I had to get a VPS for it, and it dominated it, too.. I wasn't going to get a dedicated server for it, so I shut it down.

Proxies attract large crowds, predominantly from countries you can't capitalize on from an advertising perspective. As I learned from my experience, you really have to invest heavily if you want to run a proxy as a business, as there is more to it than just running an off-the-shelve script.
 
Well adversal seems to pay me for any country that visits the site. Just that if traffic is from USA I get paid more than from other countries.

If I ever need to get a dedicated machine for it, I will probably have several proxy sites running on the one machine.
 
Proxies are not bad if you know to use them to benefit you. If you run multiple proxy sites that bring in good traffic each, you could make some $$ off adsense. A buddy of mine runs over 20 proxy sites, and (from what he tells me) makes $5+ a day off em. It is a low amount, but again, isn't bad. So, I think it is how you go about doing it that is key.
 
romes said:
Proxies are not bad if you know to use them to benefit you. If you run multiple proxy sites that bring in good traffic each, you could make some $$ off adsense. A buddy of mine runs over 20 proxy sites, and (from what he tells me) makes $5+ a day off em. It is a low amount, but again, isn't bad. So, I think it is how you go about doing it that is key.
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Actually $5 on 20 sites isn't much. You have to know how to properly set it up. At the time I was running 1 site it was earning $7-10/day on average. However, proxies grow so fast that the costs were growing exponentially as well. However, after analyzing traffic logs at the end of my first month, I decided it wasn't for me.
 
Web proxies also bring heavy traffic on the server's DNS servers. They hog resources especially when someone uses them to view videos.
 
May want to check with your shared host's terms of service. MOST hosts do not permit the running of a Proxy on their shared servers and require VPS or Dedicated to operate due to the resources it consumes.

May want to check the TOS, and make a backup of your site just in case your host boots you for violation.
 
For one proxies are not allowed on most hosts for security reasons/hacking etc. And definitely not suitable for a shared environment which is why I find that out of place. Who are you with out of curiousity?
 
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