Technology Reports

While researching the whole proxy idea, I followed a link at digitalpoint and came across a useful site.  The site is a series of articles on making a succesful proxy site.  It is broken up into various topics, and at face value it looks really good.

I will be monitoring it, and commenting on how the info compares to my own efforts.  At the moment, they only have 4 articles published, but that’s ok!  The 4 articles cover everything that I have done or am doing to date.

Well, I spent a bit of time researching and found that there is 3 places to go to get different sorts of proxy scripts

• CGI Proxy
• PHProxy
• Another PHP based Proxy with different features

Sure, there might be others around that would be ok, but with a 10 minute Search I found these 3 choices. They all do things in slightly different ways. 

For now, I have installed phproxy and it was pretty easy.  The skinning of it was not too bad and a basic white on black design took only an hour or so.  I spent a bit of time reading up on the config options and after a bit of testing sorted it out so that it is as fast as possible when surfing to various sites.

Now, I have the script installed, I have started looking at the best free ways of promoting the site.  The first thing I did was to check out all the ways I promoted my other sites and checked out how many of the same things I could do.

I have already got a couple of link exchanges with some freebie sites and within 1 day have already seem about 20 visitors to the proxy.  Not a bad start, so over the next few days I’ll do a few more link exchanges and see how it all turns out.

A few days ago on a webmaster forum I read with interest that some people are doing quite well from running Proxy’s.

Some of the results seemed too good to be true, but as I had no evidince either way I decided to set up a proxy and try it for myself and see how it all goes.  So, after reading a bit I discovered that there are a couple of different proxy scripts.  There is a CGI based script and there is a PHP based one.

They both have their individual strengths and weaknesses, the CGI one uses less bandwidth and more CPU, whereas the PHP one uses much less CPU and higher bandwidth.  As I am just starting out, and I have a reasonable amount of bandwidth available I have decided to start by using a PHP one.

So, over the next day or so, I will install a script and give it a custom skin and then start promoting it.  I’ll do my best to post every few days as to how it is going.