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If you’ve read my last posts, you’d already know I ventured into building web proxies last month observing they are quite hot at the moment. Web proxies simply allow cloaked anonymous browsing of almost any site, mainly the ones blocked by content filters or firewalls at ISPs, organizations and workplaces. After a bit of research and reading different webmaster forums for days, I concluded that for a running successful network of web proxies, I’d need a decent dedicated server with ample bandwidth; because proxy sites chew up too much server resources and bandwidth.

I’m a regular at Web Hosting Talk forums (better known as WHT among informed webmasters) and began my search for the …

Probably you’ve heard about web proxies. If you didn’t, then in simple language, web proxies enable bypassing of content filters and firewalls to browse blocked websites through your normal web browser. Why and where are some websites blocked? Perhaps you’ve seen at your school, office or workplace that certain sites have been blocked simply due to their popularity or nature. Common types of sites blocked are social networking, online games, sports, dating and adult.

This is done as so as to ensure that students and employees don’t access such sites and kill time, resulting in less productivity, Internet abuse and access harmful and objectionable sites not suitable to be browsed at public places and …