Well, while you’re at it making decision, why don’t you also go over and choose between long life for your proxy or short life, because both plans or similar plans offering drool-able amount of bandwidth for small are not just reasonable for a proxy hosting provider (Or shall I say for a legit, honest,caring provider). Understandable you wish to choose the lowest fee plan with greater resources limit but keep in mind, as long as you don’t see a pig flying, no one’s going to give a dedicate server for free to you for each proxy. “What the heck are you saying?” you may ask. Simply put, those larger resources are only available to you on dedicated servers, and never on shared hosting plans especially shared hosting providers for proxies. True, you need to save money and get the most profit out of it, but choosing such plans is just contradicting and halting your goals to have a successful proxy. if you can invest few dollars for hosting to gain back multiple of your investment, then proxies are not for you, and your proxies will never grow under you if you keep following the path of being frugal. Maybe, possible with other normal sites but not with proxies.

Why? Proxies uses resources. Most proxy hosting providers I know, they lure customers by showing the big “amazing” plans. “Oh yeah KMK keep bashing other proxy hosting providers”. Call me whatever you want, but either way, I am going to continue. They show you large plans and customers got attracted to those “lovely” plans without knowing what’s behind every marketing and what’s behind the provider’s mind. Without even reaching 3% of your shown bandwidth, your proxy will get shut down and your account will get terminated with no refunds. “You’re nuts, no they will not”. if you ask that, well you need much to learn about each proxy script and the load each causes on servers due to features or plugins embedded within the scripts. “Like you would know KMK”. I may not be catching up all the news going around me nor all the politics and technological advances, but I know for sure what is going on, the reasons and detailed info on my interests. If you don’t know yet, one of my interests and my projects is proxy business. I have been in proxy business for 4+ years and have come through many proxy scripts free or paid; cgi, proxono, zelune, glype, suffurogafier, phpproxy and many more. “Yeah me too, what’s so unique about it?” I have also experienced with most of the plugins and the server environments for proxies.

I will not be explaining the resource usages in detail because either you don’t even know what I just said since you are still busy searching for the sign up link for the “plans” stated in the title or you are willing to see what I have to say in the end. “Then don’t KMK. What makes you even think most proxy hosting providers are cheating off customers?” Well, it is simple, I also run my own public proxy hosting, and I have had up to date, 5 customers who left after their first month saying my plans are expensive and I give them too little resources. “Hah. Good with your attitude they would definitely leave! duh!” Thank you. But you should keep reading, those 5 customers moved on to different proxy providers and ALL 5 come back to me claiming and admitting they made a mistake and that their new hosting provider shut down their accounts with no refunds and to reinstate them to my server. And let me tell you about my attitude on those situations; I did not charge them reinstatement fee, and even give them their “misfortune” month hosting free of charge. “Bulls***, you will not do that KMK”. Well I will, I did and will always do because not only I discourage overselling and luring customers with false advertisement types, I am not a company nor work for a hosting copany so all rules are by me. Better yet, I don’t do for profit. The servers I am hosting my customers on are prepaid out of my pocket (well from the earnings from my other businesses), and I provide plans with rates which will payoff each server itself and will only use less than 90% of the server resources.

Enough about my experiences and let’s get back on real track. I can guarantee that as long as you keep falling for such “great offers”, you will not find a stable host and you will have to move around hosting a lot and your proxies will have difficulties in growing. try even using 0.5-1% of the cpu on your current proxy shared hosting provider, you will most likely get kicked out or warned. Also keep in mind the “baiters” have servers not optimized for proxies so the situation will be worst; while you can use x amount worry-free on proxy optimized servers, using even x amount can give you red flag from providers with servers as is and not optimized. Most don’t even bother to tweak or optimize and their ultimate goal is to gain money and profit as much as they can.

In order to avoid losing money to hosting and advertising due to hosting problems, and to avoid losing visitors who would have helped you gain $xx/month or more, think before you buy a proxy hosting plan. Be reasonable. An average dedicated server with 2000 GB BW cost about $99/month, so don’t expect guaranteed resources of large package providers. A meidum sized proxy alone with several plugins and video sites viewing enabled can increase your cpu, and that can use up the whole server; remember no hosting providers would love to give a server for your own for $1 or even 90% of server fee.

“Am I blind or you didn’t really advertise your hosting site in this post?” Like I said, I am not a hosting company and I dont advertise every time I can. Customers will come by via words of mouth and referrals from existing customers. Plus, I already have enough to pay off the existing servers customers are on. And like 90% of you proxy hosters would actually choose my hosting plans, and mostly leave after you see the prices.

By: Kaung | ChitChat247.com | KMKBlog.com

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