Friday, April 16, 2010

What Is A Fast HTTP Proxy?

What makes a fast http proxy? Finding http proxies online is fairly easy to do. Spend a little time using any search engine and you’ll find plenty of http and other kinds of proxies to use. However, you quickly discover that most if not all proxies you find are not reliable. What makes a proxy server fast and is there anything you can do to find reliable proxies online?

The main reason why most proxy servers are not fast is because they are free. Free isn’t always bad but the problem with proxies is that free ones are abused. They are abused because many people try to use them at the same time. Proxies have limitations on just how many people and load they can handle at one time. If too many people start trying to use a http proxy, it quickly becomes slow and unresponsive.

To avoid this problem you have two possible solutions. The first is to always be on the lookout for new http proxy servers. Spend an hour or so each day hunting for fresh proxies. This can be a pain and is time consuming, but this is about the only way you can ensure you have fast and reliable proxies that are free. The other solution is to setup your own proxy but this does come with a small price tag.

If you get sick and tired of wasting time looking for proxies each day, then the other solution is to setup your own http proxy server. This is much easier than it sounds but it does come with a small price tag. Setting up your own http proxy will cost around $9 USD a month. What’s the advantage? Your own proxy server is super fast and very reliable. This is possible because you share it with no-one else and have exclusive access to the server. Using this kind of fast http proxy to surf the internet is almost as fast as using your own home computer.

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