Thread: What are Proxies?

What are Proxies?

In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) that services the requests of its clients by forwarding requests to other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource, available from a different server. The proxy server provides the resource by connecting to the specified server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client's request or the server's response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server. In this case, it would 'cache' the first request to the remote server, so it could save the information for later, and make everything as fast as possible.


Many types of proxies. Most popular are web and IP proxies

What is a Proxy? - I wrote this article a fair while ago, shouldn't be too outdated.

I just got interested for this proxy bussines. On sticky topics you covered all neded very nice and I think I understanded all... However I have few question
Lets say I want to see how things are going, can I start proxy site with lets say 50$ proxy hosting, just to see how things are going? I see you are looking for specific country traffic. What about European traffic?
Am I responsible if someone do some damage to some site over my proxy?
How hard is to hit 1000 uv daily?