Entries from October 2007
October 26th, 2007 · 9 Comments
Hotlinking in the proxy business happens when someone goes directly to a website without going through your web proxy’s home page. Hotlinking harms you and your proxy in two ways:
People linking directly to images and/or videos are using/stealing your bandwidth
You are losing advertising revenue since people go directly to the webpage without coming […]
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Tags: hotlink protection
October 10th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Today I wrote a post on namepros forum which I though is worth posting here. I have changed the structure and the text a bit to match the Kiloserve blog but it’s substance is the same. I will be expanding on the important ideas below, providing information on how go about with each step e.g. […]
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Tags: starting proxies
October 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Not many web hosts allow proxy hosting. Estimates say that only about 2% do. The main reasons for this is:
Proxies use a lot of bandwidth so if a web host oversells his bandwidth (a usual practice amongst web hosts) thinking that not all his customers will use the traffic they’ve bought, they are in […]
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Tags: Proxy Hosting