Kiloserve Proxy Hosting

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 trouble.
• Proxies are CPU and RAM intensive, i.e. they use lots of these. Web hosts running proxies and other types of websites on their servers will find that non-proxy websites are disadvantaged. Servers running proxies cannot be oversold in terms or RAM or CPU, otherwise downtime will follow

In others words, proxy hosting is not for all web hosts. The servers used must be powerful enough to handle the load and the web host must not oversell bandwidth, CPU or RAM.