Traffic to your proxy website from certain countries can overload the hosting server. Other times, certain countries simply do not generate enough revenue or ad clicks. Others have a particularly high rate of fraud. There may even be other reasons, depending on the situation. Blocking countries from accessing a proxy site is an issue that often comes up in the business. The most common seem to be China and Iran followed by Afghanistan. There are some who prefer not to add these restrictions, while others feel it is necessary. Continue reading “Block Countries From Your Proxy Site” »

Some Glype sites are configured to store cached pages, cookies and logs. If you have any of those 3 features enabled, it is a good idea to change the location of your Glype temporary directory to prevent against possible hacking. To do this, edit your includes/settings.php file and find this line: Continue reading “Change tmp Directory in Glype for Security” »

If you are comfortable modifying code, here is a quick cut-and-paste code tweak for PHProxy which logs the sites your users visit. This can come in handy to track misuse and block users which is important for keeping your script under control. It is usually a good idea to backup your index.php file before making any changes to it. Continue reading “How To Log PHPRoxy Users” »

When someone hotlinks your proxy pages, it can eat precious bandwidth which costs money. This occurs when a user browses to a page via your web proxy, then copies the proxied URL and pastes it on a web page or forum. Continue reading “Prevent Hotlinking From Your Proxy Website and Save Bandwidth” »

If you are a proxy webmaster looking to increase traffic to your site, submit it for free today. The only requirement is that you link back to us. Head on Continue reading “Webmasters Submit Your Proxy Site for Free” »

This is a brief description of 4 different proxy scripts that are all written in PHP. We will skip over CGI proxies. This is not intended for webmasters, but more as Continue reading “Different Types of Web-Based Proxies” »