What is a proxy server?
A proxy server is a kind of buffer between your computer and the Internet
resources you are accessing. The data you request come to the proxy first,
and only then it transmits the data to you.
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What is an anonymous proxy server?
Anonymous proxy servers hide your IP address and thereby prevent
unauthorized access to your computer through the Internet. They do not
provide anyone with your IP address and effectively hide any information
about you and your reading interests. Besides that, they don’t even let
anyone know that you are surfing through a proxy server. Anonymous proxy
servers can be used for all kinds of Web-services, such as Web-Mail (MSN
Hot Mail, Yahoo mail), web-chat rooms, FTP archives, etc.
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Why do I need to use proxy servers?
1. Transfer speed improvement. Proxy servers accumulate and
save files that are most often requested by thousands of Internet users
in a special database, called “cache”. Therefore, proxy servers are able
to increase the speed of your connection to the Internet. The cache of
a proxy server may already contain information you need by the time of
your request, making it possible for the proxy to deliver it immediately.
2. Security and privacy. Anonymous proxy servers that hide your IP
address thereby saving you from vulnerabilities concerned with it.
3. Sometimes you may encounter problems while accessing to web server
when server administrator restricted access from your IP or even from
wide IP range (for example restricting access from certain countries or
geographical regions). So you try to access those pages using an anonymous
proxy server.
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What is a public proxy server?
It is a proxy server which is free and open for everybody on the Internet.
Unfortunately most of them are not anonymous.
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What is a pay proxy server?
Anonymizer - a pay proxy server with plenty
of features. Effective for personal use, when your Internet activities
are not involved in very active surfing, web site development, mass form
submitting, etc. In short, Anonymizer is the best solution for most
of Internet users. Ultimate protection of privacy - nobody can find out
where you are engaged in surfing. Blocks all methods of tracking. URL
Encryption protects you from your own ISP. Web Based - does not require
any program installation or a configuration on your computer.
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What is a free proxy checker?
Free service trying to provide daily updated list of public HTTP proxy
servers. Usually provide small list of proxies with low percent of functioning
servers due to hosting restrictions on CPU time (they simply can't allow
themselves to check many proxies every second especially in parallel).
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