Hey, it’s my first post on this forum but I have been reading it for a while, I’m thinking about making a proxy but I have some thoughts and questions.
First off, I wanna start the proxy both for educational purpose, money making purpose and for the fun-factor in having one.
I’m thinking i’ll use the Glype script as its been recommended by many people and it was really easy to set up, works really well and looks really good.
My intital thought was to host this at home, that way I do not have to care about hosting limits, althought, I only have a megabit of upload at home, I could push about 120-130kB/s around the clock, and I don’t know if this is sufficient or not, IT IS 300GB of data, and in full duplex 600GB so it’s a lot more then some hosting companies are offering, but maybe the link is simply too slow for a reliable good proxy since if let’s say 10 people are using some picture/file heavy site the link will become really slow and unusable fast.
Thoughts on this?
Also, I enabled zlib compression in PHP 5 (which I plan to use) is this any different, better or worse then mod_deflate in apache? I currently set zlib level to 1 since I heard anything above that creates significantly higher CPU usage and minimal bandwidth savings.
On the hardware side I got a P4 2.0 ghz with 512mb ram running windows, is this enough?
Legal issues: biggest problem hosting this from home would be legal issues I guess, maybe someone who been in this business for a long time can shed some light on the situation, how many incidents with the authorities have you had? Am I even quilty of anything if someone would do something illegal through my proxy?
Ads: What advertising company should you aim for, ads on frontpage does this generate much? Or should you aim for those really annoying pop up ads that I seen some people have.
Happy for response, just brainstorming ideas here.
ps: What countries to block by default? How do I found the ip-range to these?
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