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Ask HN: Could you suggest how to market a proxy server?
I'm working on a side project, I've set a proxy server and I'm trying to find the best way to generate profit from it. Subscriptio via paypal (not really sure about this) , find an exclusive Sponsor for advertising , sell part of the service as CDN (or Cache) or just sell the software? any feedback on the viability? would you pay to use it?
- jm4 17y agoWho would use the proxy server and why?
- Concours 17y agothe target audience is the average internet user , and peoples in countries with Firewalls and censorship, and probably people that have concern about their Privacy. If you leave in china , iran , myamar...you obviously need one, if you leave in other western countries, you may need one for facebook, you tube , twitter, and to stay under the google radar
- gexla 17y agoI don't think it would be worth the effort to try monetizing. These things are a dime a dozen and they get blacklisted quickly. They can also be expensive to run because of the bandwidth usage. Also, some hosting providers don't allow proxies. My biggest problem with them is that I wouldn't want my server IP address showing up as accessing pedo sites or other types of illegal sites because of the users. Even worse is that some proxy server software caches sites by default (and can even get spidered.) Good luck, but I think your efforts would best be spent elsewhere.
- Concours 17y agothanks , you might be rigth on that, well I don't really need to worry about the bandwidth as it's hosted on GAE, the idea was to have a 0 effort side project set up