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If you do any sort of blackhat or automation, you know you need proxies.
You need proxies for:


  • Increasing YouTube or social network profile views
  • Scraping keywords, search results or content
  • Checking out competitors ads and geotargeted offers
  • Staying truly anonymous online
  • Forum posting or blog commenting
I do a few of those things, and I needed proxies, lots and lots of proxies. At first I looked for proxies on free proxy sites, but I found them lacking. Most public proxy lists contain 90% or more dead proxies, and checking the lists by hand was ineffective and time-consuming. I tried private, paid proxy services and found that they gave me only a few dozen proxies that were difficult to access and use. So I wrote a few scripts to scrape both public and private sources, and before you know it, I had a list of hundreds of proxies that I could just plug into any program or script I was using.
My proxy service grew out of my own needs. I know for a fact that having this frequently updated proxy list has helped me make more money, and I have a hunch it will help some of you make more money too.

I'm proud to introduce the ProxyNexus proxy service. You can read more and order at:



We're scraping hundreds of semiprivate and private proxy lists so you don't have to. We're subscribing to multiple paid proxy services and scraping their lists for our customers.
Here you can view the live stats of how many fresh proxies are in the system right now. We're launching with 400 or so live proxies from around the world available every hour, and we will be adding many more proxy sources soon.

The price for the service right now is $50/month. This includes unlimited access to the entire list of hundreds of proxies, updated every hour on the hour. You can also save up to $250 by prepaying in advance- see the Order Page for details.

In summary: Get 400 or more fresh proxies every hour in an easy to use text file, for $50 a month.

Thanks for reading, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!
 


It varies, these proxies come from all over. Some are faster, some are slower. They won't last more than a few hours, but it really shouldn't matter, as you get a new list of fresh proxies every hour from my service.

I can say that we test them pretty aggressively- if a proxy doesn't respond within a few seconds (timeout is 5 right now), it's marked as dead and not added to the list. So, the slowest proxies are eliminated.

If you PM me I can give you a sample to try out.
 
What makes my list worth it is the quality of the proxies. Those who work with proxies/scraping know the value of quality proxies.

I'm familiar with xroxy.com- running the list on the front page through my proxy checker, all but three of the proxies on that list are dead. The three live proxies are not true anonymous proxies, but are all Planetlab nodes which 1.) Log all traffic 2.) Severely restrict/shape traffic, I don't think they even allow all POST requests.

In other words, there is not one usable proxy on that list, and I suspect the paid list is much the same. You get what you pay for.
If you want to pay $5 for a list of dead, useless, stale proxies, feel free to pay for xroxy or a similar public list.

If you want hundreds of quality fresh proxies every hour, sign up at ProxyNexus.net.
 
Ok, your shit is starting to sound good. I have a project coming up where your service would come very handy so I'll PM you when the time is right.

Would it be possible that when you test proxies, you could also check geo location? It's piece of cake with MaxMind - GeoLite Country | Open Source IP Address to Country Database for example. I'm sure many of us who target several countries would appreciate this and it would add value in your offer. So think about it :)

Boomstick,
Like machinecontrol said, quality is everything. I have personally built scripts that scrape hundreds of free proxy sites constantly but quality of those proxies are shit. 95% of them don't work at all, ever. I have now been using some private proxy lists that costs little less than machinecontrol's but those have their own issues. Like for example you can't really do anything where your proxy provider might get abuse emails because they will close your account and there goes your good & fast proxies.
 
machinecontrol said:
Get 400 or more fresh proxies every hour in an easy to use text file, for $50 a month.
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machinecontrol has provided me with proxies for a little while now. Here's the better points of his service in my opinion.

1. No obscure payment system, if you've bought proxies before you know it's a hassle as paypal and credit cards are no good to many providers.

2. Programmatic access - I quoted the txt file thing above to point out that, if you can hack, it's easy to set up a cron to get the fresh proxies every hour.

Set. And. Forget

3. Very few dead proxies ... sure there are some, it's in the nature of proxies go up and down . But there are enough live proxies in the hourly updates to never have any downtime.

MC's proxies have saved me many headaches, hours of productivity and provided my scripts with rock solid reliability.

Good stuff, highly recommended

Boomstick said:
Open Proxy List <- 800+ for $5 a month (or PM me and I'll send the list for $5)
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Time is money ... public lists like that are a waste of both
 
Thanks for the feedback and comments everyone. Answers to a couple of questions I've recieved via PM:

What type of proxies are these?
These are HTTP proxies, so any script/browser should work with them.

How fast are these proxies?
It obviously varies a great deal with each proxy, but in general we tend to be pretty aggressive with our testing. We currently check proxies with a 5 second timeout, so any slow proxies will be marked as dead and not added to the list.

What is the uptime for these proxies?
Again, it varies depending on the proxy. Some last minutes, some last days, and anywhere in between. However, you will be getting a fresh list of hundreds of working proxies every hour, so you will definitely have a lot of working proxies to choose from at any given time.
 
Sorry, I should have made that more clear. You get access to an hourly updated text file on the site, you can download it whenever you want.
 
Well I ordered this and so far at least 90% of the proxies are dead. I'm doing simple checking if Google.com loads when saving. For $50/month I'm expecting better quality but I'm willing to give this 1 month but if quality doesn't improve, I have to let this pass.
 
micfire said:
Well I ordered this and so far at least 90% of the proxies are dead. I'm doing simple checking if Google.com loads when saving. For $50/month I'm expecting better quality but I'm willing to give this 1 month but if quality doesn't improve, I have to let this pass.
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I dealt with this issue a long time ago, it's not necessarily a problem with MC's proxies as the proxy market in general .... unless you go through someone with their own personal bot-net (bad juju).

The solution is a long term one & involves a database. As you get and use each proxy, save the loadtime + a count of how many successful calls that proxy has made. At the end of the hour don't flush the good proxies, just delete the ones that never worked and add the new list.

Work out your own system to find out which are the best preforming proxies and save them to a 'good list'. After you have enough in the 'good list', your days of slow scraping are over. I've got several hundred proxies at the moment that are regularly online and pretty damn fast but I want more.

Here's the great thing about proxy lists. People forget about them in just a few days (max). After that, you've got a proxy that's been active for a while that's not floating around on proxy lists across the net.

Also, proxies can also be reused across all of your sites. Just make a simple api that returns a random, live proxy so that any script across your empire can have access to the list.

You've got to be patient when building up your warchest.
 
Yeah, great advice for all the n00bs trying to learn basic BH stuff. I have been using same kind of setup for a while and my "warchest" is getting actually kinda too big ;) I was just hoping to add good source to the machine so $50/month might be little too much for few working proxies but like I said, I'll give it a try and we'll see :)
 
Hey, micfire, there's something wrong with your proxy checking method, all proxies in the list are tested hourly. Test the proxies with a proxychecker like Charon, on average at any given time I check at least 60-70% of the proxies are working.
 
machinecontrol said:
Hey, micfire, there's something wrong with your proxy checking method, all proxies in the list are tested hourly. Test the proxies with a proxychecker like Charon, on average at any given time I check at least 60-70% of the proxies are working.
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Got your PM but decided to post here in case somebody is running with similar problems.

I'm testing proxies right now with simple Google query. That tells me straight away if the proxy works with Google and if it's banned or not. I don't want to use any proxy checkers because they don't really tell me if the proxy works with the websites I intend to use it for.

I'm using curl with 15 sec timeout. All testing is done from finnish server at the moment. I could try US server if it would work better that way? Maybe there's some access control with some of the proxies? 15 sec is the absolute maximum timeout I can deal with right now. I should improve my queue db to handle slower proxies better.
 
My script tests proxies hourly with 10 sec timeout, so that shouldn't be an issue, and I don't think there's any access control. Do you have the right curl options set:
Code: 
[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#0000bb]curl_setopt[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]([/COLOR][COLOR=#0000bb]$ch[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700], [/COLOR][COLOR=#0000bb]CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700], [/COLOR][COLOR=#0000bb]1[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]);
[/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#0000bb]curl_setopt[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]([/COLOR][COLOR=#0000bb]$ch[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700], [/COLOR][COLOR=#0000bb]CURLOPT_PROXY[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700], [/COLOR][COLOR=#dd0000]'proxy:port'[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]);
[/COLOR][/COLOR]
 
I can't say that 100% of these proxies will work with SSL, because obviously some proxies can be configured to reject SSL requests. However, this is not a limitation of the HTTP proxy protocol, and some will definitely work with SSL. I just randomly tested 5 live proxies on the list, and 4/5 loaded an HTTPS page flawlessly. The beauty of a large proxy list such as this one is that you can always find more than enough proxies to suit your needs. If one doesn't work, there will be plenty more that do.

If you don't believe me, you can check for yourself. We just started offering a free proxy list, which has 10 randomly selected proxies from our main list of 400+, updated every hour. The proxies on that list will obviously be slower/less relibable than the ones on the main list because everyone is using them, but you will find a few proxies to test.

micfire, I'm still confident that the issue is with the way you validate proxies and not my list. I have a possible idea why- if you're loading Google.com, it will frequently redirect to another google TLD for example google.co.uk based on the proxy's location. If you're testing by looking for a particular text that is on google.com, you may not find it on a Google in another language, and mark the proxy as dead when it is in fact alive. Also, if you don't have curl set to follow redirects, your tests will obviously fail.

If you like, you can PM me your proxy testing code and I can try it/take a look. I stand by the quality of my proxy service, and I take complaints very seriously.
 
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