Best Instagram bot settings?

I'm farely new to using bots, I've was using Instaget 1.1 and now use Instaget 2.0. I only do LIKES and after reading some of the threads in here I'm not sure if that's best. I just don't like showing following in the thousands on my account. I only use the bot on 1 instagram account and I'm afraid of getting it banned so I only liked 54 pics an hour max at 30-90 sec delay. I would like about 900-1000 pics a day. I currently can't use Instaget because I'm blocked from liking pics on the clients like Pictacularco. Someone told me the like block lasts about a week before you can like on those sites again. My account is not blocked on my phone or with instagramcom. I'm only having problems using online clients and with the Instaget bot. Is getting like blocked from clients a common issues with bots?

What is the best way to run the bot without running into like blocks? I've read about using proxies and I'm not really to sure what those are. Is using proxies the way to go? I want to figure out the best way to run the bot.

I just want to get a good grasp of this, but it seems that strategies seem to change frequently. I will fill you guys in if I come up with some answers on my own.

I use 18 clients and I don't use: webstagram, statigram, luxogram, gramsby, pingram, 5thvillage, phlipster, mactopicsand and igertools. I've been using Instaget for a couple months 24hrs a day with maybe 5 days off and I have 2100 followers and I only follow 8. Thanks!

Hmm, never ran into any issues with banning because of like bots. I once got banned from all features for a week and it disabled captchas on my account forever.
I currently can run my follow bots that follow 2-4 users per second and I have been running this for 11 months now, and I am yet to be banned.
Try making a new account for testing. But be careful and wait about a week before botting as instagram likes to ban new accounts that run bots.