derregenrennt
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- Aug 7, 2018
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Inspired by a recent discussion on this forum I am looking to build a 4g mobile proxy farm. Primarily, I am doing this for my own botting/scraping purposes but I figured if I am doing this anyway I can look to sell these as well.
Where I am at:
I have decided that for my setup I am going to use following to start:
Next Steps:
My immediate to-do list is as follows:
I am just getting into this so there are probably a couple of things that I am not thinking of currently so if anybody has experience in this field that they are willing to share, I would welcome it. Sales is the biggest question mark for me currently so if anyone has any advice or pointers I would especially appreciate that.
Special thanks to @lucky.sparks and @Bers666 , they were willing to share their knowledge on this forum and made hardware selection rather easy.
Where I am at:
I have decided that for my setup I am going to use following to start:
- Proxysmart
- I have seen other services use this software and it seems like an affordable and reliable solution to manage the proxies
- Huawei E3372/ZTE MF79U Dongle
- I already had some of these and ordered a couple of new ones and the connection speed is alright (around 20-25 Mbit/s).
- MINIS FORUM Mini PC U820
- Probably overkill but I also have some of these laying around. Should be able to handle a good amount of dongles.
- Orico 20 Port Industrial USB Hub
- Ordered this as it was recommended to me.
- German Vodafone sim cards
- I got 10 of these at a competitive price. Might add o2 as a carrier if there is demand.
Next Steps:
My immediate to-do list is as follows:
- Build backend and connect to proxysmart api
- Integrate auth, payment, dashboard, api, api-documentation on the website. I'm probably forgetting something but those are my main focus for now.
- Validate Sales
- Before I scale or build intricate infrastructure I want to see if these proxies sell well at all. I've only found around 6 other sellers of dedicated german proxies and they all seem to be low on stock or even out of stock. I am not sure if this is a good or a bad sign. There are a lot of providers who sell their proxies by traffic. I assume this is because a lot of them are legacy resellers and back in the old days selling by connection wasn't viable. If anyone knows why do so many proxy providers only sell by traffic and not via dedicated connection?
- I am also taking some time to identify possible sales channels. For now I'm thinking forums, discords and telegrams in relevant niches. I also have 3 people in my network that are doing seo and e-commerce automation. Maybe they have demand for proxies.
- I have 2 landlines at my office. One is fast but horribly unreliable the other is slow but super stable. Since both are not really viable for my purposes I am left with two options.
- Setting up a 5G network in my office to forward the proxies as I get around 300 Mbit/s (will need to do additional tests when the weather is bad as that may impact speeds significantly). I was planning on doing this anyway for the office so there isn't too much additional overhead.
- Forwarding the proxies via the individual dongles. I will probably try this but I am not to confident about the approach as the speeds are not.
I am just getting into this so there are probably a couple of things that I am not thinking of currently so if anybody has experience in this field that they are willing to share, I would welcome it. Sales is the biggest question mark for me currently so if anyone has any advice or pointers I would especially appreciate that.
Special thanks to @lucky.sparks and @Bers666 , they were willing to share their knowledge on this forum and made hardware selection rather easy.
