cutting my expenses

Why are my two largest expenses per month proxies and vps...do proxies really warrant the same price as a vps? Why are they so expensive when all it does is forward an http request and return the response. Not like a full blown operating system or anything.

I found 100 private shared proxies for $35/month...before that I was paying $24/month for 30.

My vps is $28/month for 2gb unmetered.

I pay around $10/month in captcha solving. I've started to use CaptchaSniper a lot more.

For hosting I pay about $200/year for fast, reliable shared cloud hosting. ~ $17/month
Plus about $9/year in domains...at around 50 domains. ~ $37/month

That's a total monthly cost of about $100/month.

Now I bring about $90/month on paid directory listings
And about $20/month on adsense.

That's a profit of $10/month.

So when a CPA looks at the revenue - he says time to change to something more profitable

i've only been doing this about 2 months...I'm still giving it a bit more time before I start something else.

Shared proxies are not going to be as good as private proxies (more likely to get banned). If you doing backlinking a lot of your backlinks will get rejected (or removed) with poor quality proxies (since the IP may get blacklisted). On the other hand if you get a lot more proxies you can afford to get backlinks rejected (removed backlinks are worst in my opinion than rejected) so basically you choose.

200 for hosting is kinda high

bulent said:

200 for hosting is kinda high

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Yeah. $200 is on the high side.

christoss1959 said:

Shared proxies are not going to be as good as private proxies (more likely to get banned). If you doing backlinking a lot of your backlinks will get rejected (or removed) with poor quality proxies (since the IP may get blacklisted). On the other hand if you get a lot more proxies you can afford to get backlinks rejected (removed backlinks are worst in my opinion than rejected) so basically you choose.

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Is there a tool online that I can use to see if my proxies are on blacklists or not?

...and I know $200 is high for hosting, but it's better quality than the usual shared hosting you get so I'm ok with it.

You get a dedicated ip right?

utuxia said:

Is there a tool online that I can use to see if my proxies are on blacklists or not?

...and I know $200 is high for hosting, but it's better quality than the usual shared hosting you get so I'm ok with it.

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ibmethatswhoib said:

You get a dedicated ip right?

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I'm using a list of 100 proxies. I just want to check them against blacklist.

If you're asking about my hosting, no it is shared cloud hosting w/ media temple.