How do Proxy providers get servers?

mnunes532 said:

OVH and similar companies is the way to go. Digitalocean is more expensive since you can't have multiple ips.

You could get proxies for ~$0.40 on OVH with a single server with multiple ips.

OVH has 2 limits of ips:

* VPS can have up to 16 ips
* Dedicated servers can have up to 256 ips

On OVH, unlike other services, you pay per ip only once. It costs around $3 per ip. If you think on long term, it will cost you less than buying from sellers here on bhw.

Let's imagine a server costs $50/month and each ip is $3.

$50*12 = $600 per year for the server
$3 * 256 = $768 for ips

$600 + $768 = $1368 total cost of everything in the first year

$1368 / 256 = $5.34 per proxy per YEAR

$5.34 / 12 = ~$0.45 per proxy per month

Only disadvantages are that you can't change ips and you need to setup the proxy server and ips.

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SpinProxies said:

Thanks for the answer with the detailed cost breakdown.
But how do these providers deal with violation notices from their VPS. Once I was experimenting with proxy on DigitalOcean VPS and I forgot to delete the droplet. It was discovered by proxy scanners and the droplet was misused by someone for a playstation bot. I got a notice from DO on behalf of Sony Corporation the next day.
So how do the proxy providers deal with cases where their client may use the server for such violations.

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