How does one become a proxy provider?

arc323 said:

You can make your own proxies from a Raspberry Pi with a 4g dongle or even from a cheap vps. Of course, the proxies from a cheap vps are going to be datacenter proxies. I bought a BST called Proxy Know, and it was really interesting to learn about how most proxy sellers aren't being honest. Basically proxies cost more than $1 to make so anyone selling $1 proxies is likely reselling to multiple users.

I was able to make proxies from various cheap vps (<$2 each) and also from my home router. I'm trying to make them with a Raspberry Pi but I'm waiting on the 4g dongle to arrive. You can actually stack Raspberry Pi devices together and make a bank of 4g proxies. The ebook also has instructions for selling proxies. They have a free version but I got the $200 version. It was well worth for me, as someone who uses a lot of proxies. If you're interested in learning about proxies the free version might be good for you.

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Meddie said:

As residential and mobile proxies are the future you can also use a SIM farm with a 4g connection, with the right coder you can build even a SMS platform, not just 4g proxies.

Something like this: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/2019-Ejoin-2G-3G-4G-Gsms_62074766783.html

P.S.: If you decide to do so, stay away from them (physically), the amount of radiation will be high I guess.

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Meddie said:

As residential and mobile proxies are the future you can also use a SIM farm with a 4g connection, with the right coder you can build even a SMS platform, not just 4g proxies.

Something like this: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/2019-Ejoin-2G-3G-4G-Gsms_62074766783.html

P.S.: If you decide to do so, stay away from them (physically), the amount of radiation will be high I guess.

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dotc0m said:

For residential proxies you have a "Botnet" like system where you host an application that shares a home users IP.

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dotc0m said:

Proxies come from datacenters, where large blocks of subnets are interconnected between various datacenters with routers and switches.

Essentially it is where ISPs get your IP from it comes out different because they route it to you with thier own network infrastructure and you get a unique residential "IP" leased by them.

Remember the internet is a bunch of datacenters and servers connected to each other.

So the root of a datacenter proxy is actually a piece of connection that interwebs the internet. You just get access too it

Thats why sometimes they are referred to as "Tunnels" its a connection between two networks.

So for Datacenter proxies you usually buy blocks of subnets which have around 250 IPs or so, and then you rent them out. Proxy companies do this across different datacenters and locations to diversify the ip range


For residential proxies you have a "Botnet" like system where you host an application that shares a home users IP.

And for mobile proxies you find a good data plan provider or open a business account and get bulk data and have whole bunch of 4G modems with sim cards in them usually hooked up to a raspberry or a main server which routes the 4G ip into a proxy.

All these proxy types can be and are often scraped from the web if they have open ports and are vulnerable.

Correct me if I am wrong but that is the general understanding that I have

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dotc0m said:

No to get into more depth, residential proxies are usually obtained through a program or service that is used in exchange for access to your IP connection. Some companies do this through legal means and acknowledge you, some other are more gray and possibly come from infected computers with botnet software.

An example would be this BST
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/packetstream-these-are-the-residential-proxies-you-are-looking-for.1101640/

it is a proxy service that has a program where you can host your own IP and gain credits or even get paid. Many residential IP sources share this business model and offer you access to software and give you digital credits and points in exchange for access. Or they just dig it real deep in the TOS and don't tell you.

That is the reason that there really isn't static IP proxies. they always disconnect and rotate. A host is usually on for a short period of time.

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arc323 said:

You can make your own proxies from a Raspberry Pi with a 4g dongle or even from a cheap vps. Of course, the proxies from a cheap vps are going to be datacenter proxies. I bought a BST called Proxy Know, and it was really interesting to learn about how most proxy sellers aren't being honest. Basically proxies cost more than $1 to make so anyone selling $1 proxies is likely reselling to multiple users.

I was able to make proxies from various cheap vps (<$2 each) and also from my home router. I'm trying to make them with a Raspberry Pi but I'm waiting on the 4g dongle to arrive. You can actually stack Raspberry Pi devices together and make a bank of 4g proxies. The ebook also has instructions for selling proxies. They have a free version but I got the $200 version. It was well worth for me, as someone who uses a lot of proxies. If you're interested in learning about proxies the free version might be good for you.

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arc323 said:

With the Raspberry Pi method it functions as a rotating 4g proxy. It's like a backconnect proxy. So you connect to one IP but your proxy will rotate like a mobile device. It's done using a 4g dongle.

For making normal proxies, you can only make 1 proxy for every IP you have. So it you have a VPS with 10 IPs, you can make 10 proxies. You can find cheap VPS for like $.99 cents but their IPs might be trash. You can get a $100 free credit from Digital Ocean and make proxies form their $5 VPS. Those IPs are not great but I'm using one for an Instagram account right now and only getting a few blocks here and there.

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turelink said:

Here are lots of guides to set up the proxy via raspberry-pi
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/how-to-create-a-own-proxy-with-raspberry-pi.1049470/
https://www.stupidproxy.com/how-to-make-residential-proxy-raspberry-pi-squid-proxy/

But for business, not just proxies itself

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