Technically, any number of proxies is enough.
It depends on
A: what you'll be doing and
B: the number of threads you use
So, what do you plan on doing with those 5 proxies? Scraping or commenting?
After you answer, I'll make a suggestion on thread count.
Thanks for answering crazy!
I am planning to use 1 devoted to TT and traffic analysis, I'll use public proxies for scraping but the rest of the 5 I'll use for comment blasting. I dunno how many threads at a time.
10 at $20-$30 per month is alot for me when I'm not making any cash so I may need to start out slow.
<--- SB newb
No problem at all.
Well, when I put together my lists, I comment on the harvested URLs using 10 proxies and 50 connections (to simulate what most of my customers are able to afford in terms of proxies and bandwidth).
So, I'd say to be safe, try out your 5 proxies with 25 connections. If it goes off without a hitch, slowly increase your number of connections by increments of 5.
I got 4 shared proxies (So I just used 14 connections in SB) from Mazgalici on fiverr and they almost kept up with 100 public proxies (40 connections). So, a bit slower, but the success rate was higher too.
For posting, 5 is enough.
For scraping, just use public proxies. There are the ones built in, plus lists on here you can test. I try to stay over 75, and sometimes have over 200 that are working.