Need to build a private residential proxy network

Unfortunately, my last thread was moved to the wrong subforum and I can neither reply there nor send a PM to the moderator due to account privileges. Please keep the thread in this forum, as I'm looking for general advice, not exclusively suppliers from this community. Thank you.

Hi,

I'm having a bit of a special use-case for which I need private residential proxies ... that nobody else uses - only the human end user and me.

Since there is no provider offering that, need to build my own residential proxy network.

What I thought of is offering a free VPN client where - in exchange for free service - the external user IP is made accessible to me, in a non-obtrusive and compliant way.

I wanted to start this thread to ask for advice/ideas as well as for providers (please, spam me) who can help me to set this up.


What I need:

• roughly 100 IPs / exitnodes in Germany available at least for a few minutes each per day
• All residential, mobile or landline
• Roughly 1 GB traffic / day (combined all nodes, so only about 10 MB per user)

Asking for advice in these categories:

• Are there any existing VPN clients like that that could be used for my needs or existing VPN providers willing to develop sth like that - the idea is probably not new.
• Apart from the VPN functionality, are there any good tools to build out the "proxy part"?
• How do I market a VPN ... what is a normal CPI for an active user (say active 3 days after install) in Germany... around 5€ maybe?
• Any advice regarding handling legal obstacles, law firms who have dealt with similar, etc

Interested in advice, links to suppliers etc.

Thank you!

m-n said:

What I need:

• roughly 100 IPs / exitnodes in Germany available at least for a few minutes each per day
• All residential, mobile or landline
• Roughly 1 GB traffic / day (combined all nodes, so only about 10 MB per user)

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Basically what other real residential proxy provider does. Have you tried contacting Luminati or Oxylabs? They offer geo-targeting to city level and also ASN targeting (so you can choose Vodafone IPs, O2 IPs, T-Mobile, etc).

m-n said:

Asking for advice in these categories:

• Are there any existing VPN clients like that that could be used for my needs or existing VPN providers willing to develop sth like that - the idea is probably not new.

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I think you can configure OpenVPN for the client to act as a host (not sure, you have to check this).

But even so, it will act as a VPN host, whereas you need a proxy host. You have to do your homework on this thing.

m-n said:

Asking for advice in these categories:

• Apart from the VPN functionality, are there any good tools to build out the "proxy part"?

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Check on Github.

A quick search and I end up with this: https://github.com/madeye/proxydroid

m-n said:

• How do I market a VPN ... what is a normal CPI for an active user (say active 3 days after install) in Germany... around 5€ maybe?

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You have to test this. Nobody will know in advance.

m-n said:

• Any advice regarding handling legal obstacles, law firms who have dealt with similar, etc

Interested in advice, links to suppliers etc.

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Yes, don't do it. And expect scrutiny. A lot of scrutiny especially if you target Germany.

A VPN is a privacy tool, so using it as a proxy server might not something your users like.

Instead, you can develop a game, an utility app, any other app that you like, that is not related to privacy and have an SDK install on it that will route traffic through it.

Thanks for that!

Any further ideas? It doesn't have to be a VPN client.


How would you promote such a software package - AdWords/Facebook?

How likely it is this will be removed by the operating system through some heuristic filter?

Are there any existing solutions or providers specialized on that?


Thank you again, I value your insights and your experience!

Chris.Roark said:

I think you can configure OpenVPN for the client to act as a host (not sure, you have to check this).

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Let me chip in something from here, don't go the OpenVPN way, most site can easy detect if you are using OpenVPN which will raise a flag on your account

You can try tunnel your traffic with ssh this allows you to create socks for easy connection

m-n said:

Thanks for that!

Any further ideas? It doesn't have to be a VPN client.


How would you promote such a software package - AdWords/Facebook?

How likely it is this will be removed by the operating system through some heuristic filter?

Are there any existing solutions or providers specialized on that?


Thank you again, I value your insights and your experience!

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You may not even need to do facebook ads, just look for a number of forum in your target location, you would be surprised at the number of people that need your service

Can anyone recommend software for building my own small residential IP network? Open source tools, commercial ones ... ?

You could start your own residential ISP and access your users' IPs that way, but you might get some push-back from the tough competition.

That's overkill and a tightly regulated market, I think. I think it's easier to build a free application and just add proxy functionality to that. Is there something like this existing?

@softliner - new members can not sell on bhw sorry

While you can build your own residential proxy, you need to protect it from being detected by proxy detection service such as IP2Proxy in order to access many streaming services.