Thanks Greg, I've been using the paid proxies for scraping and the commenting. Could be why I'm flying through bandwidth. I had asked Proxybonaza if they have more options for bandwidth as far as proxies go. and only response was pretty much 1$ per 1gig or I could get something like 169 proxies at 100gigs of bandwidth Per month.
I'm about to do the 99$ per month one since I've had such great results using those proxies and scrapebox. Unless someone can recommend a cheaper option?
I really like proxybonanza overall, though I think their shared proxies might be getting a bit....pounded....by users right now based on some other posts here.
It sounds like mrtornado offers a really good proxy service (he's a member here, someone else on this thread mentions him and I've seen good reviews in the prox threads).
I've also been thinking about subscribing to proxygo's daily proxy list (he's the admin @ proxiecentral and has a thread in the proxies for sale forum here). Good reviews for his service as well.
Finally, I've seen a big improvement in the scraped proxies since SF added new sources to Scrapebox. I know s/he has gotten a lot of flak about the quality of the free proxy scraper, and has really worked on improving a feature that was just a bonus really in the early iterations. So before you change plans or get another provider you might want to give it one more go.
Make sure you're running latest version of SB, then try harvesting free proxies from ALL sources (make sure you pick that before harvesting) and use the Test Proxies button after harvesting. I'm getting a bunch more good proxies now. And with the IP test that SB does, you can be pretty sure they aren't leaking your IP.
Then I use harvested proxies to scrape the search engines, then either use my paid or a mix of paid and harvested for my posting. I think the harvesting of the search engines really chews up a lot of bandwidth (just an educated guess based on some testing I've done).
I think that would be a cheaper option for you and definitely worth a test. I'm still getting pretty good results with my PB proxies, but I would like to be able to rotate proxies periodically from the ones they assigned me so I don't burn out what I have.
peace,
gregstereo
p.s./edit - thanks again to sweetfunny for more great updates, and for making the proxy harvester even better. I know it took some blood, sweat and tears, but I was glad to see your post yesterday about being tired and going to sleep. I was beginning to wonder if you ever slept lol.
