Hello,
Being a proxy provider that offers their own product stack across lines like Datacenter, ISP and Residential bandwidth is very difficult and capital intensive if you are starting from scratch.
The complexity of each product is in the order mentioned above with datacenter proxies being by far the easiest and cheapest product-stack to get started while setting up ISP infrastructure yourself will likely atleast have a base cost of $5,000 a month just in bandwidth and circuit bills while creating your own peer residential network will likely run into hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, if you are doing things ethically and legally -
which you should! These costs can be further escalated by the complexitity of your configuration based on endless variables i.e how many ASNs do you want? Do you want your own ASN? How many locations do you offer? and so on.
Along with all these costs you also need a breadth of knowledge about industry specific parts of the business like hosting, sysadmin, software and networking as well as the general things required by any business like HR skills, basic accounting and so on.
That being said, it isn't impossible and there are a lot of companies which generate substantial business while purchasing services from vertically integrated providers like ourselves to reduce complexity and start-up running costs. We provide these kind of services to numerous other operators and they can be as simple as offering them fully ready proxies to resell or infrastructure services like residential hosting on one of our ISP circuits.
We are also launching a reseller API within the next three months which will allow other businesses to resell all our products including Datacenter, ISP and Residential without any start-up costs and minimal integration. The API will allow reselling of residential bandwidth, Static ISP proxies in USA, UK, DE and FR as well as datacenter proxies plus the features below:
- HTTP / SOCKS5
- User / Password Change
- Logging / Observability
- Plan Edits / Add Proxies
- Multi-Sub User Management
- Restrict Sub Users to Specific Services
This and other similar solutions are likely a great place to start for anyone wanting to start up a business in the industry and grow from there. It isn't easy but it is a great industry to work in and if you do give it a go my advice would be to work hard, read about networking principles like BGP and stay scrappy!
If you're interesting in our reselling API you can go ahead and register interest at
[email protected] and we'll let you know once it is ready for launch.
Cheers,
Tim
Founder at Ping Proxies
