Proxy and Arcade Sites

[mubina]

I have seen many people selling scripts/devoloped webpages of arcade/proxy sites, I just wanted to ask some questions from some of the members that already have these sites up and running.

1) How much bandwith do proxy and arcade sites use up monthly.
2) Is it allowed by adsense to put ads on the page with the acutal proxy redirector, im not sure where I heard this, but I did here it somewhere.
3) Is the proxy script free? If so where do I get it from?

Thanks and Any other information you guys can provide would be really useful, thanks everyone.

 

[mubina]

bump-a-doodle-doo

 

[lilgee]

Adsense dont pay much on arcade sites. Dont know about proxy site.

 

[Tippy]

As far as BW goes it all depends on how much traffic/usage your site gets, I would have to say that an arcade site would use more BW vs a Proxy site.

 

[Evan]

I run quite a few popular proxy sites and can use up 10~ gb a day!

You cannot run adsense on the proxifed pages, only the homepage (this isnt really a problem if you know good ad placement)

http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/
http://whitefyre.com/poxy/

 

[Something Vague]

I run a website that contains both a proxy, and arcade. It eats up a ton of bandwidth, be prepared. The proxy scripts are free, both cgi and php proxy. I highly reccomend cgiproxy.

 

[yeppers]

I run a proxy website, I use http://whitefyre.com/poxy/ for my proxies, and yes it's free.

Also if you do use PHProxy, make sure you install this hotlink destroyer I created a while back, this will save tonnes of bandwidth.

Despite what people have heard about Google allowing ads on the redirected/proxied page, this is NOT ALLOWED. You can only place the ads on non proxied pages, like the homepage.

Araced sites don't really use up too much bandwidth, the typcial game is around 300KB, usually people only play one or two games, so there's a decent unique visitor to bandwidth ratio. Not sure how much Google pays for the ads though, there aren't any free arcade scripts yet, but I am in fact working on one.

Best of luck mate,
Rhett.

 

[mubina]

THanks everyone for your advice, it has been super helpful, I am learning so much from these forums it is not even fathomable.

4 days ago I had no idea what php was
Yesterday I installed the anonymous email script on my website http://www.feeree.com
Today I still have no idea what php is, but at least I know how to make it work

Also, can you guys suggest good hosting for the proxy site? Are any of the free hosts out there going to allow it, I would like to run it for a month before I actually start paying for hosting.

 

[Barrucadu]

THanks everyone for your advice, it has been super helpful, I am learning so much from these forums it is not even fathomable.

4 days ago I had no idea what php was
Yesterday I installed the anonymous email script on my website http://www.feeree.com
Today I still have no idea what php is, but at least I know how to make it work

Also, can you guys suggest good hosting for the proxy site? Are any of the free hosts out there going to allow it, I would like to run it for a month before I actually start paying for hosting.

If you dont want to pay for it, you could always get a webserver and host it off your own computer.

 

[mubina]

Damnit, I didnt even know that was an option, Im currently in Pakistan on a 56k, I dont think it would be too feasible at the moment.

 

[yeppers]

Damnit, I didnt even know that was an option, Im currently in Pakistan on a 56k, I dont think it would be too feasible at the moment.

Yer hosting off that internet connection would be a bad option .

I really doubt that there are any free hosts out there that will allow proxy sites, actually, im almost positive that there isn't!

Your best option would be to pay for a VPS server, around $50 USD per month. Most cheap shared or reseller host do not allow you to host proxy sites anymore, as if you don't have a hotlink preventer installed they can use up HEAPS of bandwidth, cpu and memory. But with the hotlink preventer, it uses only a fraction of the resources.

All the best mubina,
Rhett.

 

[mubina]

Thanks for the info rhett, any advice on which vps server to use, that is if you have had nay good experience with any of them out there.

 

[Barrucadu]

Thanks for the info rhett, any advice on which vps server to use, that is if you have had nay good experience with any of them out there.

I have an idea for you:

1) start hosting it on your own server
2) put adsense, and a paypal donate link on the page
3) after raising a decent ammount of money, start looking for paid hosting.

edit: after seeing your internet speed - maybe not such a good idea, lol

 

[Camron]

cgi proxy is great, but be ready to be open to atleast 256MB ram just for the script and a few people using it.

Phpproxy is pretty ram and cpu harmless, but make sure to use some type of hotlink preventor otherwise they can leave thousands of gb's each day from you.

Trying to run both of these websites, a dedicated server would best fit your needs.

Thanks

 

[yeppers]

Thanks for the info rhett, any advice on which vps server to use, that is if you have had nay good experience with any of them out there.

I would reccommend using solarvps.com, they're areound $55/month for the deal im getting (around 256mb ram, 10gb of hdd space, i THINK) but they have great uptime and support.

Those specs on a VPS server seem to be fine for running proxies etc. Arcade sites only really use bandwidth, not ram or CPU, so no need to worry about that.

There are tonnes of other deals out there, maybe you want to check them out at: http://webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104

All the best,
Rhett.

 

[cb711]

If you dont want to pay for it, you could always get a webserver and host it off your own computer.

How do you do this?

 

[Barrucadu]

How do you do this?

Here is a small tutorial I wrote on another forum.

 

[cb711]

thanks Mikor