What Does an Elite Proxy Server Actually Do?

by Mishio Tsenaka - Elite-Proxy-Server.com

The word "Proxy" basically just means a "Stand-in" or "Substitute". And thus, a proxy "server" is just a stand-in for your "real" computer. It pretends to be your computer, but it's actually in a totally different city, and has a totally different IP Address. It may help to think of it like this: For every single thing that you want to do online; instead of doing it from your own computer, you do it from your friend's computer in another city. Except instead of your "friend" being a person, it's actually a computer server with its own IP Address that ONLY YOU have access to! .....pretty cool ay?

Your computer/internet connection has a unique number attached to it called an IP Address. Whenever you go to any website or send an email from your computer, your computer first sends out what we can think of as an introduction packet. Have you ever seen one of those movies where the big boss man says to his secretary (for example), "Hey Sarah, get Frank Johnson on the phone for me". The secretary then calls Frank's office and says, "Hi, this is Sarah from so-and-so company, my boss would like to speak with Frank".

This is basically the same thing that happens when you go to any website. Your computer calls ahead and says, "Hi this is IP Address 123.123.123.123 calling, my boss would like to view your website, can we please have permission to do so". Most of the time the answer is "Yes" and it's a very simple transition and you don't even notice that it's happening. All you realize is that you typed in a website address or clicked on a link to a website and the website automagically appeared on your screen.

The other thing that almost every website does (certainly the well-known ones) is make a note of your visit: what pages you looked at, what links you clicked on, how long you spent on each page, etc... For example, IP Address 123.123.123.123 visited our website at 7:36 am on Wednesday August 14th. He stayed on the first page for 49 seconds and posted a comment on an article there. And then he clicked on a link that took him to page 3 of our website and stayed on that page for 13 seconds and then clicked on another link that sent him to a different website.

Now they have a record of your visit, and anything you did while you were there. The next time you go to that website they will know from their records that you have been there before and what you did. So lets say for example that you've self-published a book and it's up for sale on Amazon.com. You know that having a lot of good reviews for your book will likely increase its sales, so you invite a bunch of your friends over to your house and ask them each to go to Amazon and post a review for your book.

Amazon's IP tracking software sees that at 6:07 pm, IP Address 123.123.123.123 posted a review for ISBN 123456789, and then again at 6:17 pm the same IP Address posted another review for the same book, and then again at 6:31 pm the same IP Address posted yet another review for the same book.

Amazon doesn't like that. Something seems fishy because that's not how a "natural" customer book review "normally" takes place. Normally the time in-between reviews is longer for "naturally" occurring reviews, and normally the reviews come randomly from all parts of the country or world. It seems fishy then to have more than one or two reviews all coming from the exact same computer. So naturally, Amazon assumes that someone is trying to "artificially" pile up reviews for your book (which Amazon does not allow). So what does Amazon do? Amazon says, okay we will not allow IP Address 123.123.123.123 to post any more reviews, and if they see fishy looking activity from that IP Address again they will probably go as far as deleting all the reviews that have been posted from that same IP Address, and even further they may even decide to delete your book from their website and thus no sales of your book.

As another example, let’s say you use a free classified ads website like Craigslist. They track your IP address just like Amazon does, and if you post too many ads, they feel that you're taking advantage of their service, and again, they block your IP Address from posting any more ads.

So far I've given you two quick examples of individual websites keeping track of what you're doing, but how creepy would it be to discover that someone was tracking and recording all your online activity, including every single webpage you've ever been on. Well it's true; your Internet Service Provider (ISP) tracks and records every single thing you do online. When you type in a website address, click a link, or send an email, basically what you are really doing is sending a request to your ISP. You are saying to your ISP, "Hi, this is IP Address 123.123.123.123, I'd like to go to the website http://My-Secret-Private-Stuff.com, can you please connect me. The ISP connects you and records your request, including how long you were there, what you did there, and potentially all sorts of other things that I don't even know about. Pretty creepy isn't it?

The final example I'm going to give you has nothing to do with tracking your IP Address, it has to do with someone blocking you from viewing certain websites (a.k.a., they decide what websites they will ALLOW you to visit). This is often done by Employers, Schools, or Governments. For example if a school or employer thinks that students/employees are wasting time "playing around" on a website like MySpace.com for example, they set up a block that won't allow anyone to connect to that website. Or let’s say you live in North Korea and that government decides that it will not ALLOW any of its citizens to visit any websites that may be critical of the North Korean government. They can block any internet traffic coming from their country from going to those websites they decide they don't want you seeing (news websites for example).

And so, to summarize:

1- Any website can use your IP Address to block you from using their website or from doing certain things on their website (like posting ads or reviews or comments). And they can (and very often do) also use your IP Address to track and record everything you do on their website.

2- Your ISP tracks and records every single webpage that you go to online.

3- Your school, employer, or government can block you from using any website they don't want you to see.

Now if any (or all) of those things are a problem for you, keep reading because having Your Very Own Personal VPS Elite Proxy Server can completely defeat all of those problems for you.