Craigslist Proxy Server:

by Mishio Tsenaka - Elite-Proxy-Server.com

Let's talk about why having multiple IP's on the same Craigslist Proxy Server is practically useless (Sequential IP's/C-Classes) a.k.a The Big Craigslist Proxy Server Question: This is a big one because a lot of people keep requesting multiple IP's. And it's a little upsetting as well, because I think many of you have been misled into believing that this whole proxy thing is going to end all of your life's problems. Being able to get use of a second, third, or even a fourth IP address is quite an incredibly valuable thing. However, the IP addresses on your craigslist proxy server are NOT bullet-proof. These IP addresses are no different than the IP you already have on your own computer, and can be blocked and blacklisted just as easily. This next part is ultra important to understand about this whole proxy server/IP address thing:

I Cannot Stress this Enough: Bypassing Spam/IP filters is a NUMBERS GAME. And anyone telling you that it's not is flat out lying to you. I don't have statistics showing where each of the major websites have their IP/Spam filters set, but let's put ourselves in their shoes for a moment. If I'm the person hired to be responsible for keeping spam out of Craigslist (for example) I would think that 3 or 4 ads is more than enough free ads for one person to post in a given 24 hour period, and thus, I'm probably going to set my spam filter to block any IP that posts more than that. I may not do it the first time or even the second time the same IP address posts more than three or four ads (because I want to give people the benefit of the doubt) but eventually I'm going to have to put an end to this mischievous pattern. And since if this really were my job, I'd probably be pretty educated on all of this IP stuff, and I'd probably also keep myself quite well informed about craigslist proxy servers and such, and I'd probably also have a huge staff of people just as smart, if not smarter, and even more up to date on such matters. Does anyone reading this think that Craigslist (or any of the other big sites) are oblivious to the fact that a craigslist proxy server exists …especially since it's their job to know about such things ...to protect themselves and their empires?

I think that too many people are coming here thinking that this is some magic bullet (and I have my suspicions about where they got that idea). Let me say it again: This whole thing is a NUMBERS GAME. Craigslist (for example) thinks that 3 or 4 ads a day is more than enough for one person. So if you want to semi-consistently post 12 ads per day (for example) you have to "appear" to be at least three or four different people, on different computers, and preferably in different geographic locations. In order to accomplish this most effectively, you need to have three or four different IP addresses on different computers, in different cities.

Probably, the most basic way to do this would be to have a home in four different cities, with a different computer in each of them, and fly around to your different residences every day posting a few ads from each, but obviously that's incredibly impractical. However, we can pretty much accomplish this same effect using a private craigslist proxy server in different cities, each with totally unique IP addresses, and access each of them very easily with a few clicks of the mouse directly from our home web browser via the internet. This doesn't cost nearly as much as having multiple residences around the country, but at the same time, it's not a free lunch.

If you know how to set up a private craigslist proxy server for yourself (or are willing to learn) and if you also have the time and determination to find a few VPS hosting companies that will let you set up proxies on their servers, then the entire process becomes quite a bit cheaper, but still not a free lunch. For example, if you want 20 unique IP addresses, to do this right, you will have to find about 20 hosting companies (or a few that have servers in multiple cities) it will probably cost you about $200 per month in hosting fees (about $10 each per IP/VPS). To me, if you're really going to be posting twenty people worth of free ads (60-80 per day - 3 ads x 20 IP's or 4 ads x 20 IP's) I would hope that you would be making way more than enough money from those 60-80 or so ads per day (that's 1800-2400 per month btw) to be able to afford $200 in IP hosting fees (if not, what's the point posting so many ads?) Alternately you could just pay for the ads directly -do the math and see which is cheaper. For the moment, this country is still pretty much capitalist, so you have to weigh out your options (is paying directly for 1800-2400 ads per month cheaper than paying $200 per month for IP hosting?) I'll help you out a little here: $200 for 1800 ads is 11-cents per ad. And $200 for 2400 ads is 8-cents per ad. Can you find ads cheaper than $00.11 or $00.08 each? If so, there's your answer. And furthermore, and again, if each of your ads isn't profiting you way more than 11 cents each, what's the point of posting those ads? Why even worry about having a craigslist proxy?

Is there a shortcut for your craigslist proxy? Yes, there is a bit of a shortcut, but it's a very short lived shortcut. You can very easily and very cheaply put multiple IP addresses on the same VPS, and thus have multiple IP's without having to pay hosting fees for multiple VPS proxies. However, I highly, highly recommend that you don't waste your time doing this, and I'll now explain to you exactly why I feel that way. The engineers at Craigslist (for example) are not stupid. When they see, IP XXX.XXX.XXX.001, XXX.XXX.XXX.002, XXX.XXX.XXX.003, and XXX.XXX.XXX.004 all posting similar ads, for the same website, from the same city, on the same server, from the same host, on the same day, every day, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the ads are all being posted by the same person! Hosting companies are assigned IP addresses in giant SEQUENTIAL blocks. If you wait, and add more IP's onto the VPS over time, they will be slightly different, but the first three sections will still be identical. The only solution is to get multiple VPS proxy servers from different hosting companies, in different cities. And Yes, that does cost more, but does it cost more than paying for 2400 ads?

Practice What You Preach? If you will kindly stroll on over to my "We'll Set it Up for You" page, you will see that we do not host more than three (3) proxy servers for any one person, BECAUSE we only have servers in three (3) different cities, and thus, giving you more than one craigslist proxy server from the same city/host combination (in my opinion) would be stealing from you, because your IP address would be so similar, that they would be basically useless to you (they would be from the same C-class (giant block of sequential IP's) they would announce that they were from the same city and the same host, even the same lat. and long.) .

There are no real short cuts with a craigslist proxy. This service has its limitations just like any other thing in life. You get what you pay for, and quite frankly, our prices are really damn good. We charge a $100 "turn the vps into an elite craigslist proxy server for you" fee per proxy server (and thus, per very unique IP). If you can find a better deal than that without having to set up the proxies yourself, and without having to find the hosting yourself (and with only one IP per city/host) then listen very carefully to what I'm about to say....... stop reading my website right now and get over to their site immediately. And if it wouldn't be too much to ask; Please send me a link to their site, because I'll scrap mine and become an affiliate for them (I would love not to have to host these things. It's stressful worrying about my IP's. All I wanted to do was sell my damn instruction manual!). Oh yes, by the way, I almost forgot...

If you buy the instruction manual and just learn how to do this for yourself (learn to set up a your own personal elite craigslist proxy server) you really can solve most of the issues discussed here, because you will NOT be shackled to my three proxy limit, and it will be cheaper than my craigslist proxy server set up. If you want 20 really unique IP addresses, just rent hosting packages from twenty different hosting companies (or find the ones that have servers in multiple cities ...many do these days). Configure each one of them yourself, and you're in business. That is NOT sarcasm by the way. Setting up 20 craigslist proxy servers yourself may seem daunting right now, but I swear, by the time you set up your second or third one, you won't even need to use the instruction manual anymore (other than to copy the code from). It really is pretty damned simple once you actually do it. We even send you a link to a hosting forum where these hosting companies go to post special deals on their VPS's, so finding a good deal isn't as hard as it would be otherwise either (please note; finding 20 good hosting packages/companies with the specs we need isn't going to happen overnight, it takes some real digging around, but as I said, there is no free lunch here. If it's worth it, then it's worth it, just do the math).

At present I have no plans, nor desire to acquire servers in more than the three cities I already have them in (if you hadn't noticed, I'm not real thrilled about even having those three, but apparently I'm the only one with the testicular fortitude to try this crazy scheme of turning over my proxy servers to vandals such as yourselves). If it's not too much to ask, please stop requesting "Yo dude, I need 50 IP's by tomorrow, Cool?" For the foreseeable future (if you need more than three IP's) you're just going to half to buy my manual and do it yourself. Or you could always try out that other guy and his multiple sequential IP farce.

In the meantime I promise you this: I will work quite diligently trying to find a better solution for all you IP starved CL users. I understand your problem, and I understand your great desire for a solution to it, and trust me; if I can figure it out, I'll plaster it all over this site, and as much of the rest of the web as I can. Until then... consider learning how to do this for yourself. It's really quite gratifying. Its twenty measly bucks and it wouldn't hurt to know what you're doing even if you have me set them up for you. Consider this, if I had to shut this website down tomorrow, you'd know that there was a way to set up an elite craigslist proxy server, but you wouldn't have a clue how to do it. How frustrating would that be! And then you'd have to find and pay some freelance programmer to set one up for you ('cuz those guys are cheap, and never ever busy with their own stuff ...for those unfamiliar with the dry-arts, that last bit there was sarcasm) and thus, then be dependent on him/her for your livelihood. And have to pay him a heeeeeeeeeeell of a lot more than twenty bucks!

By the way, one last thing; I don't know everything there is to know about all this stuff. I keep myself pretty well informed and up to date about this whole craigslist proxy server  thing, but quite frankly, there are a hell of a lot of people out there that are a hell of a lot smarter than I am. Maybe there's a craigslist proxy server solution out there that I don't know about yet (if you find it, please *no sarcasm* let me know what it is). Please don't take my semi-educated opinions as gospel. Use my advice/service/manual until you find someone with better advice. That's probably the best way to approach most things in life anyway. As always; I hope this was informative, and seriously... twenty bucks?... you big CL posters make twenty bucks in the time it takes you to yawn about this page... take a second look at my manual. …thanx, MT