I’m Worried About this Being Too Complex?

This website (ie, my 10 minute tutorial) has a conversion rate of just a hair over 10%. What that means is that 10% of visitors that stay on this site for more than 10 seconds, end up buying my elite proxy tutorial and setting up their own personal elite proxy server with it.

Now if you know anything about internet sales, you already know that most internet marketers are happy to get a 1% conversion rate. The general rule is; if you can get a 1% conversion rate, then you’re doing something right and you should keep doing it. So at more than 10X that, you can imagine I’m feeling pretty good. If you then go and take a peek at my Alexa Rank (currently 353,401) you can do the math for yourself and see that I’m certainly not hurting for business.

Having said all that however, this site didn’t get this successful by settling for what everyone else thinks is good. So although I certainly can’t complain about a 10% conversion rate on that many visitors; I think we can do better. And the way I think we can do that is by directly addressing what I believe to be the biggest reason someone might have for not buying the tutorial: People have a hard time believing that setting up their own personal proxy server is really this easy.

No one seems to have a problem understanding that it’s undetectable (probably because they already know what an elite proxy server is before they even come to this site) but for some reason they just can’t grasp that something so seemingly complex could actually be made as simple as pasting 5 short command lines into an SSH client. I guess that’s my fault though, because, in an effort to satisfy google, I’ve obviously had to clutter up my site with tons upon tons of google attracting content. So on this page I’m going to try to explain exactly how I’ve managed to take something that’s normally quite complex, and convert it into something so easy a ten year old could do it.

See Also: How to Hide IP Address which is a really quick overview of how this whole thing works in a step by step format (also linked up on the header as “How it Works”).

All we’re really doing here is renting a really really cheap remote server, and then loading an elite proxy script onto it

(elite is a not a word I invented btw, it’s the actual term for a special type of anonymous proxy script that is set up in such a way as to also make it completely undetectable). Elite proxy scripts have actually been around for a long time, but very few people know about them (mainly I would guess, because everyone thinks they’re so complicated to set up). Which I have to admit, if you have to write the scripting yourself, then I guess it is sort of complicated. But what I’ve done is put together a process by which you don’t have to do ANY of the scripting yourself.

Before I put this tutorial together, my whole business was setting up proxy servers for people (businesses). Back then I used to charge more than $200 to set up one proxy server. So this tutorial didn’t come about as a way for me to help you set up a proxy server for yourself. This process was created to make my own job easier for me to do. I was setting up proxy servers all day long, and quite frankly, it was tedious as hell, and boring as hell. As a result I was constantly tinkering with my setup trying to make it easier and faster to do. Over time I managed to get it down to a system that only took me about 20 minutes or so to set up one proxy server.

At that time my daughter and I were the only employees, but we were getting so busy, we really needed to hire another person. The problem though, is that programmers are expensive, so we set to work putting together a step by step written guide (of exactly how to do it) that we could just give to a non-programmer and have him/her be able to set up a proxy server by himself, and thus we wouldn’t have to pay so much to get another employee. Our thinking was that he/she could at least get the bulk of the setup done, and then it would only take one of us a few extra minutes to check his/her work. Instead of trying to teach the new employee how to write the actual scripts, we pre-wrote the scripts, and then just had him copy & paste in the pre-written scripts (okay I’m gonna stop saying “him/her”; it was a “him”, it was my daughters (now) husband).

That worked out so well, we started using the pre-written scripts ourselves (saving us another 5 or 10 minutes each per setup). It was around this time that my daughter had the brilliant idea to turn our written employee guide into an ebook tutorial, and sell it to all the people out there using slow sketchy public proxies. We set up this website, polished up the guide, and added instructions for getting a cheap remote server. That’s where we were about two months ago (and I already mentioned our conversion rate, and Alexa Rank, so you already know that obviously worked out pretty well).

The final step however didn’t come ’til a few months ago. This wasn’t a 10 minute tutorial yet, it was still a 20 or 30 minute tutorial. The breakthough came about as a result of a problem in the remote Virtual Private Server (VPS) industry. Back then half the work to setup a proxy server was done using the VPS’s own control panel. People would just copy and paste in our proxy scripts in the VPS’s file manager.

Back then, the control panel almost every vps hosting company used was the HyperVM control panel, and as such, our tutorial was designed to use HyperVM control panel. The other half of the work was done (as it still is) using a free SSH client (PuTTy). Well as it turned out, the company that owned HyperVM had some problems and a ton of vps hosts stopped using HyperVM all at once. That was obviously a big problem for us because it meant that in order for our tutorial to work, the customer had to find a host that was still using HyperVM, which obviously meant that there were a lot less hosts to choose from. [Note: the problem with HyperVM itself didn't effect what we needed it for in the slightest, but the fact that a bunch of hosts stopped using it certainly did].

The solution was actually quite a simple one, one that we had actually already been working on: Get rid of the need to use any control panel at all (ie, use PuTTy for the whole setup). But what we had failed to foresee, was how much faster implementing that change would make the whole set up. I used to think, “what can be faster than having customers copy and paste in the proxy scripts?” Well I’ll tell you what’s faster: Pasting in a command line that does it for you!

So that’s exactly what we did. Instead of having the customer download our scripts, open them up, copy them, and then paste them into a control panel’s file manager; we just uploaded the scripts to our own server. So now all the customer has to do is type in a command line and the vps goes and gets the script from our server for him. That may not seem like much to you, but the fact is; that tiny change cut the entire proxy setup time in half, and trimmed more than six pages out of the tutorial.

We then made a few other similar adjustments (like embedding some scripts inside other scripts, so the customer only had to type in one command to get all the scripts, instead of multiple commands). After a few more tweeks, we had the entire process of setting up a personal proxy server down to FIVE command lines! Again, that may not seem like a big deal to you, but the fact is; that’s pretty damn cool, and it cut a good 20 minutes or so off the time it takes to set up your own personal elite proxy server.

So now, all you have to do is rent a cheap remote vps server, open up PuTTy, paste in the vps’s ip address & root password (to login to your vps) type in our five short command lines, let the scripts do their work, close putty, plug the vps’s ip address into your web browser’s connection settings (or your torrent clients connection settings), refresh the page, and presto … You’re now surfing the web in complete anonymity … using the vps’s ip address instead of your own real one (after all this time I still had to look up how to spell “anonymity”, hilarious).

And the obvious kicker is; the fact that you’re even using a “fake” ip address is completely undetectable. In fact, you can order your vps with multiple ip’s on it and have multiple “fake” ip’s (or even set up multiple vps’s and have “fake” ip’s from a bunch of different cities). So there you have it; hopefully this explaination has helped you to better visualize how simple this thing really is to set up (and also helps raise my conversion rate up to 15 or 20% :)
— You Are Here: Is Setting Up an Elite Proxy Server Too Complicated to Setup Myself?

See Also: How to Hide IP Address which is a really quick overview of how this whole thing works in a step by step format (also linked up on the header as “How it Works”).

OPTION #1:

Standard Version

Use this option to set up as many elite proxy servers as you want to for the rest of your life. It will never become outdated because the script automatically updates itself every time you use it.

  $14.99

OPTION #2:

Advanced Version

Same as option #1 above but also includes instructions for putting multiple ip addresses on the same proxy server. Don't bother with this option if you only need 1 new ip address (most users) but if you want to put lots of different ip addresses all on the same proxy then this is the option for you.

  $27.50