Quickly Learn How to Build Your Own Private Proxy Server Step by Step

The first step in setting up a private proxy server is to get yourself a cheap remote server. Don’t let that scare you away (it’ll only cost about $6 or $10 bucks, and it’s a very simple process). In fact it’s even easier than getting a web server for a website. These remote servers are called VPS’s, short for Virtual Private Server. The vps comes with it’s own private IP address already pre-installed by default, so all we have to do is add a bit of proxy scripting to allow our web browser (firefox or IE for example) to connect to the vps prior to connecting to the websites you’re trying to access (ie, surfing the web).

Step Two in Our Private Proxy Server Quest

is to access our new vps remotely (via the internet) from your web browser, just like you do to go to your favorite websites (like this one for example). Again, this is a simple matter, the vps hosting company will send you a hyper link to this control panel (hypervm control panel). This allows you to build your own private elite proxy server without leaving your chair. When you arrive at the hypervm control panel, there are only two icons you’ll be using: the “file manager” icon, and the “console access” icon. The file manager lets you paste the proxy script I give you into the vps, and the consol lets you type the few lines of code I give you into the root of the vps. Once those two things are done, all that’s left to do is restart the proxy server that we just installed on the vps so that the server will start using our scripts instead of the ones it uses by default.

The Final Step is to Connect to Your New Private Proxy

For this explanation I’ll assume that you’re using mozilla firefox as your web browser. On the firefox menu bar above, Click: Tools >> Options >> Advanced >> Network >> Settings >> Configure Proxy Settings. [all browsers have a similar setting]. As stated, the vps you build your own private proxy server on, has it’s own private private ip address (that’s fitting since the whole point of this proxy stuff is to change your ip address right?). Well by default (right now) your browser uses the ip address that your isp (internet service provider) assigned to you (ie, your “real” ip address), so what we need to do is change one setting in the browser so that it connects through your private proxy server before it connects to the websites you visit. The vps hosting company will have already sent this ip address to your email. All it is, is a series of numeric digits seperated by three dots (123.123.123.123) for example. Your’s will be different obviously, and much more unique. Just copy the ip the hosting company sent you and paste it into the text box that pops up in firefox, change the port number to 3128, click save or ok, and click the “refresh” “reload” button on your browser. A small window will pop up for you to login. You will have already assigned yourself a username and password in the above “console access” steps. Click “ok and you’re all done; your web browser is now connecting through your private proxy server, and showing your private ip address instead of your real ip address. — You’re welcome (:

There are probably as many reasons for wanting to hide your ip address as there are people wanting to do so, and obviously I can’t hope to cover even a fraction of them here, but the most obvious reason it to pretend to be someone else (not a specific someone else neccessarily, just not you). It changes the geographic location (town, city, state) of your internet connection so that you appear to be a totally different person in a totally different city. This method above is the only way to do that without it being known that you’re doing it (that’s the “elite” part, an “elite” proxy is the only type that hides the fact that it’s a proxy).

Probably the most common use for “elite” proxies is cracking (often mis-represented as hacking), and I want to be clear that I definitely do not support this crack hacking/cracking type of thing. Crackers or crack hackers use elite proxies for reasons that we don’t need to get into here, and they obviously already know how to build their own, so I don’t feel that I’m helping them.

Yet another use is setting up multiple user accounts on websites that let you submit stuff. Internet marketers (myself possibly included) use these things to set up multiple accounts for such things as article marketing and voting for, or rating, your own artiles, et cetera. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this site, proxies have been around as long as the internet itself. The basic idea is letting multiple people all connect to the internet via the same server for example (your ISP is basically nothing but a really really big proxy). BUT since yours is password protected by default, and since you obviously won’t be telling anyone else that yours even exists in the first place; yours is just for your own private use. That gives you some really huge advantages. For one thing, you won’t be sharing bandwidth with anyone else, and thus, it will be faster than one that has multiple people from all over the planet all trying to use it at the same time. For another thing, no one can track what you do online. Can my ISP track me? NO. Can search engines track me ? NO. Can google track me? NO. Can my government track me? NO. Can my school track me? NO. Can my boss track me? NO. Can my company track me? NO. Can websites track me? NO (that’s exactly why, cracker hackers use them btw). — You Are Here: Learn How to Build Your Own Private Proxy Server Step by Step

More Info: Set Up Proxy Server of Your Own

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