Remote VPS Proxy Server Hosting Explained

In order to set up your own high anonymous elite proxy “server”, you first need a remote “server” account to set it up “on”. The server is needed for four main reasons:

#1- It’s what runs the ip “proxifying” script. #2- It’s what your web browser (or torrent client, etc.) will connect to. #3- It’s the machine that will actually go out and get what you want from the internet for you so that your own machine doesn’t leave any tracks. And #4- It has it’s own ip address (ie, the ip address(es) you will use in place of your real ip address).

What is Remote VPS Proxy Server Hosting?

The really really great news for us (ie, for those of us needing a remote server to set up a private proxy script on) is that we now have a cheap option available to us that never used to be. In the old days, if you wanted a remote server, you had to rent a full dedicated server. As you can imagine; that was extremely expensive, especially considering that all we wanted it for was to run a tiny little proxy script on. But now, likely in an attempt to vastly broaden their market, dedicated server hosting companies started partitioning (dividing up) their full dedicated servers into much much smaller cheaper sections (each totally private from the others, and each running their own seperate operating system). If you’ve read any of the other pages on this site, you know that those “partitions” are called “virtual private servers” (VPS’s). Another name some hosts have tried to use, but with much less general acceptance is VDS (virtual dedicated server). Both names represent the same thing, but “VPS” is the one more widely used. Most hosts will generally offer several different sized versions of partitions (ie, different amounts of bandwidth allowed to run through the server monthly, and different sized hard drives, etc).

The price to rent one of these partitions (remote vps servers) mostly depends on how much bandwidth you need, and how big of a hard drive you need. Many hosts offer an extremely small “bare-bones” version that has nothing but an operating system and an ip address on it. This is the exact size we need to set up a proxy script on because those two things are all we need (ie, a proxy script basically takes up zero space on the server, and the amount of bandwidth on these tiny vps’s is generally more than enough to cover the monthly internet activities of one person). That’s likely because the intended market for these tiny vps’s are for website developers to build and test their websites on prior to setting them live on a bigger server (ie, a server with enough bandwidth to handle all the multiple users that will be using the finished website). As a result, you may also hear vps’s referred to as “development servers”. And speaking as a bit of a web developer myself, I can tell you that I’m pretty sure I run more bandwidth through my development servers in a month than probably at least ten average internet users combined. The point simply being that, when hosting companies set these up, they assume that web developers will use a heck of a lot more bandwidth in a month than a normal internet web surfer would, and thus, very likely over compensate quite a bit. But even if they don’t, and you find yourself needing more bandwidth, you can just upgrade to the next size up for a few extra bucks. In my experience you can often double your vps’s bandwidth for only an extra 5 bucks or so with many hosts.

So the short answer is: Remote VPS proxy server hosting is an order you place with a vps hosting company to rent one of their tiny unmanaged remote vps server partitions on a month to month basis for the purpose of running (ie, “hosting”) a proxy script on it (ie, setting up their vps server in such a way that allows you to use it’s ip address to run all your internet activities though, instead of running them through your own real ip address, thus, making your real ip address hidden, anonymous, undetectable). All this, as oppossed to setting up a “website” script on the vps instead (as is more typical).

Why Do I Need VPS Proxy Server Hosting?

The word “proxy” just means “substitute” or “stand-in”, and a “server” is basically just a computer. So a “proxy server” is a “stand-in” for your real computer. The whole reason you need a stand-in for your real computer (ie, the whole reason you need a “proxy” computer) is so that you can do things on the internet without anyone being able to identify your real computer (nor your real connection origin, ie, where you are/where you live, ie, where you’re connecting from). The “stand-in” (proxy) computer is identified instead (ie, instead of your real computer and location).

A more direct way of doing this would be to go over to a friend’s house and use your friends computer and connection instead of your own. But obviously that’s not quite as convienent as being able to accomplish the same effect (or better) without leaving your house. The proxy computer plays the role of your friend. But instead of having to convince your friend to let you use his or her computer every time you need to be anonymous online, you just pay a hosting company 6 or 10 bucks a month and accomplish the same thing, and with the extra added bonus of appearing to be in a totally different geographic location (city, state, country) or multiple different locations (ie, if you set up multiple elite proxies).

If you think 6 or 10 bucks a month is too expensive for such a luxury; go knock on your neighbors door and ask him or her if you can pay them 6 bucks to come over to their house everyday and download torrent movies on their computer instead.

So the reason you need remote vps proxy server hosting is because you need a stand-in computer to hide yourself, your identity, your real ip address, your real location, et cetera … and a vps hosting company will let you use one of their “computers” (ie, be your friend) for only about 6 or 10 bucks a month. So instead of having your own real computer connecting directly to all those nefarious sites, or searching for those nefarious things, or downloading torrent files and such from your own real computer; you send your “proxy” server out to do it for you instead.

When you set up and use a proxy server; instead of sending your internet requests “directly”, you send them to your proxy server instead. Then your proxy server makes the direct connection for you, grabs what you want, and returns it to you from itself (instead of from where it got it from) ie, your real home computer NEVER actually connects to ANYTHING other than your proxy server. The proxy computer goes out to all those bad neighborhoods for you.

It’s sort of like a delivery service, or a personal assistant. Remember the Seinfeld episodes where Crammer got banned from buying fruit, George got banned from buying calzones, Elane got banned from having chinese food delivered, and of course, the “soup nazi” bans. In each case they sent a “proxy” to get the things they were banned from getting (or too embarrassed to get) for themselves.

Note: All of this happens in the background. Your actual user experience doesn’t change from the way you use the internet right now without a proxy server, because you use the same web browser you use now, and you use it exactly the same way too. The only difference is that your browser now sends all the requests you make to the proxy server, instead of directly to the final destination (but as just discussed, you are not aware of it happening, it happens seamlessly in the background).

So the short answer is: If you need a stand-in computer; a remote VPS (from a vps hosting company) is the absolute cheapest, easiest, most accessible, and most convienient possible way to accomplish that (try to rent full private use of someone else’s computer anywhere else for less).

* By the way (and for the record) I have no relationship with ANY vps hosting companies. I have no horse in the race, no skin in the game, etc, etc. I have NO financial stake, nor otherwise, in the success nor failure of any vps hosting company, nor the vps hosting industry in general. Go ahead and use a full dedicated server if you like, or some other such solution of your own. I’m simply telling you that I have a hell of a lot of experience with such things, and in my professional opinion; a vps just makes sense; you can literally find them for less that $10 bucks a month (what else do you need to know?). If you’ve got a better remote server option; by all means spill your guts; I’ll switch in a heart beat, I have no specific loyalty to the vps industry; it just happens to be the most perfect option available.

How Do I Find VPS Proxy Server Hosting?

The 10 minute proxy tutorial has a list of about 20 potential vps hosting companies to get you started. Or you can just search for one like you search for anything else. Make sure it’s an “unmanaged” vps, make sure you get “root” access, and make sure you can select “ubuntu” as the Linux disto. *Note: The fact that we use a Linux vps server does NOT effect what operating systems can connect through that proxy server. If it did, you wouldn’t be able to connect to any websites running on a Linux server (and most of them are). ANY computer can connect to the proxy server regardless of the operating system it’s set up on.

How Do I Order VPS Proxy Server Hosting?

The 10 minute proxy tutorial has very specific instructions for filling out a vps hosting order form, but basically you just select ubuntu operating system, select how many ip addresses you want, and create a password.

How Much Will VPS Proxy Server Hosting Cost?

The tiny bare-bones versions we need to set up a proxy server on can easily be found for less than about $10 bucks per month. Each vps hosting company listed in the 10 minute proxy tutorial has a version at or below $10 bucks per month. — You Are Here: Remote VPS Proxy Server Hosting Explained

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