Choosing a VPS or Dedicated Server for Proxy’s

Once you start receicing bulk traffic to your proxy’s you will not be able to cope with just shared hosting. Often you will need to move up to a VPS (VDS) or a Dedicated Server. There are many providers of both these options so I won’t go through them here but choosing the spec for the server can be difficult.

The first thing one needs to do is to consider which proxy script you will be using. For this post I will consider the 4 main proxy scripts; Glype, CGI, PHP & Zelune.

Glype

The one thing Glype requires is a lot of CPU speed. If you are getting a dedicated this shouldn’t be an issue but for VPS’s you need to make sure you have at least 1 GHz of CPU or your proxy will be really slow. RAM and Bandwidth are not as important with glype so any spec here should be ok.

CGI

CGI proxy is a resource hog! There is no other way to put it. You need at least a dedicated server with a good CPU and a fair amount of RAM to run a fast CGI proxy network. Bandwidth is not highly important for CGI.

PHP

PHP uses a lot of bandwidth and though there are bandwidth mods for phproxy it is still necessary to make sure you have lots set aside. I would reccommend at least 250 GB per month. RAM can also be an issue with PHP but as long as you have over 512MB you shouldn’t have an issue. CPU speed is not relevant really.

Zelune

Zelune is by far the most resource friendly proxy. It will run with virtually any server with no problems. The reason it hasn’t taken over the world is the lack of support for major websites like youtube.

So, when renting your servers make sure you get the best financial deal but also that the server matches the proxy script.

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