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I have been quite busy lately juggling my full time job and all my sites. Im glad to say traffic and revenue are creeping back up through september, a few server optimizations helped there. I’ve always kept the proxy builder blog as an extra, I hope my proxy articles help people over time but I cannot dedicate myself to writing regularly. I hope that people are learning and experimenting with my ideas, I love new competition! Enough rambling, back to business.

I have made some very interesting purchases lately and with the closure of the PHProxy project, my timing couldent of been better. I now own great keyword domains for all the best PHP based proxy scripts around. Zelune.info was my first one word proxy script domain, quite a fitting TLD I think.

The Glype proxy script is a quite a young contender but if updates & patches continue at this pace it will be great. You can now use our free glype web proxy at Glype.net. You can also download the very powerful PHP glype proxy script from our site, but you must keep a link back to the original glype website to use it.

I also snapped up Surrogafier.info, the name of a increasingly popular php proxy script. I definitely got a very fair price and grabbed a snazzy new proxy template for it too. I have used this script on a couple of my proxy websites and found it had quite good functionality. The site needs some work doing to it and I will offer a free source for the Surrogafier proxy script download.

I have been slacking off a bit on my websites lately. Its difficult to work 24/7 but I have many more proxy projects underway and I showcase them here when they are complete.

Proxy Builder would like to announce the release of a free Zelune Proxy Script download over at Zelune.info. Zelune is a fast web-based proxy script, it delivers great performance and competes with the more established PHProxy script. You can find more information on the Zelune Proxy Script at its official home - Zelune.net. They provide a reliable download location for the script and are slowly developing their website into a helpful resource.

The Zelune Proxy Script Pack over at Zelune.info comes integrated with this template:

As always, please keep the footer links intact, Zelune.info is one of my own proxy websites and I am providing these resources for free on that condition. I look forward to releasing more free proxy templates in the next couple weeks, keep checking back!

I would just like to share with everyone the newly released (Aug 6th) Glype 0.3b Proxy Script. It looks like an extremely promising alternative to PHProxy, Zelune and other PHP-based proxy scripts with very similiar functionality. I havent tested it myself yet but I look forward to integrating and trying it out. While I was reading this post I helped myself to some prime Glype domains - I’ve found however obscure the name, people will remember quality web proxies.

Here is a list of the current features in the Glype proxy script 0.3b

• supports caching headers to allow normal browser caching
• uses a server-side cache to speed up requests for common images, files and stylesheets
• no installation needed so simply upload and go!
• setup wizard allows you to configure advanced options for your proxy with no PHP knowledge
• simple theme system provides different layouts quickly and easily
• ensure anonymity by stripping client-side scripts and preventing them from running on proxified pages.
• block access to particular sites with your choice of either a blacklist (blocks every site listed) or a whitelist (blocks every site other than the ones listed)
• ban users individually by IP address or collectively with flexible support for IP ranges
• filter bad words that may cause the entire page to be blocked if the user is subject to network restrictions (such as at school, college or work)
• strip elements from pages such as embedded audio/video or flash to conserve bandwidth

• supports Basic HTTP authentication so you can log into your protected areas

You can find more information on the Glype Proxy script below:

System Requirements

• PHP 5 with cURL enabled
• optional: for caching, PHP must be able to write to the cache folder

Demo
Proxy: http://www.glype.com/products/proxy/demo/
Setup wizard preview: http://www.glype.com/products/proxy/demo/setup.php

Download
http://www.glype.com/downloads/#proxy

Notes Currently released as beta but tested on MySpace, Facebook, Gmail and many other sites.

As you can see there seems to be a very professional setup behind this proxy script, this market is still relatively restricted in the scripts available and more choices are certainly welcome. Time has shown however that proxy scripts can quickly come and go, unless there is dedicated development then it will be more wasted talent. I would appreciate feedback from users and other proxy webmasters on this new proxy service.

I briefly covered the importance of a robots.txt file in my recent article: 5 Tips for Proxy Webmasters. There has been alot of discussion about this over at the proxy.org forums and most people have come to the conclusion it is an essential part of building a quality proxy website.

A correctly configured robots.txt tells search engine spiders where they can go on your website, if you dont stop spiders from accessing your proxy script then you could damage your website search engine rankings and trust. Search engines can be a vital source of organic traffic to proxy websites, if you dont block spiders from visiting proxied pages your site could get penalized Continue reading »

I would just like to highlight the main Proxy Builder homepage and our free online proxy building tool, make a PHProxy or CGI Proxy Website on the fly. You can customize your proxy website title, description, background color, content color, border color and font. We would love to hear new suggestions for our main site, I look forward to developing the main portal and I will be keeping you guys updated via the blog. We welcome you to use our contact form if you would like to get in touch at any time.

You should also check out our step by step guides in our proxy resource section. We offer a wide variety of information to proxy webmasters. I welcome you to read some of our other indepth proxy articles, I will be updating them in the coming days. Check the webmaster articles out now: Getting Started, Traffic Building Tips, Proxy Topsites, Proxy Ad Networks and Ad Optimization.