Proxy Updates
Feb 24th, 2008 by Shaun Carter
February has been a good month for my two web proxies - Unblock YouTube and Rasta Proxy. I switched webhosts because of stability problems I was having with the VPS (Virtual Private Server) I was utilizing initially. Tech Entrance Hosting offers shared proxy hosting, which I have found to be very fast, easy to use and manager and most of all, affordable. I was able to use a 50% off for life coupon that was being offered on the Digital Point forums to make my hosting even cheaper. I pay about $25 per month for 200GB of bandwidth per month and a dedicated IP address.
So far during the month of February, the amount of traffic has been increasing until the last week. I think that Unblock YouTube has been blocked by web filters in the schools, which were the most frequent users of that proxy. I am currently searching for a way to get the site unblocked, as I have seen a method advertised on a forum but haven’t been able to track it down since. UnblockYouTube.com has ranked #1 or #2 on Google for the term “Unblock YouTube” for the last month and that alone brings in a good amount of free traffic.
The revenue generated during February so far from the various advertising on my proxies is as follows:
Adsense - $27.40 (this alone covers hosting)
Adbrite - $24.61
Adversal - $19.85
Net Audio Ads - not fully functioning yet, but could generate another $25-50 per month.
Total Revenue- $71.86
Expenses - $25
Profit so far this month = $46.86
I don’t really spend any time updating or working on my proxies. I will probably start doing a little more promotion of them since traffic is slowing down. But for two proxies, that’s not a bad level of earnings for about 24 days. Now extend those numbers out to about $50 per full month or $25 per proxy per month and you can see how high earnings can build up to with a 50 or 100 proxy network ($1,250 - 2,500 per month). Domain registration and dedicated server costs would erode some of that, but it would make a nice side income for sure.
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