proxy

16 Oct, 2014

Random Proxy Switcher

By |2019-03-04T16:33:52+02:00October 16th, 2014|Web Scraping|0 Comments

We decided to release a side product of our internal systems. It is a free Chrome extension which allows users to browse the web while randomly changing proxy every minute. Of course the catch is that we do not give out proxy servers themselves, but there are plenty services that provide them. Or anyone can launch their own for free by following this tutorial.

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13 Oct, 2014

How to Setup a Free Proxy Server on Amazon EC2

By |2019-03-04T16:33:18+02:00October 13th, 2014|Web Scraping|1 Comment

Open Amazon Web Services (AWS) Account

Go to the AWS Portal and sign up. Credit card will be required, but Amazon will not charge anything. Amazon will also ask for your phone number and verify it. Amazon EC2 offers free Micro Instances which are good enough for proxy server setup. They remain free for the first year of AWS usage.

Creating an EC2 Instance

Once you have the account login to AWS Management Console and from the EC2 Dashboard click the Launch Instance. Follow the steps and launch the instance of Ubuntu Server which is marked as Free tier eligible. Make sure you download SSH key file (.pem) as it will be needed to connect to server.

Free tier eligible Ubuntu Server