What is a proxy server?

A proxy server is a kind of buffer between your computer and the Internet resources you are accessing. The data you request come to the proxy first, and on y then it transmits the data to you. What is an anonymous proxy server? Anonymous proxy servers hide your I! address and thereby prevent unauthori"ed access to your computer through the Internet. They do not provide anyone with your I! address and effective y hide any information about you and your reading interests. #esides that, they don$t even et anyone know that you are surfing through a proxy server. Anonymous proxy servers can be used for a kinds of Web%services, such as Web%&ai '&() *ot &ai , +ahoo mai ,, web%chat rooms, -T! archives, etc. Why do I need to use proxy servers? .. Transfer speed improvement. !roxy servers accumu ate and save fi es that are most often requested by thousands of Internet users in a specia database, ca ed /cache0. Therefore, proxy servers are ab e to increase the speed of your connection to the Internet. The cache of a proxy server may a ready contain information you need by the time of your request, making it possib e for the proxy to de iver it immediate y. 1. (ecurity and privacy. Anonymous proxy servers that hide your I! address thereby saving you from vu nerabi ities concerned with it. 2. (ometimes you may encounter prob ems whi e accessing to web server when server administrator restricted access from your I! or even from wide I! range 'for examp e restricting access from certain countries or geographica regions,. (o you try to access those pages using an anonymous proxy server. What is a pub ic proxy server? It is a proxy server which is free and open for everybody on the Internet. 3nfortunate y most of them are not anonymous. What is a pay proxy server? Anonymi"er % a pay proxy server with p enty of features. 4ffective for persona use, when your Internet activities are not invo ved in very active surfing, web site deve opment, mass form submitting, etc. In short, Anonymi"er is the best so ution for most of Internet users. 3 timate protection of privacy % nobody can find out where you are engaged in surfing. # ocks a methods of tracking. 356 4ncryption protects you from your own I(!. Web #ased % does not require any program insta ation or a configuration on your computer. What is a free proxy checker? -ree service trying to provide dai y updated ist of pub ic *TT! proxy servers. 3sua y provide sma ist of proxies with ow percent of functioning servers due to hosting restrictions on 7!3 time 'they simp y can8t a ow themse ves to check many proxies every second especia y in para e ,.