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1 Year Established Proxy 200 300 Per Month

www.fsurf.com

http://www.fsurf.com/

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Listed:
Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:06:24 GMT

Accepted Payment Methods: PayPal

Description

I am selling one of my oldest proxy sites. I have had this up for over a year. There is no advertising done on the site except for a couple links on various sites. Majority of traffic is just from word of mouth or returning visitors. View statcounter stats here: http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=1361067&guest=1 Also included is freewebproxy.net which is just pointing to fsurf.com as well. Both domains are registered through NameCheap. I have a SSL certificate setup to support secure browsing as well: https://www.fsurf.com

Revenue Details

The site uses Google Adsense on main page and BannerConnect / RightMedia 468x60 ads above proxied pages.

Questions 30 public, 1 deleted

  1. Avatar for spacewagon
    Posted by:
    spacewagon (+3)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:12:02 GMT

    CGIProxy or PHPProxy?

  2. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:15:27 GMT

    PHPProxy is what is currently using and has been for awhile. Although when I first started it I was switching between cgi and php so I have a similar template setup to use cgiproxy http://www.fsurf.com/cgi.html

  3. Avatar for flamewalker
    Posted by:
    flamewalker (+3)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:18:51 GMT

    Do you have proof of revenue?

  4. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:21:04 GMT

    The revenue screenshots are attached on the right side...

  5. Avatar for WiseWebDude
    Posted by:
    WiseWebDude (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:22:40 GMT

    I cannot tell what the site is really. How in heck is there that much traffic with it basically being an MFA site? Maybe I am missing something here. Did this site used to be something else?

  6. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:26:55 GMT

    It is a proxy website as said, not sure what MFA site is. Maybe this will help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server

  7. Avatar for ilovemilk360
    Posted by:
    ilovemilk360 (+3)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:32:18 GMT

    where is it hosted and how much are you paying per month.

  8. Avatar for flamewalker
    Posted by:
    flamewalker (+3)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:32:19 GMT

    Before i make an offer, what kind of bandwidth do you use and do you need a dedicated server to run this site? If so how much a month is it and what are the specs?

  9. Avatar for MHavoc
    Posted by:
    MHavoc (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:34:16 GMT

    Where do you have it hosted? How much per month? Any problems with hosting company?

  10. Avatar for flamewalker
    Posted by:
    flamewalker (+3)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:37:33 GMT

    Also, will you accept escrow.com?

  11. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:41:21 GMT

    The bandwidth is in those screenshots above.

    Yes a dedicated is required for a proxy server. The specs of mine is the lowest server they offered at the time, I believe an AMD2800 with 512 of RAM.

    I host at OrangeFiber.com, my server is $119 per month unmetered 10MBPS connection. I currently host 4 proxy sites on this server. I have no problems with the hosting company.

  12. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:42:46 GMT

    I will look into escrow.com and let you know.

  13. Avatar for flamewalker
    Posted by:
    flamewalker (+3)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:49:02 GMT

    am i reading that right... 1TB+/mo?

  14. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:55:11 GMT

    June was the highest bandwidth usage in the screenshot which used 1.407411 terabytes. I used this site to convert it: http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/

  15. Avatar for Christiano
    Posted by:
    Christiano (+3)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:13:39 GMT

    I'm stuggling to see were the adsense adverts are placed. Could you shed some light as to where the are located on your website? Cheers

  16. Avatar for jennymac
    Posted by:
    jennymac (+3)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:15:37 GMT

    Hey bgolat

    correct me if I'm wrong...

    there are 1,118,997,753 page impression for the month of August 2006 as it says on you Web Statistics.
    BUT..

    On Google Adsense page I only see 71,570 page impression for the month of August 2006.

    Please clarify that for me.

    Thanks

  17. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:33:39 GMT

    Simple reason, adsense is only on 1 page. It is not on the majority of the pages that people visit (proxied pages). Also, many sites will link directly to the proxied page they want, thus never even visiting the home page. For example: http://www.fsurf.com/index.php?q=d3d3Lmdvb2dsZS5jb20-&hl=1111101001 you could bookmark that and visit google everytime through your bookmark without starting at the homepage with adsense. Hope that helps!

  18. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:34:26 GMT

    Christiano

    they are on the homepage: www.fsurf.com, at the top and then the big block of ads in the middle.

  19. Avatar for lamans
    Posted by:
    lamans (+3)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:45:42 GMT

    Hiya

    Hehehe just shows how effective your ads are or you paid him to say that

    [QUOTE=Christiano]I'm stuggling to see were the adsense adverts are placed. Could you shed some light as to where the are located on your website? Cheers"[/QUOTE]

  20. Avatar for zymic
    Posted by:
    zymic (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:56:42 GMT

    Hello,

    So profit after server is around $100, right?

  21. Avatar for flamewalker
    Posted by:
    flamewalker (+3)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:58:55 GMT

    That would be about right... $100-200 or so.

  22. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:30:57 GMT

    Well, profit after server varies on many things. I have 4 proxies on the server that fsurf is on (one is larger than fsurf). So I wouldn't say fsurf costs $119 to run (maybe 35-50% of that). Such as last month it earned $366 total, minus 50% of server cost ($60) would equal $306 of profit. Month before that $180 earned total - $60 = $120 profit.

  23. Avatar for dkrapo
    Posted by:
    dkrapo (+3)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:13:53 GMT

    Hello, have you had any adsense warning these days ?
    I am refering to this thread : http://proxy.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1159902577
    thanks,
    dkrapo

  24. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:26:46 GMT

    dkrapo, I have not received anything like this. I have checked with google on my proxy sites to make sure they are ok, and I have record that I am within the TOS.

  25. Avatar for Zander
    Posted by:
    Zander (+3)
    Date:
    Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:33:57 GMT

    Hrumm this sale is very missleading

    The site uses Google Adsense on main page and BannerConnect / RightMedia 468x60 ads above proxied pages.

    Ban con and Right Media DO NOT support proxy sites anymore.

  26. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:44:51 GMT

    RightMedia has just recently stopped supporting proxy either this week or last, I do not remember. However BannerConnect still supports it.

  27. Avatar for Zander
    Posted by:
    Zander (+3)
    Date:
    Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:04:28 GMT

    Nope sorry Ban connect DOESN'T support proxy sites.

    Thanks for your interest in Bannerconnect.
    I'm sorry, proxy sites have proven themselves in general, over the past, to provide extremely low quality traffic with low CTR and high impression/IP ratios, as well as causing technical issues with many of the sites they proxy, and Bannerconnect has therefore stopped accepting them for the time being.

    Best Regards,

    Kjell Jetten
    Bannerconnect Support

  28. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:18:35 GMT

    well they haven't disabled them for me - nor have I been notified that they plan to. As you can see in the screenshot they are still counting impressions in October. Either way, there are plenty of ad networks for the new owner to use to monetize the site, or even selling their own text links / cpm banners.

  29. Avatar for bgolat
    Posted by:
    bgolat (+5)
    Date:
    Sat, 07 Oct 2006 18:06:48 GMT

    Edman chose Buy It Now. Just waiting to here from him. Will update the thread as soon as possible.

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