Comments on: PHP Proxy versus CGI Proxy

By: Olaf

Olaf — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:46:35 +0000

I think 0.5 mb is a little to small, a better value is ~2mb.

And I think you tell people that there is limit otherwise the go away because the become mad

By: Haris

Haris — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:27:02 +0000

Thanks for sharing the way you use to optimize your proxy site. GZIP takes a lot of server resources.

Anyways, let us know if you had lost any traffic after implementing restriction to downloading movies/big files.

By: Collin Raithe

Collin Raithe — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:30:45 +0000

Thanks a bunch for this. My proxy (PHP) was using lots of bandwidth (60+ gigs per day), and this page helped me find optomization links off google. If anyone else wants to know how to save bandwidth:

At the top of the index, turn on gzip compresson:
ob_start( ‘ob_gzhandler’ );

In the config, turn file size to half a meg (prevents downloading movies/big files)
‘max_file_size’ => 524288,

This is saving me tons of bandwidth for my proxy http://unblock.cc

Thanks again for the blog!

By: Olaf

Olaf — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:50:34 +0000

Actually, I lost a lot of visitors (all the people watching porn) lol

I thought that CGIproxy doesn’t start the Youtube videos…(some flash player update is the problem)

By: Haris

Haris — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:38:29 +0000

Okay, do you lose returning visitors after or before you implimented 1.5 mb limit?

Youtube videos are above 1.5 MB