As you may know proxy websites need a lot of bandwidth to run and they also consume more CPU than a simple website, blog or forum. That is why proxy hosting aren’t very common and more expensive than regular hosting. At the start of the experiment I used a free webhost. It did not offer to much bandwidth (only 5GB) but it is more than enough for a starting website. Also, I did not spent any money on advertisement, only some submission to proxy directories and a few posts on three or four forums where I am active. The proxy was up and running on 24May but the name servers weren’t updated so no visitors in that day. But I did start the submission to directories and forum posts. 25May was the first active day for the proxy website. I got 22 unique visits in that day, but no money from Adsense. On the 26 of May I got my first click on the proxy. I got three clicks and made 0.29$, not much, but considering I only had 44 Unique visits I was satisfied.

On the 27th I had 71 visits and earned 0.76$ and on the 28th got 124 visits but only 0.2$. Also, on this day I discussed with someone for a little advertisement. It was worth 5$ and he promised some good exposure for the website. I payed the money and waited to see the outcome the next day. On the 29Th I saw a big increase in traffic. The advertisement was successful and I got 430 Unique and active members. The proxy was used and I also got good clicks on the ads. I earned 6,19$ on that day. I was already makeing profit from the 5$ advertisement. The next day I also got 451 visits and earned 4.01$.

After that the weekend came and the visits also decreased at only 100/day. On Monday the visitors returned and I had 337 uniques. Also i registered 5,16$ in earnings. After this day something went wrong. My visits decreased at about 180-220 visits/day. I also started to get smart-priced and my earnings also decreased. I also changed my design so that I will bring visitors something new and it helped a little, but not very dramatically. I am thinking to change the design once again in something more professional.

OK! this was the story. But was it worth it? The site did earn in these two weeks more than this blog in a month. The hosting was free so I only payed the 5$. The problem is that the 5GB bandwidth got consumed really fast (in just a week and a half) but lucky for me I found someone that will give me proxy hosting (39GB bandwidth) if I agree to place a banner on my site. I considered this a good offer so I took it. Did not have any problem until now with it and I will stick with this guy for now.

The visitors started to decrease, but this is also to the lack of advertisement. Except for that 5$ I did not spent anything on promoting my site and I also stop the directory submission and the forum posting and we all now that site promotion is an essential part in developing a successful website. I will get someone to make a good design for the site, start to promote it once again and maybe even purchase another 5$ advertisement from the same guy (I was satisfied with his service). Also considering that school is over in most country it is somehow normal for the lack of visitors. I will have to wait for school to begin once again and with a little luck, I will get a piece of the “pie”.

P.S. For those that are interested, the site is: http://ip-proxy.co.cc