Build a proxy ip tutorial: a complete guide from VPS shopping to software deployment

Is it really cost effective to build your own proxy IP?

Many technical whites thought to buy a VPS can easily build agents, the actual operation of all the pits. Last year, a cross-border e-commerce friends, cheap to buy a monthly payment of 3 U.S. dollars in Southeast Asia servers, the results of the IP pool was blocked two to three days, the store wind control directly pull full. Here to remind you:The core cost of self-built proxies is not the price of the server at all, but the stability of IP resources and operation and maintenance costsThe

If you really want to toss your own, it is recommended that you prioritize the Hong Kong/Japan VPS with CN2 lines, at least to ensure the quality of the underlying network. Here to give a configuration reference table:

Hands-on installation of agency services

Squid and Dante are the recommended solutions here, the former is suitable for HTTP proxies and the latter supports the SOCKS5 protocol. Installation of Squid is actually four steps:

 Update the repositories (Debian/Ubuntu)
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

 Install core components
sudo apt install squid -y

 Modify the configuration file
sudo nano /etc/squid/squid.conf
 Find the line http_port 3128 and uncomment it.
 set visible_hostname your_proxy

 Restart the service
sudo systemctl restart squid

注意！默认配置允许所有人连接，记得在acl里设置白名单，不然等着被团队吧。

Self-Build vs. Professional Services Comparison

After three months of tossing around on your own, you'll find these bad things: IPs are blocked in bulk, bandwidth runs full of lag, maintenance costs soar... This is when it's time to consider professional services. Take ipipgo's dynamic residential agent for example, their family'sAutomatic IP pool rotation mechanismIt can effectively avoid wind control, and it is so much more hassle-free than manually changing IPs.

For example, when doing data collection, use their API to call it directly this way:

import requests

proxy = {
    'http': 'http://用户名:密码@gateway.ipipgo.com:端口',
    'https': 'http://用户名:密码@gateway.ipipgo.com:端口'
}

response = requests.get('destination URL', proxies=proxy, timeout=10)

QA First Aid Kit

Q: Proxy always prompts connection timeout?
先检查服务器防火代理，开端口命令记得用ufw allow port number. If you're an ipipgo user, just ask customer service for an alternate access point, they have over 20 transit nodes worldwide.

Q: What if I need to fix the IP of a certain city?
Self-built programs have to find the local IDC to buy servers, the cost of direct sky. ipipgo's static residential proxy support city-level positioning, in the control panel to choose a specific area on the line, the price is cheaper than self-built at least 60%.

Q: Will it lag if I have to process a lot of requests at the same time?
Don't put a GUI on your VPS! Machines with less than 4G of RAM are recommended to switch to a lightweight proxy like microsocks. Professional scenarios go directly to ipipgo's enterprise package, their dynamic residential proxies support 100+ concurrent requests per second.

The Ultimate Solution

At the end of the day, self-built proxies are good for tech geeks to practice on, but for commercial use you need to be a professional. ipipgo'sDynamic Residential (Enterprise Edition)There are three killer points:

1. IP survival time can be customized from 1 minute to 24 hours.
2. Supports simultaneous use of HTTP and SOCKS5 protocols, no need to switch back and forth
3. With automatic request failure retry mechanism, the success rate can be 99.2% or more!

Recently they have a new user campaign, the first recharge to send 10% traffic package. It is recommended to take the free trial to test it first (each account can receive 1GB of traffic), it is much more cost-effective than blindly building your own. Remember, time cost is the most expensive!