Tryout proxy server IP addresses now listed

Our 15 different "tryout" proxy services at pickaproxy.com now show which IP addresses they are made up of, along with their geographic location ("geolocation") and the name of the organization that owns it. For the "Tor speak" version of our web site page, we now also show the Tor node nickname of each.

Many of you will likely wonder why we have so many IP addresses included in each of these - the US, Germany, non-China, non-US and non-Germany ones have 32 different IP addresses. The reason is because each of our proxy services randomly assigns 1 of these IP addresses to you each time you go to a web site, and also changes it every x minutes to 1 of the other IP addresses. The actual value of "x minutes" is not precise, and depends on a number of factors that we cannot predict in advance at this point. This random assignment of IP addresses allows more users to use the same proxy service at the same time.

Our "random" tryout proxy service does not have a specific set of IP addresses - it randomly picks from the complete set of Tor Network proxy servers, which is averaging about 617 so far this month.

Next up is to show the real-time status of each of these proxy services, so you can know in advance which ones are currently working and which ones are currently not. The US proxy in particular is often running at capacity and also crashes and goes offline regularly, which is something we are working on getting resolved. The crashes are automatically resolved every 1-2 hours when we take down and restart each proxy service, but it is still vexing that we have not been able to stop the crashes so far.

We have also changed the way we determine "Excluded" proxy servers, and now show the list of globally excluded proxy servers underneath the list of "Current tryout Proxy Servers". Previously we were excluding specific proxy server "nicknames" but we now also support excluding by ISP, Owning Organization, domain name, IP address and IP address range, Country, Continent, City, Tor software version number running on the proxy server, and the operating system "platform" running on the proxy server.

Comments

[anonymous]

There isn't a single link on this page to whatever it is you're actually talking about. I had to Google to find http://www.pickaproxy.com. This seems like, well, something basic...

(Also, this comment box is ridiculously tiny. I thought people had figured out not to do that a decade ago...)

[WebMaster of pickaproxy.com]

Thanks for the heads up! Link to pickaproxy.com now added to this post!

[Ibrahim Hudhaif]

by sudden I ended up to your blog ... very interesting work ... I will drop by once a while so :)

Cool stuff!