Understanding Proxies

You may well have noticed that proxies come in several different forms. This article will outline what you can expect from each kind of proxy and why they might be used.

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Web Proxies
Web Proxies are designed to improve a user’s web-browsing experience by cutting out the need for the user’s computer to interact with internet-servers and speeding up webpage loading times.

The web-proxy is a remote proxy which sits in-between the user and the web-server. The first time the web-proxy encounters a website it stores all the relevant files in a database-cache. The next time a user visits a website through the web-proxy, they will be shown the information the web-proxy has stored and will not be in contact with the internet server itself, and this speeds up the whole process. The web-proxy will remove out-dated files on a regular basis to keep the information as fresh as possible.

If a user employs a local proxy server, or a good web-proxy like Proxify, they can speed up the process of Internet surfing quite considerably.

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