Hello readers, It is the first time I am writing here in blog in exams. Today I ‘ll talk about the most widely used free proxy scripts which will definitely help you to choose the best and suitable one for you. Here is the detailed review of 5 most widely used and free proxy scripts according to my ranking.

1) PHProxy - Clear from its name, It is a php proxy script and It is number one in my ranking because of many reasons. I think 70% proxy webmasters use phproxy. Its first position is because of its reliability. It needs regular hosting (simple proxy hosting) and it don’t need any extra plugin installed on the server. Also, There are a lot of Free Design available for this script by FreeProxyThemes etc. Its URL encoding is just superb. Only professional guys can understand it and as a result you can’t be the victim of bandwidth stealing. I see a lot of guys don’t visit the homepage of the website and directly go to their URL. It is the short method for them but it makes our earnings short too. The coder of this script is Abdullah Arif but I heared that he has stopped the usage of this script but still people are using it as it comes in the package of all ready made templates we download from those template sites. Take a Demo of this template here. My rating for this script is 4.5/5.

2) Surrogafier - Not many people like this but I do. Ok listen why this is one of my favorite. I am using this one for my 2 biggy proxy networks and phproxy for individual sites. People say it is only one file and it is very hard to modify. Yeah, they are right but dear guys you can split into parts using a simple include function of PHP. I like it because it is more fast and it is not too common. Hardly very few proxies use it. Thats why I prefer it and It has some more extra function, you can use select a tunnel and favorite browser and operating system with this. Here is its demo. It is free to use and distribute under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is also written in PHP. Just like phproxy it also don’t need any extra server plugin to run. I also wanna share a fact that I am using surrogafier on one site and phproxy on second and the traffic is almost same in both but the bandwidth consumption varies in both. While phproxy site is consuming 1.1 GB per day and that surrogafier is near about 875MB and it is the difference is quite large. It is on rank because i never found a single template for it, So it is difficult for new bie to set it up. I promise you guys that the templates I am going to release will be available in all versions (surrogafier too!). I also want to give a it to surrogafier users that split it to 3 files. Separate the template code near between line 300 - 400 and the frame code next to it. It will help you to modify it. Okay my rating for this one is 4/5.

3) CGI Proxy - Again clear from its name, It is written in Perl CGI. I don’t know perl, I know very little like ABC of perl so I faced a lot of problems while installing CGI proxy. If you know how Perl then you can install it in seconds like other CGI script. The main quality of CGI script is that it is much harder to block and if you make it support SSL then it is almost impossible for sites to block it. Then you can surf sites like MySpace, Orkut too which you can’t use (login) in normal one. There are a lot of drawbacks of this script. First of all it consume a lot of bandwidth… yeah more than anyone. Secondly, It is a little but slow, if you make it SSL compatible then it gets even more slow. Thirdly, You need your server fast and bold enough to handle this. It can crash it sometime then you (or your webhost) need to restart the server. If you are on VPS or Dedicated than it is will better to install a plugin(i don’t remember the name) by which the server gets restarted after a particular period of time. See its demo here. If you are having any problem in installing it, i would like to recommend you this online installer by which you can have a installed CGI proxy with some mouse clicks. It only need to enter your FTP data in it. Here is the link to that online tool. If you wish to make it SSL one too, then don’t forget to read this. You will need to install these two addons to your sever - OpenSSL and Net::SSLeay. You will have more info about ssl ones in upcoming posts. I guarantee that if you make it SSL one to then the traffic and bandwidth too will be doubled as teenagers like us once start to surf myspace and orkut then they never stops ;). Summing up, I would like to say that it will be great to use it but look at your resources too.

4) Zelune - It is one of the modern proxy script. It is also written in PHP. I am not much familiar with this one but i have this one installed in my vertrigo (localhost) so i know about this one. It is also very popular. It is very much similar like phproxy. You can see a lot of themes available for this one too like free zelune proxy themes. People says it is the fastest on but i dont think so. I am not familiar with it so i will not write much about it.

5) Glype - This is the script which is the fastest. I dont use it (i dont know why). For me it is the modified version of phproxy because rest of the things are same but use cURL method to grab the site, compare to phproxy, which use fshock open. I am not sure if cURL is already installed on servers i think you have to install it.(i am not sure). It is here in my list because it has a built in theme system and it seems quite nice and easy to use also. Thats all about this one also (I ‘m tired now)

regards.