Any who read my book will know that I started out with phpproxy. I know more about phpproxy then any other script, and thus it is the script I recommended in my book. Since I published my book phpproxy has been discontinued. You can still find programmers that write addons for it, but its becoming harder to do so with no new versions coming out.

Now you can read my previous post for earnings in Dec. I am no big player by any means, so for me $1450 in one month is a very nice income. It has taken a lot of work to get there too. Thus I am reluctant to just jump to some other script or anything that could compromise what I have. None the less I realize that if you continue to do the same things you have always done, you will get the same things you have always gotten. Thus if you want to make more money you are always going to have to be changing and growing. After researching the major scripts out there I decided that glype would probably be the best alternative for me to try. So I created a test site for glype. Added a nice theme and played around with things. After a little work Glype was up and running. After a little bit more work I had my ads inserted. I then decided I wanted to see glype go beyond my current script setup, so I purchased a plugin for $5 from someone on DP to make glype work with Youtube. A little more editing and research and youtube started working. So here are my thoughts:

  • Overall glype is very easy to setup. Changing themes is as easy as wordpress, which I like. Adding ad code is easier then wordpress IMO, so pretty easy. Adding plugins is super easy, just upload and your done. My youtube plugin worked out of the box, but only with videos 3 minutes and less. I edited it little bit and now it works upto 10 mins, but I wrote eactly what I did in the post on DP where it is being sold.
  • Funtionally Glype is faster then my heavily modified version of phpproxy. Since my phpproxy has about $200 worth of optimizations and modifications, the fact that glype beat it out of the box is impressive.
  • Another reason Glype attracted me is the fact that it supports myspace out of the box. It cost me $50 for phpproxy to make it work with myspace. Grant it the $50 script still has a few small advantages that glype doesnt support with myspace, but largely its functional. And it didnt cost me a dime. ;)
  • The fact that Nick (glype’s author) is still developing Glype and improving it is also a MAJOR plus.
  • So speed and funtionality that outperform phpproxy out of the box, support for myspace out of the box, plugins availiable to expand it even more, and inexpensively at that, ease of use, and best of all the fact that its FREE make glype a script I would recommend.

If you would like to try out glype, head over to

http://www.glype.com

You can also sign up for his newsletter to receive updates and if you would like to show your appreciation you can purchase a license for glype (the license even lets you remove the link at the bottom of the page)

I am not totally giving up on phpproxy as I have so much invested in it, but certainly if I was just starting up I would use glype. For now I am going to use both.

Thanks for visiting!


This entry was posted on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 at 10:17 pm and is filed under Proxy.