I often get the question of how much it will cost to startup a proxy. Here I will give you a rough estimate.

I use WDservers.com and that who I recommend. So I am going to give you the costs based on if you use them. At the time of this writing (April 2008) this is roughly what the costs would be.

  • Domain names - $6 (2 domain names - .info’s from Godaddy.com)
  • Hosting for 2 months - $60 (2 months of the VPS 256 plan)

Total Cost roughly $66 to startup. I say that becuase I figure that if you ran 2 proxies, and just worked on them that would probably get you buy. As for hosting most companies pay net 30 so you should get a check from the first month, by the end of the second month or shortly thereafter. Now this is what I would call real basic startup.

Ideally I would launch a new proxy every week and would need to upgrade to the VPS 512 by the second month. In which case your costs would look like this:

Domain names - $24 (8 .infos @ 2.99 each from Godaddy)

Hosting - $90 (first month at $30 and second at $60)

Also depending on how fast you grow you might not make enough from the first month to cover the third so you might need a little extra.  Also that assumes that you cross the threshold for the minimum payout.  So its all somewhat subjective, but likely if you can accelerate fast enough to need to upgrade your hosting for the second month, then you can shortly pay for all your costs from your proxies.

Thanks for visiting!


This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 3:18 am and is filed under Proxy.