What makes a great web proxy?

Very few reliable web hosts allow proxy hosting. I'd estimate this to a very small percentage of all the web hosts. The main reasons for this are:

1) Proxies use a lot of bandwidth so if a web host oversells his bandwidth (a usual practice amongst web hosts) they are in trouble.
2)Proxies are CPU and RAM intensive, i.e. they use lots of these resources. Web hosts running proxies and other types of websites on their servers will find that non-proxy websites are disadvantaged. Servers running proxies cannot be oversold in terms or RAM or CPU, otherwise downtime will follow

In others words, proxy hosting is not for all web hosts. The servers used must be powerful enough to handle the load and the web host must not oversell bandwidth, CPU or RAM.

You will usually find proxy hosts operating as resellers of large web hosting companies. Unfortunately these run on an amateur basis and usually go bust in a few weeks or months.

Kiloserve is a company with its own Data Center in California, owning all its equipment. Since we offer a huge range of services ranging from Shared Hosting to VPS and Dedicated, you can start with a budget plan and expnad your operations as you wish.