Sunday, February 15, 2009

Lease or Setup My Own Craigslist Proxy?

When it comes time to look at a Craigslist proxy, you can go about it two ways. These being renting or setting up your own. So when should you rent and when should you setup one? If you find yourself needing a lot of IPs to post a lot of ads on Craigslist each day, looking at setting up your own proxy server would be a good idea. How much is a lot of ads? If you need to post anymore than 30 - 50 ads a day, would be considered heavy and you should look at your own server. Less than this and you should be ok with renting IPs from someone else. Renting IPs from other people is fine, but usually they come at a much higher price compared to setting up your own. If you need to post a lot of ads on Craigslist, look at investing into your own Craigslist proxy instead of renting from someone else. You can save heaps over time.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Is It Possible For Craigslist to Track Craigslist Proxy Activity?

Do you place advertisements on on Craigslist via a Craigslist Proxy? If yes, does Craigslist know just what you are up to? The answer to this is in how anonymous your Craigslist Proxy is. If you are using an exclusive or proxy server for Craigslist that you setup yourself and are the only one with access, most likely what you are doing is completely safe from the prying eyes of Craigslist. However, if you are posting on Craigslist with a free or shared proxy server, then there is a good chance that everything you are doing is completely visible. Free or shared proxy servers typically perform poorly when compared with elite or exclusive proxy servers. The main reason is due to their how anonymous they are and that elite proxy servers typically can not be detetected as a proxy server. The other problem is that shared proxy servers might have many people doing the same thing with the allocated proxy IPs. It isn't a great idea to share IPs with other people who might be doing the samething as you on Craigslist, right? Obviously not. If you are using an elite Craigslist Proxy then you should be safe and anonymous on Craigslist.