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Build Your Own Elite Proxy Server, or Hire a Proxy Coder?
By Mishio Tsenaka of Tsenaka Group
For several years in the very recent past, this question of how to go about setting up your own private proxy server was much easier to answer. It generally boiled down to (as with most endeavors) a question of time & effort versus time & money. I've always been the sort of person that wanted to do everything myself. For example, when I took my daughter shopping for a bed for college, I was so disgusted by the price for such cheap junk that I just built one for her myself. Let me tell you real quick how that turned out. It's a phenomenal bed, sturdy as hell and definitely of much higher quality than the chincy junk we looked at. So far so good, but there's a flip-side to this story that I don't tell nearly as often. That bed took me a touch over thirty (30) hours to build, and ended up costing me close to twice as much for all the materials. So lets do some quick math. At my cheapest hourly rate building proxy servers, I make $50/hr.. So 30 hours times $50 is already $1,500; plus the $217 for materials makes it $1,717 I spent building that bed, instead of just paying the $150 bucks and being done with it. Now I really enjoy building stuff, and that really was a great bed I built, and I am proud of the quality. So we can probably knock a few of those dollars off and call them personal entertainment expenses, but even if we cut it in half, I still ended up paying close to six times more by building that bed instead of just buying one. Okay so what's the point (I thought this was about elite proxy servers)? The point is this. It used to cost a small fortune to hire a coder to build a private elite proxy server (I know because I am that coder). Or alternately, for about twenty bucks (and a few hours of work) using my instruction manual, a person could learn to build the private elite proxy server themselves. So the choice to build it yourself or hire a proxy coder was simple: $20 bucks for the instructions and code, and then about $150 worth of your time to actually learn it and build it equals roughly $170. Simple; do it yourself right? Well this particular coder has thrown a giant wrench into the works, and as a result, the above answer isn't quite so easily determined. As I often do with most of my woodworking projects, I built myself a jig that allows me to build proxy servers much more quickly than I ever used to be able to (by the way, a jig is a common woodworking term that basically just means "a template"). And as a result of my new proxy server jig; I was able to lower my coding rates by a substantial amount. I'm now able to charge a base rate of just $100 for a single proxy server set up with a single clean IP address. So compared to the roughly $170 to do it yourself, this question of whether to hire a coder to do it for you becomes much more interesting; especially if you need more than one. And by the way; my daughter loved that bed, and still uses it to this day, but I'd gladly pay that whole amount over again to avoid having to move that damned thing all the time. In my woodworking shop, "sturdy" often translates into "really really heavy". Mishio Tsenaka
http://Elite-Proxy-Server.com
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Contributor's Note
The woodworking analogy may not be a great example because I love my hobbies (woodworking, pottery, blacksmithing) and so it's a bit of a stretch to chalk up time spend on such endeavors as an expense, but I think you get the gist. Even if you can do something yourself, sometimes it makes more sense to farm it out, thus freeing you up to use your time most efficiently.
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Victor,
I see you are still alive and cookin'. I really like your writing style. Hey, why did you stop communicating with your 'first internet friend'? Just curious. Dina (real name) haha
Awesome that your daughter had a sturdy bed in college, I bet it didn't even creak.
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