A proxy server is the link between users and the Internet. Proxy server – a server that is constantly on the Web, transmitting all user computer requests to the network, and sends the received responses back.
The proxy server of your Internet service provider significantly speeds up your Internet experience. Why is this happening? Yes, because it is not uncommon for a large number of different clients of the same provider to use the same sources. Certain files, sites can be uploaded by other people, and is located in a temporary storage (cache), so the page loads much faster from a proxy server than from an Internet server.
Certain proxy servers make it possible to hide your IP address, thereby giving you the opportunity to visit sites incognito, access FTP archives. Continue reading →