A Virtual Private Server can work well to set up your own anonymous internet browsing proxy. A VPS can cost as little as $8 a month, which is roughly the same a private proxy or VPN provider would charge you.

Squid is a caching proxy server that can provide enhanced performance for HTTP and FTP. Squid will cache commonly accessed sites so that it can improve performance by 10-20% for Internet connections.

Polipo is a Linux proxy, like squid but it is intended in a personal use, I used to use squid as my personal proxy but because I have a PIV HT processor and 1 Gig of RAM, in Laptop that approach was just to heavy for it.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to set up a Squid Proxy server on Ubuntu 9.04 Server with DansGuardian (for content filtering) and ClamAV (for Virus scanning); in addition, we will set up Web Proxy AutoDetection (WPAD) through DHCP (in this case, the Windows Server 2003 DHCP server) or DNS so that the only configuration necessary on the client side is to check "Auto-detect proxy settings for th

Atlast that too happened. Ban for facebook on the computer lab, Damn proxyserver !! They first blocked youtube, then orkut, then torrents and now it's facebook's turn... Then how do a man live without all this things in such a technically overflooding world?

SafeSquid - Content Filtering Internet Proxy, has many content filtering features that can be used to decide who is allowed what, when and how much on the net. In this tutorial I will describe how to control access to unwanted categories of websites, by using URL Blacklist database with SafeSquid Proxy Server.

If you want to ssh your vps server or your home computer from your work place (assuming you are using http proxy).You need to use Corkscrew.

Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Written by Igor Sysoev in 2005, Nginx now hosts between 1% and 4% of all domains worldwide .Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.

The open source proxy server and accelerator Squid has been around since the mid-1990s, helping speed up Internet traffic at both the user and the server end.