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UK Proxy Server
Through our proxy portal web at ukproxyserver.co.uk Scothosts is pleased to offer a subscription service for accessing our UK based proxy server.
What is a proxy?
A UK Proxy Server is a machine that sits between your computer and the web server whose pages you are accessing. It holds an archive (called a 'cache') of the most popular recently accessed pages. These can then be served to your computer far more quickly than if they had been requested from the original web server.
Proxy systems are designed to speed up file requests, reduce international bandwidth requirements, and ease the load on web and FTP servers by only requesting updated or new files that they do not already have in store.
Our Proxy Server is located in the United Kingdom and will allow international users to access the internet with a UK based IP address.
Why would I want to use a proxy?
In summary, the benefits you will notice are:
- Significant speed increases when accessing more popular documents.
- British individuals located outside of the UK, can access the internet in the same way as they would at home without any international IP restrictions.
- Overloaded sites will still be accessible to you - since they are likely to be available from the Proxy.
- It helps speed up your access to the Internet as a whole - the more people who use the Proxies, the less bandwidth is consumed.
There are lots of free proxies available, why would I want to subscribe?
The main features of our service are reliability, compatibility, support and privacy.
Reliability
Free proxies are very common but generally you will not know anything about the company that owns the proxy, nor what they might do with the information you submit to their server (see privacy below). Furthermore free proxy servers also tend to allow only a limited number of connections, which tend to make them an unreliable option.
Compatibility
The owners of free proxy servers tend to configure them with a diverse range of technical components and may well find your access to certain web sites and protocols is restricted.
Our server has been configured specifically to allow access to common websites and internet resources, such as: Betfair, MSN, Skype, Ebay, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, Friendster, Bebo, BBC iPlayer, ITV Catchup, 4OD, Demand FIVE, Sky Sports, Setanta Sport and many more. Our service is also compatible with several web browsers, inlcuding Internet Exporer and Firefox.
Support
We appreciate that not everyone has the technical knowledge to configure a proxy server on their computer and we also understand the time critical nature of the internet and its global importance.
We therefore offer 24 hour telephone and email assistance to all of our subscribers.
Privacy
Our aim is to provide you with all basic tools to secure your future internet experience. Many of today's web users are unaware that computers and the internet invade their privacy. Gathering information about computer users is a conscious decision of ISP’s, system/software developers and webmasters. By using cookie and spyware they are grabbing your e-mail address, personal information, IP address usage, browsing trends, usernames/passwords etc.
Do not forget that the privacy is your right and nobody has right to take that away from you. Our proxy service makes your web browsing experience private and takes the power away from your ISP. This is particularly important to British users when outside the UK, as the practices and policies of international ISP’s are largely unknown and inconsistent.
Please visit our proxy portal web at ukproxyserver.co.uk for more information.