Proxy Sites - What Are They

Proxy Sites - What Are They
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Karl_Amerson]Karl Amerson

Have you heard the words proxy server or proxy site? If you have, but you do not know what it means you will want to read on. I confess to being a little ignorant in the world of online websites and proxy sites. You see I may be handy at finding things, but that doesn’t mean I understand how it all works. So first of all to understand what a proxy site is you need to know what they are.

A proxy site or server allows you to surf the Internet with a buffer. In other words the proxy server will hide your IP address while providing you with information. Often a proxy server will help you download pages quicker or files with more speed. This is helpful if you like to download music, movies, or other files to your computer and want to remain safe.

Proxy sites are often where you can locate these proxy servers. If you are interested in finding a proxy site you just need to search for them with a search engine. Google or even Yahoo! can point you towards proxy sites. The proxy sites allow you to find a proxy server that will help you remain anonymous online while you are downloading your files.

The benefit of course is the faster speed you can get your downloads. When you spend hours online finding music to download to your phone or MP3 player you want to know that your files are being downloaded as fast as possible. Other reasons or benefits for using proxy sites is the hidden IP address. You can search online while making it difficult for hackers to infiltrate you computer with viruses or other damaging things. Proxy sites have been created to protect you and make downloads move at a better pace. You probably didn’t even know you where using a proxy site when you downloaded music and it gives you two or three places to download from.

Written by Karl Amerson. Find the latest [http://www.proxycatalog.com/]proxy directory as well as a [http://www.proxycatalog.com/blog/]proxy sites blog.

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