was this a holiday in other countries?

Hi,

just checking my stats from yesterday, was this a holiday for countries like US, CA, UK?

I mean the kids are off school yesterday?

 I dont know but I think alot of proxy traffic comes from kids in school in the USA. I know when my cousion is in his computer class he is not doing his work lol.

but wasn't the kids free from school yesterday?

Yeah no school yesterday =). I take it your traffic took a hit?

nope,

no school = less traffic

Thats what I mean less traffic because of no school. The bad thing is I think 2 weeks no school for the next 3 months. That kind of scares me just getting into the proxy business. I hope it dosent take long to at least cover the server expense.

if you block traffic from "several" countries you still have enough earnings from Adsense :)

Did you ever get around to writing that guide on how to block traffic and just keep usa, uk and Ca?

start here:
http://www.webdigity.com/index.php/topic,6636.0.free+PHProxy+templates.html

I hope to write the tutorial the next days

Yesterday was one of the biggest Orthodox celebrations (for the Holy Spirit) so I guess we loosed traffic mostly from orthodox Christian countries.

why the need to block traffic?

there is a lot of traffic from the middle east from users surfing porn, this is very expensive in bandwidth and the earnings on ads are very low.

if you block your site for using a proxy the ads and links are still active (try yourproxy dot eu)

what do you mean?

He means that the proxy is not working (visitor can't visit a site using the proxy) but still the advertisements are visible

yeah. i tried the url olaf gave me. i think my country is blocked from using the proxy service too.

actually its my first time to visit a proxy site and im denied the service. LOL

Use a proxy to visit his proxy then :P

he he he...

that doesn't work :D (hot link protection)

Nick, check one of my my proxies and the arcade site in 3 hours (rush hour) and notice how fast both websites are with 7 proxies on one server ;)

Yeah I've noticed this before. Your new server is very fast.

i pretended to come from switzerland using an anonymous proxy server and i was able to use it.

do you have the URL from the other proxy?

195.65.93.88

OK I see you configured your browser with a proxy, Ok that might work visiting my proxy with another web proxy should not work

ok. anyway lets just keep this secret to ourselves then. i wont tell if you wont...

It was a bank holiday in the UK, it was Whitsun holiday for many countries and for Americans it was Memorial day