Billal Ainaoui
Billal Ainaoui is the founder of HProxy.com. He started it to make honest proxy infrastructure anyone can afford, and he still reads every support message himself. The guides he signs come from the prices, tests and support questions the team works with every day. HProxy sells proxies, so weigh his view with that in mind.
Founder of HProxy.com · 1666 articles
Explainer
Transparent vs anonymous vs elite proxies: proxy anonymity levels, tested
Proxy anonymity levels, tested: the headers that make a proxy transparent, anonymous or elite, a test that shows the leak, and what elite cannot hide.
July 21, 2026 · 12 min read
Comparison
What Happened to AWM Proxy (awmproxy.net)? The Malware Service That Sold Your PC for 13 Years
AWM Proxy sold access to malware-infected PCs as proxies from 2008 until Google sued its operators in 2021. How it worked, who ran it, and the Glupteba link.
July 21, 2026 · 8 min read
Comparison
What Happened to BuyProxies.org? The Old-School Private Proxy Shop, Explained
BuyProxies sold dedicated 'virgin' datacenter proxies at buyproxies.org. What it sold, why the private-proxy era faded, and if it is still worth buying.
July 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Comparison
What Happened to GeoSurf.com? The Enterprise Proxy Pioneer Bright Data Litigated Off the Market
GeoSurf was one of the oldest enterprise residential proxy networks. It lost a patent war to Bright Data and shut down all proxy services on December 20, 2023.
July 21, 2026 · 8 min read
Comparison
What Happened to HighProxies.com? The Private Proxy Seller That Went Quiet
HighProxies sold private, shared, and social media datacenter proxies. What it was, why social-media proxies moved on, and if it is still live.
July 21, 2026 · 4 min read
Comparison
What Happened to LimeProxies.com? The Premium Datacenter Proxy Shop That Went Silent
LimeProxies sold premium dedicated datacenter proxies from 2010, then went quiet. What it was, why it faded, and whether its domain still means anything.
July 21, 2026 · 6 min read
Comparison
What Happened to LuxSocks.ru? The Carding-World SOCKS Market That Vanished
LuxSocks was a Russian SOCKS5 proxy market prized by carders. It went dark in January 2022 in a reported Russian takedown. The story and the buyer lesson.
July 21, 2026 · 7 min read
Comparison
What Happened to ProxyBonanza.com? Still Online, but the Company Behind It Dissolved
ProxyBonanza is a 2010s datacenter proxy veteran still trading today, but its UK company dissolved in 2013 and its tooling froze in 2019. Verify before you trust it.
July 21, 2026 · 7 min read
Comparison
What Happened to RSOCKS.net? The FBI-Dismantled Proxy Botnet, Explained
RSOCKS sold millions of hacked IoT devices as proxies until the FBI and DOJ seized it in June 2022. How it worked, who ran it, and what replaced it.
July 21, 2026 · 7 min read
Comparison
What Happened to Storm Proxies (stormproxies.com)? The Budget Rotating Proxy That Quietly Stopped Evolving
Storm Proxies was the cheap backconnect rotating proxy everyone used around 2016. It never shut down. It stopped evolving, and the market moved past it.
July 21, 2026 · 7 min read
Comparison
What Happened to VIP72.com? The 15-Year Malware Proxy Network That Went Dark
VIP72 sold access to malware-infected PCs as SOCKS proxies for 15 years, then vanished in 2021. Who ran it, how it worked, and the sourcing lesson.
July 21, 2026 · 7 min read
Explainer
What Is CGNAT? Carrier-Grade NAT and Why Strangers Share One IP
CGNAT lets an internet provider share one public IPv4 address among many subscribers. How it works, the 100.64.0.0/10 range, and what it means for proxies.
July 21, 2026 · 9 min read
Comparison
What Happened to 911 S5 (911.re)? The Proxy Botnet, Its Takedown and the Case Today
911 S5 sold residential proxies built on infected PCs: 19 million IPs, by the DOJ. How it worked, how it fell, where the case stands, and how to check a PC.
July 19, 2026 · 8 min read
Comparison
Who Owns Your Proxy Provider? The Tesonet Map Behind Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare, Nord and Surfshark
Many 'independent' proxy and VPN brands trace back to one Lithuanian venture builder, Tesonet, and its founders. Here is the sourced ownership map, and why it matters when you compare providers.
July 19, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
How to Bypass AWS WAF Bot Control With Residential Proxies
AWS WAF Bot Control scores your IP reputation, your TLS (JA3) fingerprint, a JavaScript token that interrogates your browser, and your session behavior. Residential proxies fix the reputation part. The other three signals you bring yourself.
July 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
How to Bypass Fastly Bot Management (Next-Gen WAF) With Residential Proxies
Fastly's Next-Gen WAF, formerly Signal Sciences, scores your IP and NLX reputation, your request signals and rate, and a client-side challenge that fingerprints headless browsers. What residential proxies fix, and what you have to bring yourself.
July 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
How to Bypass reCAPTCHA v3 When Scraping: What the Score Means and What a Proxy Changes
reCAPTCHA v3 shows no puzzle: it scores each request from 0.0 to 1.0 and the site decides. What the score means, what a proxy changes, and the honest routes.
July 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
How to Scrape Past Radware Bot Manager With Residential Proxies
Radware Bot Manager scores your IP and cross-property reputation, a JavaScript Crypto Challenge, a 250-parameter device fingerprint, and your intent through IDBA. What a residential proxy solves there, and what you have to bring yourself.
July 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
How to Solve FunCaptcha (Arkose Labs) in 2026: What It Checks and What a Proxy Changes
FunCaptcha is the puzzle Arkose Labs shows a session it scores as risky. What Arkose reads first, what a default headless browser shows, and what a proxy changes.
July 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Guide
How to Solve GeeTest v4 When Scraping (and Why the Gap Is the Easy Part)
GeeTest v4 scores your behavior, device, and IP, then picks a slide, icon, or gobang challenge by risk. Finding the slider gap is trivial; passing the trajectory and environment checks is the real work.
July 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs Geonode.com: An Honest Comparison (2026)
HProxy vs Geonode on price: HProxy is cheaper at every Geonode tier up to 100 GB, and Geonode's committed-volume rate goes below ours only on its largest tiers.
July 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs Massive (joinmassive.com): Residential Prices, Rollover and the Rules (2026)
HProxy vs Massive (joinmassive.com) on residential proxies: $8 to $4.90 per GB on Massive's plans and $3.20 on enterprise terms against our Lite and Premium, rollover, consent and vetting, sessions, UDP and blocked categories, read October 22, 2026.
July 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs NodeMaven.com: Residential Prices, Rollover Rules and Refunds (2026)
HProxy vs NodeMaven.com on residential proxies: $5.00 to $2.20 per GB on its monthly and pay-as-you-go plans against our Lite and Premium, with rollover rules.
July 18, 2026 · 9 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs PacketStream.io: Residential Prices, the $50 Minimum and the Terms (2026)
HProxy vs PacketStream.io on residential proxies: its $1.00 per GB with a $50 minimum against our Lite and Premium, plus targeting, sessions and refunds.
July 18, 2026 · 7 min read
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Proxies that don't die mid-job
Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, verified by the same engine that runs tens of millions of checks. They read as a real device and hold up under load. Pay as you go, and your balance never expires. $0.44/GB is the 2,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.
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Honest guides and comparisons on proxies, scraping and staying unblocked, from the team that runs the network.