Is 158.69.49.179:8080 a proxy? Yes, it was.
158.69.49.179:8080 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from Canada on OVH. Across 738 checks it answered 27% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered August 20, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
CanadaHow this one compares
It was one of the good ones, for 43 days.
Every free proxy list quotes an uptime figure. Almost none of them tell you what a normal one looks like, so here is ours: across the 3,605 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 14.6% of the checks we send it.
27%
of 738 checks answered
Pool median 14.6%. 158.69.49.179:8080 is in the better half.
738
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.
43
days from first sighting to last answer
Of the 196,722 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.
July 8, 2026
First listed by our sources
Published as a working proxy by 39 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.
August 20, 2026
Stopped answering
It answered our checks for 43 days before it went quiet.
August 23, 2026
Moved to the permanent record
It left the live pool here. Nothing is deleted: the address keeps this page and stays in the re-check rotation.
What normal looks like
Every number above is measured against these two.
A percentage on a proxy list means nothing without the shape of the thing it came from. These are the two distributions the rest of this page compares against, drawn from HProxy's own checks rather than from anybody's marketing page.
How long one lasts
Days from the first time we saw an address to the last time it answered, across 196,722 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 3,605 proxies answering right now.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 158.69.49.179:8080
HProxy has checked 158.69.49.179:8080 738 times and it answered 200 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
39 public sources published it
158.69.49.179 appears in 39 of the public proxy sources HProxy tracks. Lists copy from each other constantly, so an address showing up in many of them says a lot about how widely it was republished and very little about whether it ever worked.
Port 8080: HTTP, alternate
Port 8080 is the most common proxy port on the internet. It stands in for port 80, and unlike port 80 any program can open it without administrator rights. That single detail is why so much ends up here, the deliberate and the accidental alike.
Every check is a real connection
HProxy does not read this address off somebody else's list and pass it on. Each check opens a real connection to 158.69.49.179:8080 and gives it up to 90 seconds to answer. Slow is not the same as unreachable, and plenty of working proxies take half a minute to reply. Anything that does not answer in that budget counts as a failure and is recorded as one, which is why the percentage on this page moves rather than sitting at a marketing number. The handshake is attempted across HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, so a proxy is never missed because we guessed the wrong protocol.
738 checks, 200 answered
That is 27% of the time, measured since July 8, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
We are still watching for it to come back
Being archived does not stop the testing. 158.69.49.179:8080 answered before, so it is exactly the kind of address that can return, and the sweep works through the whole database and reaches every address roughly once every 12 hours. Its last check was on August 23, 2026, so the next one is due within a day of that. The moment it answers again it is promoted straight back into the live free proxy list, automatically, with no manual step.
This endpoint
The record
Everything HProxy holds on 158.69.49.179:8080, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- July 8, 2026
- Last checked
- August 23, 2026
- Next check due
- within 12 hours
- Checks run
- 738
- Times it answered
- 200
- Stopped answering
- August 20, 2026
27%
answered 200 of 738 checks
Live free proxies right now
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 34 other free proxies on OVH, and 1,455 in Canada. 158.69.49.179:8080 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
OVH is the 18th largest source of free proxies we have ever measured.
Open proxies cluster rather than spreading evenly across the internet. Hosting providers and cloud platforms run enormous numbers of near-identical servers, so a handful of networks end up carrying a disproportionate share of every public proxy list, including ours. HProxy tracks 3,313 addresses on AS16276, which is 0.55% of every address in the database and a meaningful pocket of the database. That makes it the 18th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 34 of them are answering right now, so if this particular address is not usable, the network is a reasonable place to look for one that is.
- Answering now1%
- Answered before13%
- Never answered86%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,266
- 2Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650930,901
- 3Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,187
- 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045419,475
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,142
- 6Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510211,730
- 7GloboTech CommunicationsAS3666611,542
- 8ChinanetAS41348,437
9 networks between
18OVHAS162763,313
Questions about 158.69.49.179:8080
Is 158.69.49.179:8080 a working proxy?
No, not any more. It was a working public proxy in HProxy's free pool and has since gone dark, last answering on August 20, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 158.69.49.179 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 738 checks against it and it answered 200 of them, about 27% of the time, over 43 days on our list.
What is the hostname for 158.69.49.179?
Its reverse DNS record is vps-0a63e54e.vps.ovh.ca. That is what the address itself publishes about who operates it, which is often more telling than the network name: hosting providers name their machines by region and instance type, and a residential line usually carries its ISP's own pattern.
Where was 158.69.49.179 hosted?
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, OVH (AS16276). It is a datacenter address, not a home connection.
Why keep a page for an address that no longer works?
Because "was this address ever a proxy, and when" is a real question. If you are looking at this IP in a firewall log or an abuse report, the dates and the check counts here are the answer. HProxy's public proxy IP list keeps every address it has ever tracked and carries on re-testing them, so deleting this record would throw all of that away.
How many free proxies are on OVH?
34 other free proxies are live on OVH (AS16276) in our pool right now, alongside 158.69.49.179:8080. Networks that host one open proxy usually host several, which is why the whole AS is worth browsing rather than just this address.
Are there other free proxies in Canada?
Yes, 1,455 free proxies are exiting from Canada in our pool right now, answering in 485ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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Every proxy here is aggregated from publicly available sources. We do not scan or collect these IP addresses ourselves: we verify entries that are already public (live status, latency, uptime) and store nothing else about the devices behind them. The list is provided as-is, with no warranty, for lawful use only, on the basis of our legitimate interest in a free, transparent proxy directory (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Never route passwords or sensitive data through a public proxy. If an IP address is yours and you'd like it removed, email legal@hproxy.com and we'll take it down (Art. 21 GDPR). Full details on the report abuse page.