Is 169.255.58.156:8080 a proxy? Yes.
169.255.58.156:8080 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from South Africa. It holds a moderate 60% uptime, and was last checked 1 h ago.
uptime
Other ports on this IP
169.255.58.156 is answering on 2 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 3 of them on 169.255.58.156 and have run 108 checks against them since September 1, 2026. When an address turns up on public lists across this many ports, each port is published as its own entry, so each one gets its own record here.
Best responding ports
Best on this IP is 169.255.58.156:8080 at 59.7% across 77 checks
How this one compares
Reliable enough to sit in the better half of everything we are watching.
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 11,011 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 37% of the checks we send it.
60%
of 77 checks answered
Pool median 37%. 169.255.58.156:8080 is in the better half.
77
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.
2
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 214,021 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 27 days of us first seeing them.
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 214,021 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 11,011 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on Host Africa (Pty) Ltd, and 1,599 in South Africa. 169.255.58.156:8080 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
How many free proxies are on Host Africa (Pty) Ltd
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 8 addresses on AS329184, which is 0.00% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. None of them are answering at the moment, though every one stays in the re-check rotation in case that changes.
- Answered before50%
- Never answered50%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943779,186
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045440,930
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650939,932
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,905
- 6M247AS900917,999
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,270
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,209
- AS329184 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 169.255.58.156:8080 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://169.255.58.156:8080 \
https://api.ipify.org?format=json
Not a terminal person? Pick your device and we walk you through it, nothing assumed.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 169.255.58.156:8080
169.255.58.156:8080 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
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 169.255.58.156:8080 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, which is how we know it spoke HTTP.
77 checks, 46 answered
That is 60% of the time, measured since September 1, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
169.255.58.156:8080 is in the live rotation, so it is re-tested continuously rather than on a daily cycle. If it stops answering it is marked down immediately, and if it stays down for 3 days it moves into the public proxy database with its full record intact. Nothing is deleted at any point.
This endpoint
The record
Everything HProxy holds on 169.255.58.156:8080, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- September 1, 2026
- Last checked
- September 3, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 77
- Times it answered
- 46
- Spoke
- HTTP
60%
answered 46 of 77 checks
Questions about 169.255.58.156:8080
Is 169.255.58.156:8080 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 169.255.58.156:8080 answered HProxy's automated check 1 h ago and is in the live free proxy pool as we publish this page. It is re-tested every few minutes, so open this page again for its current state rather than trusting a copy of it.
What kind of proxy is 169.255.58.156?
It speaks HTTP. The port is 8080. Point your client at 169.255.58.156:8080 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 169.255.58.156 located?
Traffic through it exits from South Africa, on Host Africa (Pty) Ltd (AS329184). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How reliable has 169.255.58.156:8080 been?
Across 3 days of tracking it answered 60% of our checks. The chart on this page shows every day we have recorded for it, including the days it was down.
Is it safe to use 169.255.58.156:8080?
Treat it the way you would any public proxy: it is operated by someone we have no relationship with, it is shared with strangers, and anything you send unencrypted over it can be read. Fine for a quick geo check or a scrape of public data, never for logins, payments or anything private.
How many free proxies are on Host Africa (Pty) Ltd?
None other than 169.255.58.156:8080 at the moment. AS329184 (Host Africa (Pty) Ltd) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.
Are there other free proxies in South Africa?
Yes, 1,599 free proxies are exiting from South Africa in our pool right now, answering in 781ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
Where to go next
Upgrade to the paid network
Free proxies fail. This is what that looks like.
169.255.58.156:8080 answers 60% of the time, and that is ordinary for a public proxy. Nothing here is a service anybody sells you, which is why the numbers swing and why the list turns over constantly.
Other live free proxies
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13.245.161.189:43046
SOCKS4 · South Africa · 74% · 448ms
13.244.203.188:44539
SOCKS4 · South Africa · 10% · 449ms
13.244.61.193:3008
SOCKS4 · South Africa · 75% · 460ms
13.245.171.157:57018
HTTPS · South Africa · 13% · 461ms
13.245.183.150:33715
SOCKS4 · South Africa · 54% · 470ms
16.28.29.244:12267
HTTPS · South Africa · 16% · 470ms
About this list & IP removal
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.