Is 194.28.224.79:8888 a proxy? Yes, it was.
194.28.224.79:8888 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from Germany on CHSL-ONE. Across 562 checks it answered 4% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last answered August 13, 2026), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
How this one compares
It worked sometimes, for 8 days, and then it stopped.
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 5,274 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 27% of the checks we send it.
4%
of 562 checks answered
Pool median 27%. 194.28.224.79:8888 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.
562
real connection attempts
Each one opens a socket and waits up to 90 seconds. Slow and unreachable look identical if you stop listening early.
8
days from first sighting to last answer
Of the 283,834 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 25 days of us first seeing them.
August 5, 2026
First listed by our sources
Published as a working proxy by 20 of the public lists HProxy tracks. Being listed is a claim, not a test.
August 13, 2026
Stopped answering
It answered our checks for 8 days before it went quiet.
August 16, 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.
September 21, 2026
Most recent re-test
HProxy has opened 562 real connections to this endpoint in total. The sweep reaches every address in the database roughly once every 12 hours.
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 283,834 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 5,274 proxies answering right now.
Continuous monitoring
How HProxy checks 194.28.224.79:8888
HProxy has checked 194.28.224.79:8888 562 times and it answered 22 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
20 public sources published it
194.28.224.79 appears in 20 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 8888: HTTP, alternate
Port 8888 is another common stand-in for port 80, and the default for several debugging and proxy-inspection tools. Seeing it usually says more about the software than about the host.
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 194.28.224.79:8888 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.
562 checks, 22 answered
That is 4% of the time, measured since August 5, 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. 194.28.224.79:8888 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 September 21, 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 194.28.224.79:8888, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- August 5, 2026
- Last checked
- September 21, 2026
- Next check due
- within 12 hours
- Checks run
- 562
- Times it answered
- 22
- Stopped answering
- August 13, 2026
4%
answered 22 of 562 checks
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds no other free proxies on CHSL ONE, and 335 in Germany. 194.28.224.79:8888 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 CHSL-ONE
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 94 addresses on AS210546, which is 0.01% 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 before51%
- Never answered49%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943779,187
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045448,721
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650945,694
- 5M247AS900931,986
- 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,925
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,276
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,281
- AS210546 sits outside the 250 largest networks we hold.
Questions about 194.28.224.79:8888
Is 194.28.224.79:8888 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 13, 2026. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 194.28.224.79 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 562 checks against it and it answered 22 of them, about 4% of the time, over 8 days on our list.
What is the hostname for 194.28.224.79?
194.28.224.79 publishes no reverse DNS record. That is not unusual and it is not suspicious on its own, but it does mean the address volunteers nothing about who runs it, so the network and the check history below are all there is to go on.
Where was 194.28.224.79 hosted?
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, CHSL-ONE (AS210546). 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 CHSL ONE?
None other than 194.28.224.79:8888 at the moment. AS210546 (CHSL ONE) has no other free proxies live in our pool right now, though that changes as we re-verify.
Are there other free proxies in Germany?
Yes, 335 free proxies are exiting from Germany in our pool right now, answering in 1595ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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