Due to a high volume of traffic, I have decided to take down and completely remove the proxy (proxy.its-alive.org) from the webserver. The project was an important piece of work to me because it taught me how to work with very sensitive code. Unfortunately, with a high volume of traffic which I was receiving from it on a daily basis, I had to take it down. The proxy was not designed to work well with my webserver; when a request was sent from the proxy to a website, if the website was offline, the proxy would stall and the process would slow down other parts of my webserver until it returned with a response from the website being requested. I have been having problems loading pages on the webserver for a couple of months now, and I just realized lately that it was because of the proxy.

I apologize for the inconvenience. You can find many servers dedicated towards proxying at Proxy.org.

Happy New Year!

Posted by zachera on January 1, 2010 at 05:52:50 PM - Permalink - Back to News