How Can I Hide My IP Address?

Hiding  IP address from external environment is a security measure that every internet user should follow these days. And the most adapted method to hide our IP address is to using a proxy server.

You can use Proxy sever in one form or the another. We can define proxy server as the computer that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers or the computer that offers acomputer network service to allow clients to make indirect network connections to other network services. This server acts as a gateway to the network whose sole function is to hide the network address that is being used in the inside network from the internet. The scenario is like that a client connects to the proxy server and then requests server for services whether it be a file, or other resource available on the network. The proxy server then responds to its client and provide the resource by connecting to the specified server holding that particular service. The role of cache cant be ignored when we talk about the proxy server it also help a lot to its client by serving services from its cache. In some cases, the proxy may alter the client’s request or the server’s response for various purposes.

Basically Proxy server can be used in the following ways:-

Website Based Proxy Servers:

A Website based proxy server is a website allows you to enter the URL of a website that you wish to anonymously visit. After you submit the form to the the website based proxy server it will makes a request for the page that you want to visit. Now lets see how this works, here the proxy machine does not identify itself as a proxy server and wont pass your IP address in the page that you requested. Besides this these sites have few additional features such as ad blocking, javascript blocking, etc. Actually this is a service which you can find free somewhere and in some cases you have to pay for it.

Here is an example of a website based proxy server.

• Proxify.com

Browser Configured Proxy Servers:

This concept of proxy server allows you to configure your browser to route your traffic only via. that machine which will make a request for a page on your behalf. This means it will convert your request to its own then forwards you the results. Since they are accessible to the public these are often quite slow.

There are a varieties of browser configured proxy servers they are:

• Transparent Proxy
• Anonymous Proxy
• Distorting Proxy
• High Anonymity Proxy

Installed Software Proxy Servers:

This is the most reliable proxy service than the above mentioned type. You can find many companies andsoftware packages available at either a onetime cost or at an annual subscription. These are usually faster than the other proxy servers.