Hello All,
I am searching for a paid proxy service provider but I am not technically good on it. Could you please describe the importance of "threads" (3rd column) and the number of "proxies" (1st column) parameters in proxy server selection.
(Since the company provide monotype "threads" parameter, we can skip it off.)
Let's say, the below one:
Column 1: What is the benefit of having more proxy nodes that will make me think of paying more than $2.99/mo.
Of course, there should be a reason... If the traffic is really unlimited, what makes the service limited? What is the bottleneck?
If I'm understanding this correctly, then the "Proxies" column would list the number of proxy servers you'd have access to, and the "Threads" column details the maximum number of simultaneous connections you could have open to each individual one of those proxy servers. So if this is the provider you want to purchase services from, then you'd want to purchase the package that gave you the level of resources you'd require, but not excessively more than that in order to only spend what you need to spend.
using a public proxy normally only makes sense if you want to bypass country restrictions and/or hide your ip address (bypassing a company proxy is usually not possible by that method). Then you have to take into account that your system normally cannot use proxies dynamically (1). So if you want to change the proxy because it isn't working or the connection to it is blocked somewhere, you have to change it manually on your system, whereby the location of the setting depends on the application used, like apt, curl, browser etc (2). For the browser there are plugins like FoxyProxy for Firefox (handles multiple proxies) or Hoxx VPN Proxy for Chrome (needs an account).
As @drysdalk already mentioned, the Threads column describes the number of connections to the current proxy that can be used at the same time. So if you have a lot of processes running that connect to the proxy, this can be a bottleneck. The number of proxies is not really a bottleneck, it only describes the number of alternatives you have if the current proxy doesn't work for some reason(s) and/or you want to round robin the proxy list.
(1) You could create a local proxy.pac file that selects a random proxy from a list e.g. every 30min. However, that could lead to problems if the proxy changes within an http/s session (I guess, didn't try that out). And it doesn't guarantee that the selected proxy really works.
(2) Screenshot from Kubuntu 22.04/System Settings when selecting manually specified proxy configuration:
