With the recent blockage of youtube.com, which has thus far last nearly two weeks, many of the residents and visitors of Turkey have been unable to access this very popular site. Thankfully, administrators at freeproxies.org were able to handle the massive influx of Turkish visitors looking to access youtube.com any way that they could.

In just one short week, access to youtube.com from Turkish visitors has more than doubled our total traffic and more than tripled our total bandwidth usage. Whereas youtube support typically peaks our usage at about 150 megabits per second, in recent days it has been using over 800 megabits per second. Luckily our servers and our service provider have been up to the task to ramp up our service very quickly. This, combined with spare capacity we had on hand to deal with such an event, have led to the site running more or less as expected, despite serving over 25 youtube videos per second during peak hours.

As others have reported,  censorship on the internet is not possible the same way it had been with older forms of media. Thanks to proxy sites like beatfiltering.com and vtunnel.com, and proxy lists like freeproxies.org and proxy.org, web visitors can quickly circumvent any attempted blockages with ease. With google having recently removed the videos that caused Turkey to decide to block youtube in the first place, it is expected that access to the site will be restored soon. In the likely case that Turkey or another country decides to block access to this or another site again, freeproxies will be here to help those affected.

Because SSL websites are very hard to block, SSL Access to Vtunnel.com has always been popular, and now makes up about 50% of traffic to that site.

In case Vtunnel.com is blocked anyway, however, we now offer SSL access to several other web based proxies that we host:

https://www.btunnel.com
https://www.ctunnel.com
https://www.dtunnel.com
https://www.vtunnel.com
https://www.ztunnel.com
https://www.polysolve.com
https://www.beatfiltering.com

Enjoy!

There were no weird problems when enabling javascript support, so I’ve decided to extend this to all the proxies hosted by freeproxies.org. Enjoy!

It’s been a long time coming, but, now Vtunnel.com supports javascript.

As some of you may know, I’ve been at the forefront of the proxy industry, starting with a base of CGI Proxy, and working from there to add advanced features that improve the user experience. Unfortunately, some of these features have been at odds with implementing the javascript support that comes ready to go in CGI Proxy.

I have now come up with a solution that allows javascript to work, so long as html obfuscation is disabled. So, now you can enable javascripts on websites like myspace that benefit greatly from that, and, when javascripts are disabled, still enjoy the enhanced unblock protection allowed by html obfuscation.

If all goes well with javascript support in vtunnel, I will enable support on all the other proxies I host as well. Enjoy!