Proxy servers act as intermediaries between the devices that access the Internet and the servers where web resources are stored. Visiting sites without using a proxy is as follows:
With this way of visiting sites, their algorithms know what the IP address (identification number in the network) of the device is. If you use a proxy, the algorithms cannot know your IP and other information. This is possible because at the stage of access to the server the proxy will intercept the access request, replace your IP address with its own, and send the request on its own behalf. Then the proxy will get the answer and display the necessary page on your device. Thus, the proxy acts as an intermediary for "communication" between your PC/phone and the servers you make requests to.
Since the proxy server hides your real IP address, you can access the Internet anonymously. However, this is not the only reason to use proxies in Bulgaria and other countries. Proxies can be useful for work and for finding information on the Internet, such as parsing.
For those who do not know: Parsing is an automated search, collecting information to use for work or personal purposes. For example, you can parses information posted on online bulletin boards and marketplaces. Such information can be useful both for sellers (to analyze competitors' business and develop their sales strategy) and for buyers (to search for all offers of a product/service of interest and choose the most profitable one).
The key feature of parsing is that it is an analysis and collection of a large amount of data, which in such quantity is difficult to find and process manually. To collect this data, you need to visit many sites or pages (if searching within the same site), possibly the same sites/pages even more than once. Frequent accessing of sites or pages can lead to blocking the IP address (because the site's security algorithms will consider it a hacker attack) or to the appearance of captchas, but not all parsers are able to read captchas, so the parsing process can stop. To get rid of these risks you need to connect dynamic proxies. IP-addresses on such proxies will periodically change each other, as a result the limit of hits to the site from one IP will not be exceeded.
There are many proxies with different geographies freely available on the Internet, including Bulgaria proxies. However, it is not safe to use free proxies: their providers do not guarantee the protection of your data and connection reliability. It is possible that the servers found on the network will be unstable. In this case you will spend a lot of time to find a new working proxy. Moreover, owners of such proxy servers can collect information about their clients and share it with third parties or use it for their own dishonest purposes.
To protect yourself from these risks, it is better to buy proxies on special sites, such as us ("Individual IPv4 (foreign)").
If you have any questions, please contact the technical support (located in the bottom right corner of the site), our experts at any time to answer all questions and advise you on prices, payment methods and options to save when renting a proxy.