Uses of Proxy Servers | Advantages of proxy servers | disadvantages of proxy servers

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Uses of proxy.
                 There are many reasons to use proxy servers in organizations and universities.
To control internet usage of employees.
                 Organizations set up proxy servers to control and monitor how their employees use the internet. Most organizations don’t want you looking at specific websites on company time, and they can configure the proxy server to deny access to specific sites, instead redirecting you with a nice note asking you to refrain from looking at said sites on the company network. They can also monitor and log all web requests, so even though they might not block the site, they know how much time you spend cyber loafing.

Bandwidth savings and improved speeds.
                 Organizations can also get better overall network performance with a good proxy server. Proxy servers can cache (save a copy of the website locally) popular websites – so when you ask for www.varonis.com, the proxy server will check to see if it has the most recent copy of the site, and then send you the saved copy. What this means is that when hundreds of people hit www.varonis.com at the same time from the same proxy server, the proxy server only sends one request to varonis.com. This saves bandwidth for the company and improves the network performance.

Privacy benefits.
                Individuals and organizations alike use proxy servers to browse the internet more privately. Some proxy servers will change the IP address and other identifying information the web request contains. This means the destination server doesn’t know who actually made the original request, which helps keeps your personal information and browsing habits more private.

Improved security.
               Proxy servers provide security benefits on top of the privacy benefits. You can configure your proxy server to encrypt your web requests to keep prying eyes from reading your transactions. You can also prevent known malware sites from any access through the proxy server. Additionally, organizations can couple their proxy server with a Virtual Private Network (VPN), so remote users always access the internet through the company proxy.

Get access to blocked resources.
              Proxy servers allow users to circumvent content restrictions imposed by companies or governments. Is the local sports ball team’s game blacked out online? Log into a proxy server on the other side of the country and watch from there. The proxy server makes it look like you are in California, but you actually live in North Carolina. Several governments around the world closely monitor and restrict access to the internet, and proxy servers offer their citizens access to an uncensored internet.

Advantages of Proxy.
             There are lots of advantages in using a proxy server.
Protects from Hacking.
             Proxy server helps the clients to protect their important information from getting hacked by hackers.
Bypass Blocked Website.
             A proxy server is also used in bypassing blocked websites. It happens many a time that in some offices or schools or in any organizations they blocked some of the websites for their own reasons. Many websites have some country restrictions. In those cases, if you want to access those websites, the proxy server will help you in doing that.
Enhance Security Level.
            The proxy server is also used to enhance the security and privacy level of the client’s device while doing surfing using different proxies.
Speed up Access.
             Proxy server many times used for speeding up the browsing and access data, because of their good cache system.
Disadvantages of Proxy.
               If it has benefits. It also has some disadvantages.
Free Proxy Server.
              The cache system of the proxy server is very good and active, in many cases, it may happen that your passwords, or your browser websites or any secured data can easily be looked by the proxy service provider. So it is advisable to go for a dedicated or paid one.
Encrypted Network.
              It happened many times, although using the encrypted connections or network, your data or information can be leaked using the technique of TLS and SSL encrypted connections.
Offensive Websites.
             With the help of proxy server any blocked websites can be accessed. So it is found many times that any blocked and offensive websites which are not good for students are being accessed.