This is the second post on how to optimize your proxy bandwidth. A few weeks ago I posted A Blacklist file to block advertisement and I did mention that I will discuss the other 2 points. So this is the second post discussing the second point which is how to block certain countries which is known as bad traffic countries by blocking their IP addresses.

Based on my experience and many other have shared in multiple forums, certain countries such as China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Ghana, Turkey, Romania, Lebanon, Russia, Pakistan and Vietnam are considered to be bad traffic countries. A few of many reasons are that they use a gigantic amount of bandwidth to access porn and warez sites and secondly advertising companies such as adsense pay really small to zero commission perclick from those countries. So there’s no points for us proxy webmasters to let them accessing and wasting our bandwidth.

The question is, how can we block them? Actually there are many solutions to this matter, paid and free services are available in the net. The easiest solution is to put a range of IPs used by those countries in your glype proxy’s ban setting. This is the built-in feature in glype proxy script which can be accessed easily through its admin control panel. Here’s what you need to do:
# Download the IP BAN list at the end of this post

# Open it using your favourite text editor

# Select all and paste it in IP Ban column at Glype proxy admin panel (See Screen Shot)

# Save changes

# And you are good to go.

Here’s the download link: IP Ban File

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