Proxy servers are a safe and reliable way to bypass network filters and firewalls and access desired websites from blocked or restricted locations. They facilitate browsing the internet, downloading games and news, accessing online social networking websites and shopping sites, chatting, sharing videos, music and a lot more.

A lot of schools, universities and organizations have blocked websites like Myspace, Hi5 and Facebook to be accessed from their locations to restrict people from logging in to these websites. But advanced technology hands developed proxy servers which enable the users to access these websites from such restricted locations

Proxies let the users surf the website from the blocked location like school, university library or an organization without revealing your personal information. They keep you safe and secure by maintaining your privacy and protect your computer from virus, spyware and any other malicious script.

When you access a website from the proxy server site, information like your browser type, location, operating system and IP address is eliminated and the proxy server website is recorded as the accessing computer instead of your computer.

The process is very simple and convenient. You are not required to install or download any software to browse the blocked sites. All you have to do is type the desired URL (for example: www.facebook.com) on the main page and all connections and traffic to and from the destination URL is redirected via the proxy, making it look as if the traffic is evolving from the main proxy, thus bypassing the domain based URL filtering blocking system.

When you use a proxy server, your computer establishes connection with the proxy instead of the destination website, and thus the blocking or filtering firewall will be able to trace this connection only. Further this proxy server, which may be transparent or anonymous, will create a connection to the desired URL which you want to access such as Facebook.com, and retrieve that website, eliminating any trace of your computer

The proxies allow users to browse through the Facebook website, profiles, post comments, blogs and surf the site for music. Sometimes, you may be required to use the IP address of the proxy (i.e. http://200.10.10.12), instead of the domain name. The development of proxy servers has overcome the technical barriers of not being able to access websites from restricted locations and the users can easily access websites like Facebook.com and others.