How to get a British IP Address

It’s hard to believe, but many of the world’s biggest web sites actively discriminate between people depending on their location. Of course, it’s not called discrimination, they use fancy terms like geo-targeting or geo location instead.  The reality is that accessing the internet from Africa, is very different than that if you’re based in the … Read more

What’s a Proxy Server?

When I first started working in IT a few decades ago, a proxy server was known as an application gateway.  That definition still is fairly accurate in some contexts, but in the world of the internet it sounds a little dated.   In technical terms a proxy server is an application that sits between and … Read more