Question involving Proxies, Domestic Servers and Bandwidth???

[Monorail]

Hey guys,
I was wondering if you got a New Zealand based private server and installed a proxy on it, would companies who use it get charged domestic or international data for using it to access international sites. I was thinking because the proxy accesses the international data, and the company just accesses the proxy it will only cost the domestic traffic, which is free in this case. Any major flaws in my thinking? With business broadband accounts sometimes being charged heaps extra per gb over their limit i thought it might be worth considering.
Thanks,
Matt

[Deviant]

Nice idea, however the proxy server will then get stung for the costs. Some people have put one massive plan on one connection then proxied into it with all their other DSL connections, bringing the traffic at those other places under free national traffic.

However the main connection where the proxy server is has to pay for their traffic still.

[Monorail]

but even private servers with places like webfarm have 10-20gb of bandwidth for $179 a month and with some places being stung with $200 per gb cap excess it seems worth it

[Deviant]

There'll be ways they make you pay for it. I've seen one colleague think he could get free national traffic from house A, while computer B had a business plan with cheaper data at the office.

It wasn't worth it in the long run.

The prices you mentioned are pretty high though, check it out but read up on it, because if it's coming from overseas to you, you'll be billed for it eventually. If you've found a loophole, next billing cycle they'll be on to you.

[blairh]

Yeah sounds like it would work fine. I've done a similar thing on a smaller scale back in the days when int'l bandwidth was really bad and I had access to a server with a good pipe connection... you get lots of other issues once you're behind a proxy though... really depends how much you're going to save, if it's gonna be worth it for your particular setup.