Proxy server

/pɹˈɒksi sˈɜːvə/

/pɹˈɑːksi sˈɜːvɚ/

Proxy server

*** ‌a server that exists between somebody's personal computer and the internet to provide some services for the user and/or to prevent them from reaching information, websites, etc. without permission

Examples

1. And then, in between, whenever they could find access to a proxy server, they did.

2. She goes, "And we need to use a special proxy server to send these files."

3. Instead, it responds with the IP of a proxy server that is in the region you're trying to access it from and all of your traffic reroutes through that, just like how a VPN works.

4. The difference is that a VPN routes all of your traffic through the selected proxy server and all of the good ones, encrypt your data to make it more difficult for your internet service provider to track what you're doing.