Unfortunately, all characteristics of Shadowsocks (SS) and ShadowsocksR (SSR) have been fully and absolutely identified and controlled by GFW ("thanks to" the forced compromise from their developers). In short, as long as the GFW wants to block your VPS, it can now do this easily and perfectly in less than 30 seconds. If you find that your SS/SSR is still working well, that means GFW has no interest or there is no need to ban you right now. Of course, each blocking cycle of GFW is about 10 weeks. Therefore, we can roughly calculate when our VPS can be unblocked.

CCProxy is a user-friendly, powerful and popular multi-account proxy server software developed by Youngzsoft from China, primarily used for Internet sharing and online behavior monitoring within the local area network (LAN). Even for users who are not very familiar with accessing the Internet via proxy, they can still use CCProxy to set up their own proxy server in a few minutes. For enterprises, schools, institutions, families, players, CCProxy can be your first choice to build proxy servers in order to realize the shared Internet access and monitoring of Internet access behaviors.

The popularity of the Internet brings rich and interesting network resources, but it also brings threats to our online security and privacy. For example, advertisers monitor users' online activities through the Internet; hackers break into users' network connections; malicious attacks on harmful websites are increasingly rampant, and so on. As we all know, using anti-virus software alone is not enough to guarantee our online security now. Therefore, we also need a reliable network security software to provide comprehensive protection.

An IP address is a unique identification number that is used to identify all computers and websites on the Internet. When you connect to the Internet, your computer is assigned an IP address from your local Internet Service Provider (ISP). This is known as a direct connection to the Internet. But sometimes you need to use a fake IP instead, with the anonymity and privacy security in mind, for example:

• Access some websites banning you or your country IPs
• Surf the Internet anonymously
• Send emails anonymously
• Prevent identity theft and intrusion from hackers
• Prevent anyone from seeing your real IP when communicating with them

As is known to all, the serious network blockade and censorship in Mainland China (namely the GFW founded in 1998) has given rise to numerous excellent proxy software from China, including but not limited to: Freegate, UltraSurf, SoftEther VPN, GoAgent, Shadowsocks, cow, Lantern, and more. Among them, Shadowsocks (AKA: 影梭) is a free, open-source, cross-platform, encrypted, and secure small proxy project from China. It uses the SOCKS5 proxy protocol (similar to SSH tunnel), and runs very, very fast. In China and many other countries, it's widely used to break through the GFW-like Internet blockade and censorship and access the disturbed, blocked, or shielded web sites and web services around the world, such as Google, YouTube, FaceBook/Twitter, and more.