Use curl to test:
curl -x socks5://myuser:mypassword@your_vps_ip:1080 https://api.ipify.org
If the output is your VPS IP address, you have a working 4Ever proxy. 4ever proxy server
4everproxy is frequently used to bypass local network restrictions. For example, in a school or corporate environment where social media sites are blocked by a firewall, the firewall sees traffic going to 4everproxy.com (which is often unblocked) rather than the blocked social media site. If the output is your VPS IP address,
A 4ever proxy server ultimately reveals a human truth: we want the web to remember. Every broken link, every 404 page, every "this content is no longer available" is a small death. The 4ever proxy is a defiance of that death. But like all defiance of entropy, it comes with a price. The price is not just technical—it is legal, financial, and ethical. The perfect 4ever proxy would be the sum of our collective will to preserve, not just our ability to cache. Delivery: The modified page is sent to the user’s browser
Until that will exists universally, "4ever" remains an aspiration, a name on a GitHub repository, a dream of a web that never forgets. And perhaps that is enough: not the mechanism, but the longing it represents.
Unlike a VPN, which operates at the operating system’s network interface level, 4everproxy operates at the application layer (Layer 7 of the OSI model).