Sadly for those of us not in America, we cannot watch the streams provided on Hulu and these other sites. So how do we watch Hulu from the UK, Canada, or anywhere outside of the US? We have to use a SSH Tunnel and some other software to trick Hulu into thinking we are from America.. Otherwise we have to wait for the latest episodes of Family Guy or American Dad to finally get relased in our respective countries… Now you may think that it would be easy to simply set up a connection to a proxy server in the United States and trick Hulu into believeing you are in America. This is not the best solution! First, you will find free proxy servers to be slow and unreliable; plus, even if you do find a working proxy, you will not be able to watch the videos on Hulu or One Piece Official, due to the way flash works.
So you are left with two options: purchase or set up a VPN connection on your own webhost/VPS, or use putty to set up a SSH tunnel and ProxyCap to connect to server in America. Thankfully, for me anyway, my Linode is in the United States! Setting up a VPN connection is a lengthy process, you really want to avoid doing so at all costs; whilst a SSH tunnel requires very little work! For those of you without a server to connect to, finding a cheap VPN is your best option for streaming video from these sites.
What you will need to do is: set up a SSH tunnel to your US server, then instruct your web browser to connect via that tunnel. This will work like setting a proxy server, but pointing to localhost/127.0.0.1 (your own computer) Putty will then force all connections to Hulu to go through your US server, and will make it possible to watch Hulu/South Park/One Piece videos.
You should already have SSH on your webhost/server. Most shared web providers will allow SSH access with the same details you use for your FTP settings. This is because SSH is far more secure than FTP; so you should be using it already!
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