yup, odd. It always worked like a charm. I added a proxy on two VPS that I have and I'm balancing it via DNS.. I will keep it behind the proxy since I prefer to mine on bitminter.com

That's the spirit

Sorry about the connection problems though - that should work.
Will i get banned for running a few hundred vpses mining here?
Connecting a few hundred very slow miners directly to the pool may get you banned, yes, especially if using the getwork protocol. Connecting them all through a single connection using stratum proxy would be possible though. But on the other hand, is it really worth the effort setting up so many incredibly slow machines to mine? I don't think you'll get 3 TH/s - you'd be lucky to get 1 GH/s.