Results for “proxy”

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  Residential Proxy

  A residential proxy routes traffic through an IP address assigned to a real home ISP subscriber, making requests look like organic consumer traffic rather than server traffic.Residential proxies are u

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  Datacenter Proxy

  A datacenter proxy routes traffic through an IP address hosted in a commercial hosting provider — AWS, Hetzner, OVH, DigitalOcean — rather than a residential ISP. Datacenter IPs are fast, cheap, and h

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  Sticky Session

  A sticky session (sometimes called a session-based proxy) holds the same exit IP for a configurable duration — typically 1, 10, or 30 minutes — so a sequence of requests appears to come from the same

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  Rotating Proxy

  A rotating proxy automatically assigns a new IP address from a pool for each request — or at set time intervals — making large-scale web requests appear to come from many different sources. This preve

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  ISP Proxy

  An ISP proxy (also called a static residential proxy) is an IP address assigned by an internet service provider to a data center — combining the speed of datacenter infrastructure with the legitimacy

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  Mobile Proxy

  A mobile proxy routes traffic through real mobile devices connected to carrier networks (3G/4G/5G), giving requests an IP address from a major telecoms provider like Verizon, T-Mobile, or Vodafone. Mo

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  SOCKS5 Proxy

  SOCKS5 is a general-purpose proxy protocol that operates at the network layer, routing any type of TCP or UDP traffic — HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, or custom protocols. Unlike HTTP proxies, which only handle we

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  IP Whitelisting

  IP whitelisting (or allowlisting) is a security control that grants access only to requests from pre-approved IP addresses. Proxy providers offer static IPs or username-based authentication so custome

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  Proxy Pool

  A proxy pool is the full inventory of IP addresses a proxy provider maintains for rotation and customer assignment. Pool size — often measured in millions of IPs for residential providers — determines

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  Concurrent Connections

  Concurrent connections (or concurrency) is the number of simultaneous requests a proxy plan supports at once. Higher concurrency means faster scraping — you can parallelize across many IPs simultaneou

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  Geo-Targeting (Proxy)

  Geo-targeting in the proxy context means selecting IP addresses from a specific country, state/region, or city. Many web targets serve different content by geography — local prices, language versions,

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  Exit Node

  The exit node is the final server or device in a proxy chain whose IP address the target website sees. In a residential proxy network, the exit node is the actual consumer device — a phone or desktop

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  Bandwidth (Proxy)

  In proxy pricing, the volume of data passed through the proxy, billed per gigabyte. Every page you request consumes bandwidth — HTML, images, scripts, fonts and video all count — so a media-heavy site

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  Proxy Authentication

  How a proxy verifies you are entitled to use it. The two standard methods are username-and-password credentials sent with each request, and IP whitelisting, where the provider permits traffic only fro

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  Scraping API

  A managed service that handles the hard parts of web scraping — proxy rotation, browser rendering, CAPTCHA solving, retries and geographic targeting — behind a single API call. You send a URL and rece

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  Concurrency (Scraping)

  The number of requests a scraper runs simultaneously. Higher concurrency finishes large jobs faster but increases the chance of rate limiting, IP bans and CAPTCHAs, and can degrade the target site for