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)
The amount of data transferred through a proxy, often the basis for residential-proxy pricing, measured per gigabyte.
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Proxy Authentication
Verifying access to a proxy via username/password or IP whitelisting, ensuring only authorized clients route traffic through it.