Best Practices

Settings and habits that decide whether a proxy setup survives contact with the target: how often to rotate, how long to hold a session, how to pace requests and what to measure.

Covered here: rotating residential proxies, mobile proxies, static ISP proxies.

Best Practices

Cheap datacenter proxies: billing, sizing and where they fit

Cheap datacenter proxies are billed per IP or per GB, but value is set by how many requests return data. How to measure it, size an order and pick the tier.#datacenter proxies#datacenter vs residential#web scraping10 min readBest Practices

Residential proxy pricing: what a GB buys for your job

Residential proxy pricing per GB explained: what a GB buys in pages, traffic per 1,000 pages, expiry and run-outs, and when another tier fits the job better.#residential proxies#proxy pricing#rotating residential proxies10 min readBest Practices

Mobile proxy pricing: what one carrier GB buys

Mobile proxy pricing explained: what a carrier GB buys, how to size a job before you pay, cost per successful request, and which jobs call for mobile IPs.#mobile proxies#4g proxies#cgnat7 min readBest Practices

Proxy performance tuning: concurrency, reuse and timeouts

Proxy performance is mostly decided on the client. Tune connection reuse, concurrency and timeouts in order, then measure each phase with curl.#datacenter proxies#web scraping#rotating residential proxies12 min readBest Practices

ASN targeting vs geo targeting: what each one selects

ASN targeting vs geo targeting: one picks the network behind an IP, the other its place. When each matters, and how to verify an exit's ASN and location.#geo targeting#asn reputation#residential proxies9 min readBest Practices

Geo targeted proxies: country, region or city level

Geo targeted proxies filter exits by country, region or city. How accurate each level is, why city pools run thin, and when country targeting is enough.#residential proxies#geo targeting#rotating residential proxies11 min readBest Practices

Proxy DNS leak test: check and fix it in your own client

A proxy DNS leak test you run through your own client: where curl, requests, httpx, Playwright and Node resolve names, what a leak exposes, and each fix.#proxy detection#residential proxies#rotating residential proxies12 min readBest Practices

Why proxies trigger captchas, and what reduces them

Why proxies trigger captchas: the risk score behind each challenge, the inputs your proxy tier changes, and what a legitimate client can fix first.#proxy detection#residential proxies#sticky sessions12 min readBest Practices

Proxy detected error: what it means and how to fix it

Proxy detected means a site flagged your IP or your client. What each message means, an eight-check triage, and which causes a new proxy tier actually fixes.#proxy detection#residential proxies#asn reputation13 min read