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, static ISP proxies, mobile proxies.
Best PracticesProxy 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.
Best PracticesASN 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.
Best PracticesGeo 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.
Best PracticesProxy 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.
Best PracticesWhy 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.
Best Practices