Datacenter proxies
Addresses hosted in datacenters. The shortest and most predictable route to a target — and since every type bills at the same rate, the first thing to try rather than the budget option.
Pick this when
Nothing is blocking you yet, or a predictable round trip matters more than provenance.
- Address belongs to
- A hosting provider
- Published as hosting
- Yes — the ranges are catalogued and trivial to match
- Latency
- The lowest and most consistent of the three IP classes
- UDP over SOCKS5
- Not available here — residential and mobile only
How it works
A datacenter IP belongs to a hosting provider rather than a consumer ISP. The route is short and well-provisioned, so latency is low and consistent.
Datacenter ranges are published and widely catalogued, which means a site that wants to identify them can. Whether that matters depends entirely on the target.
For a large share of real collection work it does not matter at all. On those targets, routing through a household line instead buys you nothing and costs you a slower, less predictable round trip.
How it differs
Against its nearest neighbours, by name. If one of these describes your situation better, the row is a link.
Where it fits
Use it for
- High-volume collection, where a short well-provisioned route finishes the job sooner
- Targets that do not filter on IP class — public data, documentation, APIs, many marketplaces
- Latency-sensitive work where a predictable round trip matters more than IP provenance
- The first test against any new target, to find out whether you need anything else at all
Do not use it for
- Sites that classify and reject hosting ranges — you will see blocks immediately rather than intermittently
- Ad verification, where the ad server is specifically trying to detect non-consumer traffic
- Sticky identities that must survive scrutiny, since the IP class itself is the giveaway
- UDP over SOCKS5, which the network offers on residential and mobile only
Start here on every new target. It bills at the same rate as everything else, so a failed test costs only the gigabytes it used — and a clean pass means you never needed anything more.
A real connection
One credential pair covers everything. Type, country, rotation and session all travel inside the username, so you never provision a second proxy user to change one of them.
user-USERNAME-type-datacenter-country-us-rotation--1A rotation value of -1 means a fresh address per request. Use it for stateless collection where nothing needs to persist between calls.
Questions
- How do I know if datacenter is enough?
- Run a few hundred requests against your real target and look at the response codes. Clean 200s mean you have no reason to change anything. Blocks that appear immediately and consistently point at IP class; blocks that appear gradually usually point at request rate.
- Is datacenter cheaper than residential here?
- No — and that is deliberate. All three IP classes bill at the same rate against the same balance, so there is nothing to save by staying on datacenter. What you get from it is the route: shorter, better provisioned, and more consistent than a consumer line.
- Can I mix datacenter and residential?
- Yes. Both draw from the same balance, and the type is chosen per connection — so you can route the permissive part of a job through datacenter and escalate only the targets that need it.
The same on every type
These four do not vary by proxy type, so they are worth stating once rather than six times. One balance covers all of it.
- Protocols
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5
- Targeting
- Country, then state or city; ASN by number
- Rotation
- Per request, sticky, or 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 60 minutes
- Rate
- $2/GB, sent plus received
Where this comes up
- Web scrapingMost scraping failures are not IP problems. Work out which one yours is before you change the IP class, because changing it is usually not the fix.
- SERP and SEO monitoringThere is no single ranking for a keyword. There is a ranking in a place, and you have to look from that place to see it.
How the connection behaves
Set alongside the IP class, not instead of it.