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Picking a proxy type

Residential is billed by the gigabyte and rotates. ISP and datacenter are rented by the IP for a term and stay put. Most wasted money in this hobby comes from picking the wrong one, so these guides are about testing the question instead of guessing it.
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Which proxy type do I need? A flowchart for broke people

Four questions that pick between residential, ISP, datacenter and no proxy at all, with what each answer costs at today’s prices.

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Rotating vs sticky: when your IP should change, with code

When a new IP per request helps, when it gets you flagged, and working Python, Scrapy and Node code for both patterns.

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Proxies for price tracking on a side project

A price tracker that runs on cron, reads prices from structured data, skips unchanged pages, and runs on the cheapest proxy plan we sell.

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Residential vs datacenter: stop buying the expensive one

Most people reach for residential proxies when datacenter would have done the job. How to tell which one a target needs, in five minutes.

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