Datacenter / Residential

Differences between Datacenter and Residential proxies

Residential Proxies

• Residential proxies are located in residential areas (houses). They are hosted by companies such as Verizon, Vodafone and Virgin generally.

• They have fairly slow speeds because they are located in residential areas, which are far away from servers where the website is hosted. As a result of this the speeds will be a bit slower.

• Residential proxies are not sold in x quantity, you purchase a x GB of storage to use. You then have access to generate unlimited proxies from a range of regions and cities via a dash. However once the GB consumption is over, the proxies are no longer valid. Some providers also make proxies invalid after 1 month.

• Residential proxies work on all sites, however they work best on sites where datacenter proxies don’t work like Footpatrol.

• Typically the pricing is around 10-15€ / GB, however this can vary from provider to provider. Some can be more expensive, I suggest you look on the Twitter success of the proxies before purchasing and double check the sites you want to run are supported by the provider.

• Decent providers are Wild, Ruby, Mars, Ignify.

Datacenter Proxies

• Datacenter proxies are located in datacenters across the world. A datacenter is a dedicated space or building used to house computer systems.

• This is where websites such as Supreme like to host their website. This means that using Datacenter proxies is fast as it close to the location of the site.

• Datacenter proxies are a lot faster than residential proxies.

• They are sold in x quantity rather than x GB. They are more expensive than residential proxies, but they have unlimited bandwidth / usage. Typically 100 DCs is 150-200€.

• Datacenter proxies do no not work on all sites like residential proxies. Most datacenter proxies are banned on sites where there is proxy protection such as: Shopify, Footpatrol and Supreme.

• Some Datacenter proxies work on these sites, just not all providers, it is about finding the right provider.

• Decent providers are Bull, Brutal, Coca, .calibre.