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While Residential Proxies are incredibly powerful, it’s important to understand their specific characteristics to get the best results.

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IP Pool Characteristics

  • Source: Our Residential pool consists of millions of real IP addresses from desktop and laptop devices connected to genuine Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Comcast, Verizon, and Deutsche Telekom.
  • Rotation: The pool is dynamic. IPs can go online and offline as users connect and disconnect their devices. Our system automatically filters out offline IPs to ensure a high success rate.

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Session Stability

  • Sticky Sessions: Residential proxies offer high session stability. A sticky session created with the -session parameter will typically remain stable for its entire duration (default 10 minutes, or up to 24 hours with -stime).
  • Best Practice: For critical, multi-step tasks, always build retry logic into your scraper. While rare, an IP can go offline unexpectedly.
  • High-Anonymity Tasks: Perfect for any target that employs sophisticated anti-bot measures.
  • Geo-Targeted Content: Ideal for scraping content that changes based on the user’s country, state, or city.
  • NOT Recommended for:
    • Tasks requiring extremely low latency (e.g., high-frequency trading). For this, Datacenter proxies are a better fit.
    • Sending emails or activities that could be flagged as spam. This is a violation of our Terms of Service.
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