Datacenter Proxy
A proxy hosted on servers in commercial datacenters, offering high speed and low cost per request.
Datacenter proxies route your traffic through servers hosted in commercial cloud infrastructure - AWS, OVH, Hetzner, and similar providers. The IP addresses come from datacenter IP ranges, not from residential ISPs.
The main advantage is speed. Datacenter servers have gigabit uplinks and low latency. For tasks that require high throughput - downloading thousands of pages, running many parallel workers - datacenter proxies are significantly faster than residential alternatives.
The main limitation is detectability. Most major websites check if an incoming IP belongs to a datacenter ASN. Sites like Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, and social platforms block datacenter IPs aggressively. For these targets, residential proxies are the only option that works reliably.
Datacenter proxies come in two types: shared (multiple users share the same IP pool, cheaper but more likely to encounter already-blocked IPs) and dedicated (you get exclusive IPs not used by anyone else, more expensive but cleaner).
Best use cases: high-volume scraping of sites that do not block datacenter IPs, speed-sensitive tasks where latency matters, automated testing where IP reputation is not a factor, and cost-sensitive operations where residential prices are not justified.
Speed, price and a visible owner
A datacenter proxy runs on a server in a hosting facility, and its address belongs to that facility's network. Everything good about it follows from the hardware: gigabit uplinks, uptime measured in months, latency in tens of milliseconds rather than hundreds.
Everything difficult about it follows from the registry. The address traces back to a hosting company in a public lookup, and sites that filter automation start there because it costs them nothing.
The result is a type that is excellent for targets that do not care and useless for targets that do. There is rarely a middle ground: either the site serves you normally, or it blocks you on the first request regardless of how carefully you behave.
What we sell and how it is priced
Dedicated IPv4 in 41 countries, unmetered traffic, billed per address per month:
Price by order size
1 address $1.80 from 25 $1.25
from 2 $1.50 from 50 $1.20
from 10 $1.35 from 75 $1.15
Ports: 50100 HTTP, 50101 SOCKS5. Terms from one month.
IPv6 alternative: $0.20 per address where the target supports it.- Test one address against your target before buying in volume. A block here is a property of the target, not of the address, and no amount of tuning changes it.
- Tier steps are worth planning around: the tenth address drops every address in the order from $1.50 to $1.35.
- Traffic is unmetered, so this is the cheapest sustained bandwidth we sell by a wide margin.
- Renewal covers a whole order at once. Split large fleets across orders if you may release part of them later.
Datacenter against the alternatives
Cheap does not mean bad
For public data, price monitoring on small shops and internal monitoring, datacenter is the correct answer, not a compromise.
Dedicated does not defeat ASN filtering
Exclusive use protects you from other customers. It does not change what the registry says about the network.
It is not a residential substitute
Sites that filter hosting ranges reject it instantly. Move those targets rather than retrying.
Speed rarely decides anything
Most scraping is limited by the target's tolerance, not by your bandwidth.
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